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What will the international Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector look like in, let us say, 10 years from now? Will access to sanitation still lag behind water supply, or will it evolve into a stand-alone sub-sector with its own set of dedicated institutions and organisations? Will aid... Read more...
“I feel sorry that you are leaving tomorrow. My session with you at the IRC stand on the first day, how good you are communicating and also how you did the interviews in the field today have been excellent training for me". Read more...
The Country Coordinator for WASHCost Project Ghana, Mr. Alexander Obuobisa-Darko, has reiterated the need for the proper understanding of the cost of providing WASH services for planning and budgeting of operations, maintenance and upgrading to ensure sustainability of WASH services. Read more...
The government's subsidy policy for sanitation needs to be more effective and more money should be allocated if Bangladesh is to meet is target of sanitation for all' by 2013, experts say. This is the conclusion of a study conducted among 21,121 households by the Human Development Research Centre... Read more...
Triple-S revived Lira DWSCC in October 2010 Read more...
Lira District WASH actors have been without a coordination structure since for over a year. This void was created in 2009 when UNICEF closed its office in Lira District. Since 2005, UNICEF had been coordinating the WASH cluster in Lira district, which comprised mainly humanitarian agencies... Read more...
The United Arabe Emirates intensified its medical efforts to contain the spread of an outbreak of cholera as an threatened tens of thousands of people fleeing the famine-hit areas of Somalia to pack into the crowded camps in the country's capital, Mogadishu. Several people have died from suspected... Read more...
A drought in southwest China has left over two million people short of drinking water, the government said. Guizhou province has been under the grip of a drought since early July 2011. Rainfall last month was 70 percent less than average, according to new agency Xinhua. The drought has affected... Read more...
Le Global Water Initiative (GWI) Afrique de l’Ouest publie un guide pas à pas d’auto-constru ction de latrines familiales à simple fosse. Le guide a été conçu pour servir d’assistance technique aux familles en Afrique de l’Ouest ayant pris la décision de construire leur latrine. Il est présenté de... Read more...
Permettez-moi, avant de partager l’histoire de notre communauté, de me présenter. Je m’appelle Chedorlaomer Villa, j’ai 34 ans et je réside à Maelstrom, une petite ville de Pance à Cali, en Colombie. Je suis plombier et, à ce titre,en charge de la maintenance de la station d’approvisionnement en... Read more...
Later on 22 July 2011 we visit two ecological toilet blocks on the Kigali highway that turn out to be not hygienic at all. Read more...
When we enter the Rwangala village to find out how the Community Hygiene Club works in practice we see a large group of women in white WaterAid T-shirts wave goodbye to a leaving bus with participants from the AfricaSan 3 Conference in July 2011. Read more...
An Indian e-toilet manufacturer has partnered with a local animation institute to create hygiene promotion cartoons for schools. Read more...
We earlier reported on the vote of Berlin’s citizens demanding the disclosure of contracts related to the partial privatization of the city’s water supply utility. A referendum on this issue was held last February. So what happened after the referendum and the publication of so-far undisclosed... Read more...
On the Friday 22 July 2011 field visit in Rwanda we are looking at two plastic, injection moulded Mobilet toilet blocks with five seats each for boys and girls at the Kicukiro Technical Training Centre funded by South Korea, just outside Kigali. The toilets have been supplied in May 2010 by the... Read more...
Cities in Latin America face a double challenge in environmental sanitation, of both providing access to basic water supply and sanitation for those currently lacking that, and improving the collection and treatment of wastewater and solid waste. Governance is a crucial factor affecting the way in... Read more...
List of papers and authors This list contains the titles (translated into Englih) of the papers and their authors of the seminar on sanitation and governance, organised by IRC together with RRAS-CA Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento de Centro-America) and RAS-ES ( Red de Agua y Saneamiento de El... Read more...
In 2009 gender specialists were asked to review the current Indonesia Sanitation Sector Development Program (ISSDP) activities. On the basis of these findings a gender strategy was developed for inclusion in the sanitation awareness campaigns and city sanitation strategies in Indonesia. Read more...
"From the ruins of years of war and genocide, Rwanda has moved to improve household access to hygienic sanitation facilities faster than in any country in Sub-Saharan Africa". Read more...
La Note préparatoire sur la Cartographiede l’Appui de l’UE en faveur de l’assainissement en Afrique découle d’une étude complète réalisée par WEDC et dont l’objectif est de disposer d’un aperçu global du niveau d’implication et d’engagement des Etats membres de … Read more...
