Simavi’s Senior WASH programme officer, Tim Sutton, will be attending the World Water Week in Stockholm. The annual event is hosted by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), and the theme this year is “Water and Waste – Reduce and Reuse”. In a...

In the process of writing the Multi-annual Country Strategies: does the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs consider the WASH strategy? While most people in the political centre in the Netherlands, The Hague, were on their summer leave, some policy officers from the...

An IRC Uganda / Watershed video set in Rwenzori Region. In a bid to demonstrate the importance and applicability of integrating water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) with integrated water resources management (IWRM), IRC Uganda has produced a twelve-minute...

“If you do not yield to anyone’s advice, the world will teach you the lessons it wants you to learn,” my mother always said. Often, this was a cautionary tale and it usually came after realizing that no matter what she said or did, you would not...

Achieving sustainable WASH services requires problem-based approaches focusing on a specific watershed or municipality. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) will require closer links between WASH and integrated water resources management (IWRM). How...

Linking WASH and IWRM, as demanded by SDG 6, is essential but hard. With pragmatism and a problem based approach it can be done. In 2000 I joined IRC in the final stages of a PhD based on four years field research in rural Zimbabwe, the subject of the research:...

Meeting Sustainable Development Goal 6 requires solutions that focus on integrated rather than sectoral approaches. Traditionally water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and environmental organisations work at different scales. But to meet Sustainable Development Goal...

Strong developments in advocacy practices for water and sanitation for all Representatives of African collectives in the water and sanitation sector From 24th to 26th January 2017, representatives of African collectives in the water and sanitation sector, from 9...

Greg Koch of The Coca-Cola Company highlights the key findings of research on integration of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and freshwater conservation.

Every morning at four o’clock, thousands of men wake up to go fishing in Loktak Lake. When they return home in the early afternoon, their wives take the fish to the market. If the fishermen or their wives fall ill, or if there is less fish to catch, they earn...

Simavi’s Public Affairs Officer WASH Roel Blesgraaf blogs about the events during the 6th Africa Water Week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 18-22 July 2016. In this blog, he takes particular notice of hand washing facilities at all breaks, aside from water and...

By Lydia Mirembe (IRC Uganda) Clear calls for increased investment in water and sanitation during the Africa Water Week. The 6th Africa Water Week (AWW6) opened on Monday 18th July, with reaffirmation that the continent could not attain meaningful development...