What does systems strengthening mean?

In this six-minute podcast, Patrick Moriarty, CEO of IRC, discusses systems thinking for WASH service delivery.

As Albert Einstein once said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." For WASH, the transition to holistic systems-strengthening approaches reflects a new way of thinking that recognizes the real world's complexity and fundamentally interconnected nature.

This podcast was recorded for the online course 'Introducing water, sanitation and hygiene systems strengthening'.

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What is systems thinking?

In July, the World Health Organization and UNICEF published the first assessment of drinking water and sanitation service under the sustainable development goals.

Circle of Blue reporter Brett Walton spoke with Catarina Fonseca, head of the international and innovation program at IRC, a water and sanitation organization, about the report's strengthens and weaknesses as well as the successes and failures that it documents. Fonseca notes that though more people have gained access to water in recent years, those gains are unevenly distributed.

"There has been progress, but the progress is not fast enough, especially on sanitation, to achieve the sustainable development goals," she says.

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UN Report Sets New Baseline for Drinking Water and Sanitation

IRC's podcast series WASH Talk shares ideas on changes the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector has to make in order to contribute to achieving universal access by 2030. To do so speakers from all over the world are given a voice in this podcast series. Find out more on www.ircwash.org/washtalk.

In this seventh episode host Andy Narracott band co-host Patrick Moriarty (IRC's CEO) talk with Sophie Tremolet from the World Bank about the need for blenden finance. This is essential to make progress to reach universal access and leave no one behind (Sustainable Development Goal 6). Read more on this topic and the speakers: https://www.ircwash.org/news/wash-talk-podcast-blended-finance.
Read the Show Notes here - https://www.ircwash.org/sites/default/files/show_notesep07.pdf

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WASH Talk EP07 - Blended Finance with Sophie Tremolet

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IRC is an international think-and-do tank that works with governments, NGOs, entrepreneurs and people around the world to find long-term solutions to the global crisis in water, sanitation and hygiene services. At the heart of its mission is the aim to move from short-term interventions to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services.  

With over 50 years of experience, IRC runs projects in more than 25 countries and large-scale programmes in seven focus countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

What is systems thinking?

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