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In Uganda, local politicians often interfere with management of water supply facilities. They discourage water users from contributing the monthly operation and maintenance fees, arguing that government should provide free water to the population. This helps them win votes at election time. It is common to find water sources broken down for extended periods as the users wait for their elected leader to come and provide resources for repairs. In the meantime, they resort to unsafe water sources. Walalawo John Patrick, a local political leader in Apopong sub-county in Uganda did something different. When he sought support to get new water sources for his people, he was awakened to the fact that more than anything his constituents needed to revive and maintain existing water facilities.
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Video on the Qualitative Information System (QIS), an innovative monitoring tool developed by IRC and now used in the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh.
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This documentary music video, featuring local artists Shadow, J-Glo, 5YA, Jacob-V and Chiller Coolnaneee, draws attention to sanitation problems in post-war Liberia. It is an output of the international participatory action research network, Giving Voice to Hope (GV2H). This network includes Liberian artists and media companies, the University of Alberta's Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Centre for the Cross Cultural Study of Health & Healing, the Edmonton-based Rhodes Recordings, and charities such as the NYC-based GroundUp Global and the Liberia-based Center for Youth Empowerment. The Rotary Club of Calgary funded this video project as part of a series entitled "Songs for sustainable development and peace".
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Clip vidéo du deuxième jour du séminaire sur le suivi-évaluation des services locaux d'eau potable et d'assainissement dans les zones rurales et les villes secondaires africaines.
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Clip vidéo du premier jour du séminaire sur le suivi-évaluation des services locaux d'eau potable et d'assainissement dans les zones rurales et les villes secondaires africaines.
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This short video from the BRAC WASH programme highlights their ongoing study in Bangladesh on the use of faecal sludge from double pit latrines as organic fertiliser.
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The second of two short films on Self-supply by Abraham Hailu focuses on the regional level, taking the example of SNNPR. This is one of the regions moving ahead with implementation of the Self-supply acceleration approach.
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Women tell how WASH Committees have helped to introduce sanitation in their villages in Bangladesh. This video was produced by the BRAC WASH Programme for World Toilet Day 2013,
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This video, produced by the BRAC WASH programme, shows slides of handwashing promotion sessions for different groups (children, adolescent girls, women, men), as well as for schools, village WASH committees and mosques (imams). It was was released on 5 May 2013 to coincide with the World Health Organization's (WHO) annual global campaign to promote better hand hygiene in health care.
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Dick de Jong speaks to BRAC WASH Director Dr Babar Kabir on WaterCouch.tv at the 2013 World Water Day celebration in the Peace Palace in The Hague on 21 March.
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A short video, produced for World Water Day 2013, showing the technologies used in the BRAC WASH II programme to provide safe, arsenic-free water, including: handpump deep tube wells, arsenic removal filters, pond sand filters and piped water systems.
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BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water and sanitation programme across rural Bangladesh.
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This video by BRAC relates the story of one determined teenager and her commitment to helping BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (WASH) achieve its goals.
Though only fourteen years old, Akhi is already a leader in her community. Education has helped define Akhi's vision for the future and instilled in her a sense of responsibility. Through involvement in BRAC programmes, Ahki gained the opportunity to improve life for herself and people in her village. She now teaches people in her community how to live safer and healthier lives.
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Babar Kabir, Director Disaster Environment and Climate Change and Water and Sanitation Hygiene of BRAC Bangladesh talks about BRAC?s work. They work on a holistic cycle integrating water and sanitation with hygiene. Recently they finished BRAC WASH 1 in April 2011 to provide 25 million people with improved hygienic latrines. Their next steps are to build on this success as it takes longer than 4.5 years to change behaviours. They are consolidating their actions on those that are higher to convince, the last 5-10%. They are also concentrating on building entrepreneurship skills so that the hardware part can continue and the community will also play a role in the long term sustainability. Mapping water resources and emptying pit latrines are two areas which link BRAC?s WASH work with work on food security.
Interviewed by Nick Dickinson, IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre at the Stockholm World Water Week 2011 on Wednesday 24 August 2011
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This video highlights the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007.
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A comical Ugandan advert promoting the use of clean toilets called Kayonjos.
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'Each year World Water Day is an opportunity for all actors to pay attention to the challenges that continue to hinder effective delivery of water services, especially to the rural population', says Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, country coordinator of the Triple-S initiative in Uganda. This video shows how stakeholder cooperation enhances water facilities.
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Este video hace un llamado a los gobiernos para que apoyen los esfuerzos de las comunidades rurales en la gestión para el abastecimiento de agua.
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