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Stichting Woord en Daad
We know what works
Let us apply our 50 years of experience to the WASH problems you face
DFID Tanzania
We know what works
Let us apply our 50 years of experience to the WASH problems you face
Getting global indicators
A review of metrics for measuring sustainability of rural water services
To get to a set of minimum standardized global indicators we analysed practices by World Bank, international organisations, and governments.
In 2017, IRC, provided inputs into this World Bank assignment led by Aguaconsult.
The assignment included a study to analyse and assess the existing metrics used by the World Bank and other international organisations, and selected national governments, for measuring sustainability and functionality of rural water service delivery.
The above also included a specific review of existing SIASAR systems. SIASAR are the rural water and sanitation information systems, used by the governments of Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
The ultimte objective of this assignment was to identify and develop a minimum set of standardized global indicators that can track functionality, performance and sustainability of water infrastructure and the services they deliver and that can be adopted and used by practiotioners world wide.
Our services included
- Proposal and inception report development
- Review of monitoring systems
- Assessment of SIASAR
- Input into Synthesis Report
The assignment was realised with former IRC colleague Andrés Gil.
In 2017, IRC, provided inputs into this World Bank assignment led by Aguaconsult.
The assignment included a study to analyse and assess the existing metrics used by the World Bank and other international organisations, and selected national governments, for measuring sustainability and functionality of rural water service delivery.
The above also included a specific review of existing SIASAR systems. SIASAR are the rural water and sanitation information systems, used by the governments of Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
The ultimte objective of this assignment was to identify and develop a minimum set of standardized global indicators that can track functionality, performance and sustainability of water infrastructure and the services they deliver and that can be adopted and used by practiotioners world wide.
Our services included
- Proposal and inception report development
- Review of monitoring systems
- Assessment of SIASAR
- Input into Synthesis Report
The assignment was realised with former IRC colleague Andrés Gil.
We know what works
Let us apply our 50 years of experience to the WASH problems you face
Reaching the poor
Uncovering the constraints to water service delivery for the rural poor
In 2016-2017, IRC was tasked to provide inputs into the a study on institutional and political economy constraints to water service delivery for the rural poor in Mozambique.
Objective of the assignment was to produce a paper, including an analysis of the institutional and political economy analysis of rural water services in Mozambique, unpacking the core service delivery problems in rural water in the country.
Our services included
- Literature review
- Desk review of of roles and functions of key rural water stakeholders
- Survey design
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Report development
- Coordination meetings with World Bank team
In 2016-2017, IRC was tasked to provide inputs into the a study on institutional and political economy constraints to water service delivery for the rural poor in Mozambique.
Objective of the assignment was to produce a paper, including an analysis of the institutional and political economy analysis of rural water services in Mozambique, unpacking the core service delivery problems in rural water in the country.
Our services included
- Literature review
- Desk review of of roles and functions of key rural water stakeholders
- Survey design
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Report development
- Coordination meetings with World Bank team
Alana Potter
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Sustainable urban sanitation
A Frisian programme in Mozambique
Applying the sustainability check and FIETS principles of sustainability to evaluate the sustainability of an urban sanitation programme in 8 municipalities in Mozambique.
From 2010-2017, a consortium of Frisian and national water utilities (Water Board Fryslân, Vitens, Province of Fryslân, and the majority of the Frisian Municipalities) implemented the Frisian Urban Sanitation Programme (FUSP) in eight municipalities in Mozambique.
In 2017, IRC was contracted by DGIS to undertake an independent end-of-programme evaluation with a focus on the sustainability of the programme results. The evaluation included four specific objectives:
- Programme effectiveness;
- Programme outcomes and impact;
- Programme sustainability;
- Lessons learned, conclusion and recommendations;
The team used its vast experience in the area of urban sanitaton from Mozambique and across Africa to assess the sustainability of the Programme. For the sustainability componenet of the work, the team utilised the ‘sustainability check framework’ (adapted from UNICEF by IRC) and the FIETS principles of sustainability.
Our services included
- Evaluation framework design
- Desk research
- Stakeholder interviews & focus group discussions.
- Data analysis
- Report development
From 2010-2017, a consortium of Frisian and national water utilities (Water Board Fryslân, Vitens, Province of Fryslân, and the majority of the Frisian Municipalities) implemented the Frisian Urban Sanitation Programme (FUSP) in eight municipalities in Mozambique.
In 2017, IRC was contracted by DGIS to undertake an independent end-of-programme evaluation with a focus on the sustainability of the programme results. The evaluation included four specific objectives:
- Programme effectiveness;
- Programme outcomes and impact;
- Programme sustainability;
- Lessons learned, conclusion and recommendations;
The team used its vast experience in the area of urban sanitaton from Mozambique and across Africa to assess the sustainability of the Programme. For the sustainability componenet of the work, the team utilised the ‘sustainability check framework’ (adapted from UNICEF by IRC) and the FIETS principles of sustainability.
Our services included
- Evaluation framework design
- Desk research
- Stakeholder interviews & focus group discussions.
- Data analysis
- Report development
We know what works
Let us apply our 50 years of experience to the WASH problems you face
Towards strong utilities
Developing a roadmap for an enabling environment of urban water utilities
Key for an urban water utility to provide to its citizens is having a strong enabling environment is. Knowing its strengths and weaknesses is essential.
WaterworX is a public private partnership between all ten Dutch water utilities, their local partners and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. It aims to promote the successful achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6 by providing up to 10 million people with sustainable access to drinking water by 2030.
In 2017-2018, a consortium of IRC and IHE Delft, undertook on request of Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS), the Netherlands, a scoping study into the urban utility enabling environment of six countries (Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Vietnam).
Objective of the study was to:
- provide an analysis of the current strength of the enabling environment for urban water service provision in each country
- provide an analysis of the potential actions to strengthen the enabling environment.
The final study report provided a recommendation with a shortlist of countries where positive interventions in the enabling environment can be undertaken in partnership with Dutch Embassy and WaterworX partners as part of the overall WaterWorX programme.
Our services included
- Desk-research
- Semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, including utilities being established through WaterworX
- 6 country reports and a synthesis report
WaterworX is a public private partnership between all ten Dutch water utilities, their local partners and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands. It aims to promote the successful achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6 by providing up to 10 million people with sustainable access to drinking water by 2030.
In 2017-2018, a consortium of IRC and IHE Delft, undertook on request of Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS), the Netherlands, a scoping study into the urban utility enabling environment of six countries (Colombia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda and Vietnam).
Objective of the study was to:
- provide an analysis of the current strength of the enabling environment for urban water service provision in each country
- provide an analysis of the potential actions to strengthen the enabling environment.
The final study report provided a recommendation with a shortlist of countries where positive interventions in the enabling environment can be undertaken in partnership with Dutch Embassy and WaterworX partners as part of the overall WaterWorX programme.
Our services included
- Desk-research
- Semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, including utilities being established through WaterworX
- 6 country reports and a synthesis report
We know what works
Let us apply our 50 years of experience to the WASH problems you face
Welthungerhilfe
Ruchika Shiva
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Ruchika Shiva holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi and works on water and sanitation projects focussed on urban and rural areas in India. She is also involved with certain IRC initiatives in Bangladesh. She specialises in conducting rapid assessments of community level interventions and focus group discussion facilitation and participatory research. She has 13 years of working with a wide range of organisations from grassroots to international organisations focussing on child rights and WASH.
Ruchika is currently focusing on two projects. She leads the Innovation Hub for Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Solutions activities in India (IHUWASH) on behalf of IRC. Within this project three Indian cities, Faridabad, Mysore and Udaipur collectively work on innovative urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions in their cities. This initiative of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), TARU Leading Edge, IRC and Ennovent is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and aims to improve the performance of urban WASH programmes within a collaborative framework. It works through incubation and acceleration of innovative, scalable, community and market-based solutions using technologies, programmes and service delivery models.
On behalf of IRC, Ruchika is also leading the activities of 'Watershed: empowering citizens' in India. A strategic partnership between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo aiming to build the capacity of civil society organisations for evidence-based lobbying and advocacy on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) issues.
She is fluent in both English and Hindi languages.
Ruchika Shiva holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi and works on water and sanitation projects focussed on urban and rural areas in India. She is also involved with certain IRC initiatives in Bangladesh. She specialises in conducting rapid assessments of community level interventions and focus group discussion facilitation and participatory research. She has 13 years of working with a wide range of organisations from grassroots to international organisations focussing on child rights and WASH.
Ruchika is currently focusing on two projects. She leads the Innovation Hub for Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Solutions activities in India (IHUWASH) on behalf of IRC. Within this project three Indian cities, Faridabad, Mysore and Udaipur collectively work on innovative urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions in their cities. This initiative of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), TARU Leading Edge, IRC and Ennovent is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and aims to improve the performance of urban WASH programmes within a collaborative framework. It works through incubation and acceleration of innovative, scalable, community and market-based solutions using technologies, programmes and service delivery models.
On behalf of IRC, Ruchika is also leading the activities of 'Watershed: empowering citizens' in India. A strategic partnership between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo aiming to build the capacity of civil society organisations for evidence-based lobbying and advocacy on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) issues.
She is fluent in both English and Hindi languages.
I believe water and sanitation services are one of the core facilitating factors for women and children’s (especially girls) mobility, in their homes, public places and in institutions. We need to ensure these are available, functional and safe for lot of other development efforts to work!Ruchika Shiva
This is the intro text that we really like on the team member page but not on the overall team page - can you disable it appearing also on the overall team page
Ruchika Shiva holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Delhi and works on water and sanitation projects focussed on urban and rural areas in India. She is also involved with certain IRC initiatives in Bangladesh. She specialises in conducting rapid assessments of community level interventions and focus group discussion facilitation and participatory research. She has 13 years of working with a wide range of organisations from grassroots to international organisations focussing on child rights and WASH.
Ruchika is currently focusing on two projects. She leads the Innovation Hub for Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Solutions activities in India (IHUWASH) on behalf of IRC. Within this project three Indian cities, Faridabad, Mysore and Udaipur collectively work on innovative urban water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions in their cities. This initiative of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), TARU Leading Edge, IRC and Ennovent is supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and aims to improve the performance of urban WASH programmes within a collaborative framework. It works through incubation and acceleration of innovative, scalable, community and market-based solutions using technologies, programmes and service delivery models.
On behalf of IRC, Ruchika is also leading the activities of 'Watershed: empowering citizens' in India. A strategic partnership between the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and IRC, Simavi, Wetlands International and Akvo aiming to build the capacity of civil society organisations for evidence-based lobbying and advocacy on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and integrated water resource management (IWRM) issues.
She is fluent in both English and Hindi languages.
I believe water and sanitation services are one of the core facilitating factors for women and children’s (especially girls) mobility, in their homes, public places and in institutions. We need to ensure these are available, functional and safe for lot of other development efforts to work!Ruchika Shiva
Vera van der Grift
Vera is a communications expert with ample working experience in an international environment and working with multi-disciplinary teams across the globe. She works as the lead for IRC's global communications and outreach. Vera amplifies the impact of the critical work of IRC and its partners, communicating, raising awareness, engagement and support. She does this through proactive communications strategies and policies; communications content development, coordination and delivery; IRC’s sector information management; collaboration with press and engagement with the media; regular stakeholder mapping; managing ‘the sector communications unit’ and third party content suppliers and coordinating with other sections in the organisation and also provides project management for the communications team and oversees the communications interns.
Compelled to grow and shape what is possible, Vera brings over ten years of experience informing, interacting and engaging stakeholder perspectives. She has gained experiences in working with both traditional and new media, information management and communication technologies and development issues. She comes to IRC by way of the commercial and development sectors. At Bernard van Leer Foundation, Vera oversaw the corporate journalist fellowship programme, she also had the responsibility for conceptualising, producing and executing social media strategies for the organisation. Prior to Bernard van Leer Foundation, Vera was working with Save the Children, Norway, as the communications and information programme officer and before that for a commercial television station as a reporter / producer.
Vera has a master’s degree in journalism from the Moscow State University, Moscow, and a post graduate degree in electronic information management from the Robert Gordon University. She has also completed a leadership and project management training. Ver is an active outdoors enthusiast and consciously keeps life vibrant through exploring new experiences and challenges.
Vera is a communications expert with ample working experience in an international environment and working with multi-disciplinary teams across the globe. She works as the lead for IRC's global communications and outreach. Vera amplifies the impact of the critical work of IRC and its partners, communicating, raising awareness, engagement and support. She does this through proactive communications strategies and policies; communications content development, coordination and delivery; IRC’s sector information management; collaboration with press and engagement with the media; regular stakeholder mapping; managing ‘the sector communications unit’ and third party content suppliers and coordinating with other sections in the organisation and also provides project management for the communications team and oversees the communications interns.
Compelled to grow and shape what is possible, Vera brings over ten years of experience informing, interacting and engaging stakeholder perspectives. She has gained experiences in working with both traditional and new media, information management and communication technologies and development issues. She comes to IRC by way of the commercial and development sectors. At Bernard van Leer Foundation, Vera oversaw the corporate journalist fellowship programme, she also had the responsibility for conceptualising, producing and executing social media strategies for the organisation. Prior to Bernard van Leer Foundation, Vera was working with Save the Children, Norway, as the communications and information programme officer and before that for a commercial television station as a reporter / producer.
Vera has a master’s degree in journalism from the Moscow State University, Moscow, and a post graduate degree in electronic information management from the Robert Gordon University. She has also completed a leadership and project management training. Ver is an active outdoors enthusiast and consciously keeps life vibrant through exploring new experiences and challenges.
I particularly like the idea of a collaborating team effort, in which the pooling of creative ideas and resources craft a vision capable of capturing the attention of our audiencesVera van der Grift
Vera is a communications expert with ample working experience in an international environment and working with multi-disciplinary teams across the globe. She works as the lead for IRC's global communications and outreach. Vera amplifies the impact of the critical work of IRC and its partners, communicating, raising awareness, engagement and support. She does this through proactive communications strategies and policies; communications content development, coordination and delivery; IRC’s sector information management; collaboration with press and engagement with the media; regular stakeholder mapping; managing ‘the sector communications unit’ and third party content suppliers and coordinating with other sections in the organisation and also provides project management for the communications team and oversees the communications interns.
Compelled to grow and shape what is possible, Vera brings over ten years of experience informing, interacting and engaging stakeholder perspectives. She has gained experiences in working with both traditional and new media, information management and communication technologies and development issues. She comes to IRC by way of the commercial and development sectors. At Bernard van Leer Foundation, Vera oversaw the corporate journalist fellowship programme, she also had the responsibility for conceptualising, producing and executing social media strategies for the organisation. Prior to Bernard van Leer Foundation, Vera was working with Save the Children, Norway, as the communications and information programme officer and before that for a commercial television station as a reporter / producer.
Vera has a master’s degree in journalism from the Moscow State University, Moscow, and a post graduate degree in electronic information management from the Robert Gordon University. She has also completed a leadership and project management training. Ver is an active outdoors enthusiast and consciously keeps life vibrant through exploring new experiences and challenges.
I particularly like the idea of a collaborating team effort, in which the pooling of creative ideas and resources craft a vision capable of capturing the attention of our audiencesVera van der Grift