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How can we make sanitation services last forever? Challenges, lessons and good practices were shared by participants and presenters at the AfricaSan 3 conference in Kigali, Rwanda held from 18 to 22 July 2011. IRC facilitated several sessions and a hands-on training seminar on applying the life-... Read more...
This study evaluated the efficacy of ABHS on volunteers’ hands artificially contaminated with Escherichia coli in the presence of dirt (soil from Tanzania) and cooking oil. ABHS reduced levels of E. coli by a mean of 2.33 log colony forming units (CFU) per clean hand, 2.32 log CFU per dirt-covered... Read more...
A US-Ghanaian team has been awarded US$ 1.5 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a biorefinery that will convert fecal sludge to biodiesel and methane. Read more...
The Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement à faible coût ( CREPA ) has established a local chapter in Rwanda.The Rwandan Minister of State for Energy and Water, Eng Collette Ruhamya, who is also the vice chair of the CREPA Ministerial Council, launched CREPA-Rwanda at an event in... Read more...
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) has provided international charity WaterAid with an annual grant of £4.2 million (US$ 7.8 millon) over three years. Read more...
This is a call for participants and contributors to an in-depth learning and sharing session on sanitation in rapidly-growing towns. IRC, together with UCLGA, WIN-SA and AusAid, are hosting a Learning and Sharing Workshop around this crucial topic in November 2011. The 2 day session, to be held in... Read more...
Gabrielle Halcrow (SNV Bhutan) gave praise to IRC for sharing the story about the female masons in Kerala, at the previous regional learning workshop hosted in Dien Bien in January 2011. She did this in a DGroup discussion while reporting on the “Governance for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene”... Read more...
James Batchelor of the WASHCost team uses spatial analysis completed over the past year on 20 villages in Andhra Paradesh to demonstrate the effectiveness of mapping as a way of analysing and understanding factors that influence life-cycle costs and WASH service levels. Read more...
Chinda is a small rural municipality, of some 5000 people, spread out over 15 hamlets in Western Honduras. This week I had the opportunity to carry out a case study of the work of the NGO Water For People (WFP) in this municipality. Read more...
The African Water Facility (AWF) has issued a Call for Concept Notes under the urban sanitation theme for the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AWF will fund up to ten projects that promise to address the needs and to sustainably improving the sanitation situation of a densely populated urban... Read more...
Changes to the WASH sector in Burkina Faso Read more...
This new 9 minute video shows how BRAC is addressing high absenteeism rates among female students through a water, sanitation and hygiene programme in nearly 3,000 schools across rural Bangladesh. The programme includes menstrual hygiene facilties. [Female students] have expressed that something so... Read more...
The African Water Facility (AWF) has issued a Call for Concept Notes under the urban sanitation theme for the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AWF will fund up to ten projects that promise to address the needs and to … Read more...
Le gouvernement sénégalais a dégagé 500 millions de francs CFA (762 245 euros) pour les travaux d’urgence devant permettre à la station d’épuration de Cambérène de retrouver sa « toute sa puissance », révèle le quotidien le Soleil.Cette station était à … Read more...
L’Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international (USAID) et la Fondation Gates ont annoncé le lancement du programme WASH for Life d’une valeur de 17 millions de dollars US (11,79 millions d’euros).Ce programme de partenariat vise à identifier, tester et … Read more...
L’Institut de l’UNESCO-IHE pour l’éducation relative à l’eau et ses partenaires ont reçu 8 millions de dollars (5,55 millions d’euros) de la Fondation Bill et Melinda Gates. Cette somme sera employée pour améliorer l’éducation et la recherche universitaire en matière … Read more...
Année de publication : 2011 Quel sera d’ici à 10 ans par exemple, le profil du secteur de l’eau, de l’hygiène et de l’assainissement à l’échelle internationale ? On peut se poser les questions suivantes : l’assainissement restera-t-il toujours à la … Read more...
Date de publication : 2011 En mars 2011, l’IRC, en collaboration avec le ministère rwandais de la Santé, a invité plus de 60 praticiens et chercheurs venus d’Afrique de l’est à un atelier pour échanger sur les progrès et difficultés … Read more...
