IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Access to safe and adequate water is recognised as one of the most fundamental of human needs. The development of sustainable capacities to meet these needs in developing countries is one of the key challenges for the water sector as a whole.

Since its foundation in 1968, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has facilitated the sharing, promotion and use of knowledge so that governments, professionals and organisations can better support poor men, women and children in developing countries to obtain water and sanitation services they will use and maintain.

The recent past has seen a shift in IRC's operations, resulting in a new direction for IRC as an organisation centred on the dissemination of knowledge and the building of capacity in partner organisations. In view of its vision, mission, strengths and weaknesses, IRC's ambition is to build on its past achievements to become a more effective and focused knowledge dissemination and capacity building organisation.

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Key staff involved in the PRODWAT thematic group include Patrick Moriarty, John Butterworth, and Stef Smits.