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Le projet EcoSan UE3, fruit du partenariat entre le Centre régional pour l'eau potable et l'assainissement (CREPA) et l'Union européenne (UE), tire à sa fin. Read more...
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 a session was being held on financing WASH services - "Making services last forever: financing sanitation and hygiene behaviour change in low income areas". Read more...
Noted South African politician, lawyer and human rights activist, Prof. Kader Asmal, who served as the country's first post-apartheid Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry from 1994-1999, passed away on 21 June 2011. Read more...
Sustain and Study behaviour change; to determine if the behaviour has been sustained to the point of it being habitual Read more...
Motivation to practice, e.g. a sense of disgust, to be modern, to be like others, a better life for children Read more...
Ability to practice, e.g. whether an individual possesses the skills, equipment and time. Read more...
Opportunities existing in the external environment to practice the behaviour, e.g. soap and water available, gender relations allow the practice. Ensure that there is opportunity to change behaviour Read more...
Focus practices and focus groups; know your focus groups and prioritise practices and avoid message overload Read more...
The third Africa Conference on Hygiene and Sanitation (AfricaSan3) will be held on 19-22 July 2011 in Kigali, Rwanda. WASHCost will be hosting informative seminars on life-cycle costing at the Serena Hotel. Read more...
A snapshot of the case studies on good hygiene promotion: discover what you would like to read. Read more...
The objective of the compilation on good hygiene practices is to strengthen the capacity of organisations to design and deliver effective hygiene promotion programmes leading to the improved health of communities. Read more...
On 21 June 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon officially launched the “Sustainable Sanitation: Five-Year Drive to 2015 (5YD)”, a push to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of improving global sanitation by 2015. Read more...
Submit your cutting edge cases of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) communications in cities, peri-urban areas and informal settlements for potential presentation on our blog and at a side-event entitled “ Striking WASH Communication: Urban Water in Depth ”, 23 August 2011 at the World Water... Read more...
People expect water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to last. However, despite increasing WASH coverage, there is also evidence of high rates of system failure and ‘slippage’, where some users and communities fall back to a lower level of service or have to revert to unsafe and unreliable... Read more...
Depuis le dimanche 15 mai 2011, les habitants des villes de Koupéla et de Pouytenga n’arrivent pas à s’approvisionner en eau potable. Le manque d’eau est si criard qu’ils sont obligés de se tourner vers les forages des quartiers périphériques et des villages environnants. Si certains imputent cette... Read more...
At a capacity building workshop for members of the Ghana Watsan Journalists' Network (GWJN), an organization, which focuses on water, sanitation and hygiene, Mr Minta Aboagye, outgoing Director (Water), Ministry of Water Resource, Works and Housing (MWRWH), has said that there are plans to... Read more...
Report from second review meeting on sustainable WASH. Read more...
In 2010, there were two important regional meetings held resulting in consensus from stakeholders and two joint commitments; the Nepalgunj Commitment and the Surkhet Declaration. The meetings tried to address improved coordination, harmonisation and local resource mobilisation (allocation of 10% to... Read more...
Près de 80% des nappes phréatiques françaises affichaient un niveau inférieur à la normale au 1er juin, selon un bulletin publié vendredi par le Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM). Si la pluie a soulagé les cultures ces dernières … Read more...
L’ex-Directeur Général du Fonds monétaire international (FMI), Michel Camdessus, a plaidé mardi à Lisbonne (Portugal) pour un accroissement substantiel des investissements dans le domaine de l’eau et de l’assainissement. L’ex- Directeur général du FMI estime qu’il faudra consacrer 50 milliards de … Read more...
