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Despite having considerable solar and wind potential, renewable energy makes a minimal contribution to power generation across most of the MENA region, and in particular in the GCC where traditionally low cost oil and gas production has stifled its development. According to the latest report by... Read more...
In a recent interview with MediaGlobal from New York Political motivation in sub-Saharan Africa essential for reaching sanitation MDGs Dick de Jong and IRC were quoted several times. MediaGlobal also linked to two of the four stories Dick wrote after the AfricaSan 3 conference in Kigali and... Read more...
IRC’s Bettie Westerhof has received nearly 50 thank you emails from IRC WASH Library database users in the first nine months of 2011. Read more...
Guide d’introduction au marketing de l’assainissement, 2011. Une Boîte à outils, sous forme imprimée et en ligne, de Jacqueline Devine et Craig Kullmann, Programme pour l’eau et l’assainissement (WSP). Téléchargez la version intégrale (PDF-English) et consultez la Boîte à outils … Read more...
Work from Christine Sijbesma and co-authors on pocket voting for participation from a 2002 publication Methodology for Participatory Assessments with communities, institutions and policy makers (WSP) has been used by two new resource guides in 2011. Read more...
BRAC has been implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in 150 sub-districts of Bangladesh with a focus of achieving MDG 7; target 10 with support from the Government of the Netherlands since 2006. Read more...
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools is globally recognized as a key intervention to promote children’s right to health and clean environment and to influence a generational change in hygiene behaviours and attitudes. PLAN Uganda through a partnership with NETWAS Uganda conducted a... Read more...
The Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) in Ghana is benefitting from the second phase of the Southern Youth Zone programme (SYZP) organized by IRC. The programme officer, Ms. Basilia Nanbigne, has been selected to represent Ghana in this programme, their training started in... Read more...
Du 5 au 8 décembre prochain, Ouagadougou la capitale du Burkina Faso abrite une importante rencontre sur le Thème « financement de l’eau et de l’assainissement pour tous en Afrique » à l’initiative du Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA). … Read more...
Le Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA) vient d’être lauréat du Certificat des bonnes pratiques 2011 du Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains (UN -Habitat). Le certificat des bonnes pratiques a été décerné pour la première fois cette année en... Read more...
African ministers have committed to do what they can ‘in our own back yard’ by using local finance for sanitation rather than depend on hand-outs. They were following the advice of President Kagame of Rwanda who opened AfricaSan 3, the … Read more...
«D’ici un an et plus tard, le partenariat entre Charity Water et le CREPA permettra non seulement de fournir de l’eau potable à une grande majorité de personnes, mais fournira également un cadre de vie assaini a plusieurs ménages en vue de l’atteinte des OMD. Avec le CREPA nous pensons pouvoir... Read more...
The UN's latest Millennium Development Goals Report notes that progress in sanitation has largely bypassed the poor while rural populations remain disadvantaged. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2049 to provide 77 per cent of the global population with improved sanitation. Read more...
The WASH Process Documentation Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda in September 2011, was successful in encouraging participants to become more enthusiastic about process documentation and its benefits. Process Documentation provides a systematic way to capture what happens in a process of change, and... Read more...
Each issue of WASHplus Weekly highlights new resources and publications on a wide range of topics related to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and indoor air quality (IAQ). Read more...
Four young professionals from Southern partners from Bangladesh, Ghana, Guatemala, and Uganda started training for one month at IRC, as part of the second round of the PSO-funded Southern Youth Zone Programme from 2010 to 2012. Read more...
This daily newsletter brings you the latest news items, videos and publications spotted by sanitation experts. Read more...
Le village de Bagmnini dispose depuis le 21 août 2011, d’un forage, grâce au soutien du Lions club Ouaga étoile. Le président du club, Silmiraogo Nabalma, a situé cette œuvre dans la logique du lionnisme et des Lions qui volent toujours au secours des plus démunis. L’’idée de la construction du... Read more...
A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU) has developed a human-powered drill that can reach a depth of up to 75 metres at 10% to 20% the cost of a traditional motorized well rig. A prototype of the “Village Drill” cost around US$ 4,000 (excluding labour) to make in the USA... Read more...
A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU) has developed a human-powered drill that can reach a depth of up to 75 metres at 10% to 20% the cost of a traditional motorized well rig. A prototype of … Read more...
