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A model where public funds provide the back-end and private funds provide the front-end can fill the gap in sanitation financing in India, writes Anupam Tyagi from the International Management Institute in the Economic Times of February 9th, 2012. Read more...
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/35922061] The high incidence of open defecation in the Indian state of Bihar is not due to a lack awareness about toilets, according to this new Water for People video . In their view, it's more of a supply chain, marketing problem. The toilets on offer are not particularly... Read more...
Queuing for the Gents in Mumbai. Photo: Hindustan Times A slum resident from Mahim in Mumbai ended up killing his neighbour whom he felt had taken too long in a public toilet. Locals feel the tragic death could have been avoided if only the civic authorities had provided sufficient public toilets... Read more...
Using data from formative research to focus messaging on mothers’ aspirations for their children and fine-tuning activities based on feedback from the field and household survey data have been key to developing and implementing a handwashing with soap behavior change program in Vietnam. Read more...
Un camp peul dans la commune de Kandi au Nord du Bénin. Une concession de quatre cases de terre battue coiffées en paille de chiendents au cœur des champs de mil et de sorgho. A côté, un grenier de sorgho en forme d’entonnoir. Un arbre de karité se dresse dans la cour où jubilent des [...] Read more...
Un camp peul dans la commune de Kandi au Nord du Bénin. Une concession de quatre cases de terre battue coiffées en paille de chiendents au cœur des champs de mil et de sorgho. A côté, un grenier de sorgho en forme d'entonnoir. Un arbre de karité se dresse dans la cour où jubilent des enfants aux... Read more...
Although I was present at the birth of the ‘invocacy’ notion and thus know what it is about, I still like the emphasis on the importance of engagement and joint processes of learning and change. Read more...
Cette étude est une illustration de l’approche des coûts à long terme. Les résultats ne sont pas statistiquement représentatifs des trois types de systèmes à l’échelle du pays et ne doivent pas être interprétés comme tels. Leur présentation a permis de montrer comment opérationnaliser l’approche en... Read more...
Cette étude est une illustration de l’approche des coûts à long terme. Les résultats ne sont pas statistiquement représentatifs des trois types de systèmes à l’échelle du pays et ne doivent pas être interprétés comme tels. Leur présentation a permis de montrer comment opérationnaliser l’approche en... Read more...
Un llamado para adoptar políticas que promuevan el uso del agua, no sólo para el consumo en los hogares, sino también para la alimentación y el desarrollo de actividades económicas que generen ingresos. Read more...
On 7 March 2012, IRC and Florida International University (FIU), finalised the agreement to expand IRC's work on sustainable service delivery into Burkina Faso under the USAID programme: West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative (WA-WASH). The work will be carried out in... Read more...
Latrine at Farchana refugee camp, Eastern Chad. Photo: Flickr/Sustainable sanitation How important is sanitation during a humanitarian crisis? Why is it important to explore ecological and sustainable sanitation? Groupe URD looks at the case of Eastern Chad, an example of a major long-term crisis... Read more...
School menstrual hygiene management in Malawi : more than toilets, 2012. Full-text (pdf) SHARE; WaterAid This study identifies the needs and experiences of girls regarding menstruation. It draws upon participatory group workshops, a questionnaire and semi structured interviews with school-age girls... Read more...
Journal of Public Health in Africa, March 2012 Factors leading to poor water sanitation hygiene among primary school going children in Chitungwiza Full-text Blessing Dube, James January Although the world has progressed in the area of water and sanitation, more than 2.3 billion people still live... Read more...
Marketing Human Excreta: A Study of Possible Ways to Dispose of Urine and Faeces from Slum Settlements in Kampala, Uganda , 2011. E Schroeder, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). (Full-text) Some key findings include: High sociocultural barriers associated with handling... Read more...
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Learning Note found that beliefs and ease of access to soap and water were correlated with handwashing with soap behaviors for given proxy measures among mothers and caretakers in Peru and Senegal. Read more...
In Dr V. Kurian Baby's, IRC senior programe officer in South Asia, keynote address on the occasion of the World Water Day 2012, he stressed the need to enlarge the concept of food security to integrate drinking water security. Read more...
Knowledge management (KM) originates from the business sector (see Sveiby link below). The quest for more efficiency and effectiveness use of resources and the recognition that all knowledge - being the fourth production factor besides land, money and labour - resides in peoples' heads, lead to... Read more...
The State Council of China has passed a five-year plan aimed to provide access to safe drinking water for 298 million rural residents from 2011-2015. A total of 114,000 rural schools, and nearly 80 per cent of the rural population will have access to safe drinking water through centralized water... Read more...
