Publications use
Use and impact of IRC publications
Webinar uses three gender resources in November 2011
06 Dec 11
Water Aid Australia’s Inclusive WASH programme used three IRC resources on gender in water, sanitation and hygiene in its live webinar on Gender: Women and Girls from 9 to 18 November 2011. A webinar is a seminar that takes place online. Two of these are from our earlier work by Christine Sijbesma and Dick de Jong for the Gender and Water Alliance.
Pocket voting for participation tool used in two recent resource guides
05 Oct 11
Work from Christine Sijbesma and co-authors on pocket voting for participation from a 2002 publication Methodology for Participatory Assessments with communities, institutions and policy makers (WSP) has been used by two new resource guides in 2011.
Feedback from Nigeria: 2,000 trainees benefitted from simplified manual
23 Feb 11
Feedback from Nigeria showed that 2,000 trainees benefitted from use of their simplified manual, largely based on an IRC manual on community WASH management, for a one-week training of communities in Nigeria in 2010.
IRC work features in Good Practice Notes Danida
11 Aug 10
Thirteen peer reviewed publications and articles from IRC and partners on Sector Wide Approaches sanitation and hygiene, advocacy and communication, hygiene promotion, sustainable hygiene behaviours, WASH in Schools, HIV/AIDS and WASH, Monitoring MDGs for WASH, and Guide on the methodology for participatory assessment feature in ‘Reaching the MDG target for sanitation in Africa – A call for realism’, a recent publication from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida, Denmark.
“Resource book on school sanitation very useful for my research"
11 Aug 10
I read your resource book ‘School Sanitation and Hygiene Education – India’, which is written by Marielle Snell, Sunita Ganguly and Kathleen Shordt. This book is not only useful for those who are engaged in the Total Sanitation Programme in India, but also for students and researchers who are engaged in research work in various universities in India.
IRC electronic publications on CD-ROM: helpful move
29 Apr 10
The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has just published a library of all its e-publications in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese (up to this month); it’s also available on a CD-ROM. This is a really helpful move, especially as IRC publications are of such high quality.
Using IRC manual for one-week training of communities in Nigeria
27 Nov 09
Priscilla M. Achakpa from Nigeria has used half the content of one of the IRC manuals on community water management for a simplified manual that the Women Environmental Programme is using in one-week training programmes for the communities.
IRC work featuring in microfinance market study
28 Aug 09
IRC’s Catarina Fonseca and Stef Smits and nine publications from IRC and partners are featuring in: Assessing Micro finance for Water and Sanitation – Exploring opportunities for sustainable scaling up, a study by Meera Mehta for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Two IRC titles feature in a new book on water and culture
20 Mar 09
IRC contributions to the recently published book ‘Water, a way of life - Sustainable Water Management in a Cultural Context’ have included advice and books, which the authors Lida Schewald–van der Kley and Linda Reijerkerk have used.
Eldis uses IRC information sources on its site
18 Feb 09
Conflict mediation in the water and sanitation sector: and how to reach solutions, by J.T. Visscher; published by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, 2008 is the most recent of our titles being flagged on the Eldis web site.
