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La communication pour le changement de comportement : on trouve du Coca-Cola dans les bidonvilles, mais pas de toilettes. Les produits chargés d'émotion et de passion se vulgarisent plus rapidement. Everold Hosein, un expert de la communication pour un impact comportemental (COMBI), se demande si l... Read more...
« Si Shah Jahan a pu construire le Taj Mahal, pourquoi ne peux-tu pas me construire des toilettes ? » Mme Amuda Periaswamy, commissaire du gouvernement de Tamil Nadu, a décrit comment le travail effectué a changé les attitudes envers les femmes et l'assainissement. La gestion de l'hygiène... Read more...
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector is facing serious challenges: 2 billion people are without sanitation and 800 million lack water services. And when services are provided, most are unreliable, of poor quality and prone to failure. In South Asia alone, 570,000 children die every year... Read more...
Highlights from address by the Ethiopian State Minister H.E. Ato Kebede Gerba at the opening of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) Forum on 29 November 2011 in Kampala, Rural Water Supply in the 21st Century: Myths of the Past, Visions for the Future. Read more...
During the 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum, which took place from November 29 to December 1, 2011, more than one hundred participants paid a visit to the Story Booth to be recorded on video and participate in the Triple-S story initiative. Read more...
The relationship between multiple use of water and sustainability in service provision is still a thorny issue. Read more...
The Akatsi District in the Volta Region collected baseline data on all its water facilities using the Field Level Operations Watch, (FLOWs) technology. Read more...
Patrick Moriarty, Director of the IRC Triple-S Project, describes how WASHCost and Triple-S contribute to change processes in rural water and sanitation service delivery. Read more...
Vida Duti, the new IRC Country Director from January 2012, says that lack of money in village accounts to carry out repairs is one of the major reasons for service failure. Read more...
In India, though considerable investments are made through the Total Sanitation Campaign (flagship program of Govt of India) the ground realities of sanitation facilities are very poor and alarmingly dangerous for human health. Read more...
The responsibility for sanitation in Asia is fragmented over different agencies, and in most cases the priority given to sanitation is low. Therefore more leadership and political will is needed to make sure that organisational structures function, that plans with … Read more...
Improving sustainability, equity and monitoring in Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are topics for the 3 rd Asia Sanitation and Hygiene practitioners workshop. This workshop will be held from 31 January to 2 February 2012 in Bangladesh. Read more...
This paper examines the aid effectiveness agenda and reviews its implementation at international and various regional and country levels. Read more...
Triple-S Uganda organised a national learning forum to reflect on self-supply. The forum was organised in partnership with The Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE); Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET); Network for Water and Sanitation (NETWAS); Uganda Rain Water Association (URWA)... Read more...
WASHTech has published a literature review focusing on 14 technologies used in Africa in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. Read more...
« Il est temps de situer l’assainissement et l’accès aux toilettes salubres au centre de nos discussions en matière de développement » a dit le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, le 21 juin 2011. Cette préoccupation rencontre une autre qui … Read more...
WASHCost Ghana Capital maintenance (CapManEx) is the punch on the jaw that you didn’t see coming. It is the knock out blow that lands you on your back with little prospect of getting up in time to beat the count. Though CapManEx is economics and not boxing; and the blow is metaphorical, not... Read more...
The Government of Uganda invited experts from Mozambique, Ghana, and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to share their experiences using the life-cycle costs approach (LCCA) to improve sector performance. This approach is raising awareness of the potential for life-cycle costs to achieve... Read more...
This paper is about the costs of providing direct and indirect support to rural water service provision and provides an overview of the features such... Read more...
