Emerging lessons from the use of building blocks for sustainable un-sewered urban sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa. Read more...
What about looking deep into on-going WASH programmes and analysing their strengths and weaknesses? What about designing innovative ways of measuring the effectiveness of these approaches? And what about testing adjustments to their activities to make the interventions even more effective? Read more...
More funding for a local government-led approach introduced in 2008 by SNV and IRC to scale up sanitation from community to district level. Read more...
The Multi-country synthesis report brings together the insights from the 13 Triple-S country studies to identify trends in rural water supply,... Read more...
A question from the floor at a Rockefeller Foundation meeting raised some interesting thoughts about MUS vs MDGs. Read more...
Case studies from countries in the Pan-Africa programme. Read more...
While the problem of poor sustainability - and the threat it poses to achieving the MDGs - may be well recognised, concrete steps for addressing it are considerably less clear. Triple-S, an IRC initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently completed a 13-country study to... Read more...
This publication considers the issue of integrated management of water resources in five African countries (Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana and Lesotho... Read more...
The purpose of this paper is to summarize the status of the Dracunculiasis Eradication Programme as of March 1993, when less than three years are... Read more...
This meeting focused on the link between water and health in the most underprivileged urban quarters in the Third World. Read more...
The round table on water and health, that was initiated by the French government, grew out of the recommendations outlined in Agenda 21 of the Earth... Read more...
This book is based on direct field experience in community water supply programmes in Africa. It stresses the partnership between community and... Read more...