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The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
New US legislation proposes to appoint an International Water Issues Diplomatic Coordinator and to set up a Bureau for Global Water Aid at USAID. Democratic representative from Texas Sheila Jackson-Lee introduced the Global Water Access and Equity Act (H.R.6565) in Congress on 21 December 2010. It... Read more...
In November 2010, SPLASH, the European Union Water Initiative Research Area Network (EUWI ERA-net), selected 5 projects to be funded under the € 2.2 million SPLASH Sanitation Research Programme. Read more...
Les acteurs du secteur de l’eau, l’hygiène et l’assainissement (WASH en anglais) ont été formés à la création et l’animation de blogs le mardi 1 mars 2011 dans les locaux des 2iE à Ouagadougou. Read more...
Le journal “Knowledge Management for Development journal” lance un appel à contributions pour son tout premier numéro francophone, dont la date limite de soumission est le 1er juin 2011 et la parution prévue en décembre. Ce premier numéro sera consacré à la gestion, circulation et au partage des... Read more...
Examples of key indicators for WASH in schools are shown in three lists. The examples may be useful for the reader to compare with his or her own... Read more...
Plan Niger is one of several NGOs working with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and government health workers on community-led total sanitation (CLTS). A project there is showing people from scores of villages the dangers of open defecation. Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation said this would require behavioural change among Ghanaians towards... Read more...
UNICEF has again chosen Anambra State as one of the few states to benefit from the rural water programmes of the Water Supply and Sanitation Reform Programme (WSSSRP) and Support to Reforming Institutions (SRIP). Briefing newsmen at a workshop organised by UNICEF, the state UNICEF consultant, Amina... Read more...
La gestion des déchets solides demeure une équation sans réponse dans plusieurs cités africaines où plus de 80 % des déchets sont anarchiquement déversés dans les rues, les caniveaux, les cours d’eaux ou à l’air libre. Ce qui présente des répercussions environnementales énormément néfastes. Read more...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide US$ 29.65 million to support urgent rehabilitation works - restoration and stabilization of water supply and sanitation services in the Municipalities of Harare, Chitungwiza, Mutare, Chegutu, Masvingo and Kwekwe. The Urgent Water Supply and... Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="192" caption="Image via Wikipedia"] [/caption] Dans l’ouvrage « Le Droit à l’eau : une urgence humanitaire », Bernard Drobenko analyse la nécessité de répondre à un besoin humain fondamental. Le droit à l’eau doit être compris comme la nécessité de disposer... Read more...
Like any other Kenyan slum, Waruku settlement, part of Nairobi's sprawling Kangemi slums is bursting under population pressure. The mud and corrugated iron walled shanties are packed together - neighbours can literally talk to each other from the comfort of their beds. Plots are separated by... Read more...
With a population exceeding 10,000, Nyankanga ward in Musoma District faces acute shortage of water, a situation that forces its people especially women and children to walk long distance in search of water. The nearest constant supply of safe water is Lake Victoria, which is an over two-hour round... Read more...
