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IRC work features in Good Practice Notes Danida

Updated - Thursday 19 August 2010

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 the 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. PDF file.

They are spread over the five chapters of the book.

Introduction (3 of 22 references)

  • Newborne P, Smet J. Promoting Sanitation and Hygiene to Rural Households: The Experience of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's Regions. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile region; 2008.
  • Evans B, Van der Voorden C, Peal A. Public Financing for Sanitation: The Many Faces of Sanitation Subsidies, A Primer. IRC 2009 September 21, [cited in Source Weekly 2009 Mar 10];1-44.
  • Boesen N, De la Harpe, J . Swaps in Motion: Sector Wide Approaches from an Aid Delivery to a Sector Development Perspective. Reflections from the Joint Learning Programme on Sector Wide Approaches, January 2006 to April 2007. Train4dev net 2007:1-53.

Building political commitment for sanitation in a fragmented institutional landscape (1 of 11 references)

Hooked on sanitation subsidies, section Are hardware subsidies the most effective use of public money? (1 of 16 references)

  • Sijbesma, C. (2008). Sanitation and Hygiene in South Asia: Progress and Challenges. Chapter 25 from Beyond Construction Use by All. IRC, WaterAid and the WSSCC, Delft, The Netherlands

Challenges in supporting hygiene behaviour change (6 of 31 references)

  • Sijbesma C, Christoffers T. The value of hygiene promotion: cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions in developing countries. Health Policy Plan 2009, Aug 24.
  • Cairncross S, Shordt K. It does last! Some findings from a multi-country study of hygiene sustainability. Waterlines 2004;22(3):4-7.
  • Cairncross S, Shordt K, Zacharia S, Govindan BK. What causes sustainable changes in hygiene behaviour? A cross-sectional study from Kerala, India. Soc Sci Med 2005 61(10):2212-20.
  • IRC. Towards Effective Programming for WASH in Schools: A manual on scaling up programmes for water, sanitation and hygiene in schools. Delft, The Netherlands: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre; 2007.
  • Kamminga E, Wegelin Schuringa M. HIV/AIDS and water, sanitation and hygiene. Thematic Overview Paper 2. IRC; 2005.
  • Appleton B, Sijbesma C. Hygiene Promotion. Thematic Overview Paper 1. IRC; 2005 Dec.

Measuring progress in sanitation, (2 of 11 references).

  • Shordt K, van Wijk C, Brikké F, Hesselbarth S (2004). Monitoring millennium development goals for water and sanitation. A review of experiences and challenges. Delft, IRC.
  • N. Mukherjee and C. van Wijk (2003) Guide on the methodology for participatory assessment (MPA).

Most of these IRC publications are freely downloadable from our web page.

This means that 13 of the total of 91 references in this important publication are from IRC books and articles. UN agencies and the Water and Sanitation Program score more references. They also publish more than IRC does.


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