Themes and Projects feedback
IRC materials used in systematic review of evidence of impact of separate toilets for girls
16 Jan 12
IRC materials and web sites on WASH in Schools were used in an academic study of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Institute of Education. What impact does the provision of separate toilets for girls at school have on their primary and secondary school enrolment, attendance and completion? A systematic review of the evidence is the title of a collaborative project of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Institute of Education, with guidance by Save the Children USA, UNICEF & Care International.
“RiPPLE has generated an impressive body of knowledge for policymakers and practitioners”
07 Dec 11
“RiPPLE has generated an impressive body of knowledge for policymakers and practitioners, covering issues around water supply options and choices, sustainability, monitoring, financing and the impacts of climate change, to name but a few”, Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region ((RiPPLE) Director Roger Calow says in Beyond the Water Point, Linking research, policy and practice for sustainable water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia.
Kenya: School hand washing and water treatment programme not sustained
24 Nov 11
In Nyanza Province, Kenya, a sustainability evaluation of 55 pilot primary schools 2.5 years after the implementation of the Safe Water System (SWS) intervention revealed that programme activities were not successfully sustained in any of the schools visited. The most common criterion met was drinking water provision. The authors used five IRC books and articles.
Good review of “Climbing the Water Ladder” book in Waterlines 30th anniversary issue
24 Nov 11
The fact that the multiple-use water services (MUS) approach focuses on the specific needs of water users and aims to improve wellbeing and socio-economic status makes it a better tool for poverty alleviation than integrated water resources management (IWRM). This is one of the observations of Phillipa Kanyoka from the University of Pretoria in her review of our Climbing the Water Ladder book from the 30th anniversary issue of Waterlines, Vol 30, Nr 4, October 2011.
$25 can’t give someone clean water for life
14 Nov 11
IRC's Nick Dickinson and John Sauer from Water for People wrote a joint article about life-cycle costing that has been published in the Huffington Post.
Assessing sanitation service levels article published in Sanitation Matters
26 Oct 11
Assessing Sanitation Service levels: A New Approach is the article by Alana Potter, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, that was published in: Sanitation Matters, Issue 2, 2011.
Two sanitation articles make it into glossy US Global Water Issues book
21 Oct 11
Two articles on sanitation written by Dick de Jong including one with Ghana journalist Harriette Naa Lamiley Bentil made it into a glossy Global Water Issues book published in the USA Department of State, International Information Program in July 2011,
Kerala: women masons helped accountability but state interference hinders
21 Oct 11
The World Bank Institute has published online an earlier Christine Sijbesma, Suma Mathew, and K. Balachandra Kurup case study Community-Managed Sanitation in Kerala, India: Tools to Promote Governance and Improve Health. WBI did this in a 12- page analysis dated January 2010 of IRC and SEUF work in Kerala since 1998 in its Programme on Improving Governance in the Water Sector through Social Accountability.
Christine Sijbesma wrote innovative profile on gender and sanitation in Kerala for World Bank Institute
20 Oct 11
IRC’s Christine Sijbesma wrote an innovative profile on gender and sanitation in Kerala for the World Bank Institute. Gender equity strategies must be explicitly developed, tested, and documented during the learning phase if they are to be mainstreamed during scale-up. This is needed for organizational development and for training staff in other organizations who have not gone through the learning process.
IRC's Triple-S research findings valuable for World Bank
20 Oct 11
"For IRC to come and present their findings on the rural water sector is very valuable for us", says Dr Junaid Ahmad of the World Bank. He commented on the presentation on 'Lessons for Rural Water Supply: Sustainable Services at Scale' by Patrick Moriarty (IRC) and Harold Lockwood (Aquaconsult) at the World Bank headquarters on 27 September 2011.
