Listen to this podcast with Namukolo Covic on the need to integrate WASH and nutrition interventions.

Namukolo Covic is the President of the African Nutrition Society and the Director General's Representative to Ethiopia for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), and the CGIAR Regional Director for East and Southern Africa. 

Namukolo Covic is well known in the nutrition field and, although currently based in Ethiopia, she is originally from South Africa and has worked in many countries. She is an avid advocate for making food production and consumption processes more sustainable, equitable, and resilient. 

In this episode, Namukolo Covic talks about key opportunities for integrating WASH and nutrition to create healthier, more resilient communities. She reflects on:
•	How inadequate WASH practices affect nutritional outcomes in vulnerable populations 
•	What is needed to accelerate impact at scale in the nutrition space
•	Advice for the next generation of practitioners and changemakers working at the intersection of WASH and nutrition

This podcast was recorded for the online course 'WASH and Nutrition Nexus: The basics'.

The objective of the online course is to provide knowledge and skills on practical tools to create better more impactful integrated interventions together.

The online course has been created by IRC in collaboration with the Max Foundation, the Healthy Consortium Ethiopia, Plan International, the Seqota Declaration Programme Ethiopia, the Government of Ethiopia and the Right2Grow.

To access this free course of 2.5 hours go to: www.washsystemsacademy.org

Why integration of WASH and nutrition matters

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.

his is HotSpots Podcast Episode 12.

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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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.

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