During the last WEDC conference in Hanoi, IRC and Aguaconsult organised a side event to discuss how different service delivery models are combined to provide universal and better access to rural water. Read more...
This second blogpost of three on urban sanitation in Indonesia describes the mismatch between policy and practice. Politicians have set the ambitious target to make Indonesia open defecation free by 2019, but a recent visit to Indonesian municipalities makes me wonder whether striving for the end... Read more...
I've just come back from a brief trip to Indonesia to learn from the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP), arguably one of the most interesting programs out there for those interested in large-scale change in urban sanitation. In a series of three blogposts, I will discuss this program, its... Read more...
This paper describes IRC's experience and lessons learned in conducting Capacity Self-Assessment (CSA) workshops as part of the SHAW programme in... Read more...
Improving the performance of the WASH sector to achieve services for life requires change within organisations and sector institutions. Such change cannot be achieved with standardised one-off training for individual staff. A short paper describes our experience in Indonesia with Capacity Self-... Read more...
This paper presents lessons learnt on improving learning in the WASH sector through resource centre networks in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal... Read more...
Great inequalities in water and sanitation service provision persist in the region. We work in partnership to accelerate the drive towards universal and sustainable access to sanitation, hygiene and water services. Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
Over the past year, there has been quite a bit of buzz in the WASH sector on the sustainability clause that DGIS seeks to include in its contacts with implementers. The pros and cons of this have been widely debated . A key component of the clauses is to have sustainability checks as a way to... Read more...
March 8th, is International Women's Day. A new SNV video, shares stories about women’s participation, leadership and their changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video is from the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme, a partnership... Read more...
Three women share their stories about participation, leadership and changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video was made to celebrate International Women's Day and features Mayadevi and Kaman (Nepal), Toan and Thinh (VietNam) and Tshering, Drukda, Tashi and Deschen (Bhutan).
The video is from SNV's Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme (SSH4A), which has been implemented by local governments and partners in 17 districts across Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia since 2008. It aims to provide one million people with access to improved hygiene and sanitation facilities by the end of 2015. As the approach aims at addressing access to sanitation for all, addressing gender issues and inequalities is key. SSH4A is a partnership between SNV, the Governments of the Netherlands, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia in Asia and IRC with support from AusAID and DFID.
The QIS monitoring system that is being used gives special attention to gender and sanitation. First because many of the indicators differentiate between women and men. Secondly because data collection for each sample is duplicated by a male and a female monitoring team. Interestingly, preliminary results show that virtually all the male and female monitoring teams members gave the same scores for the gender indicators.
Read more...Find out how different organisations around the world are using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
A tale of 12 cities. Which concerns and hopes do city planners, water sector specialists and researchers have for the future. Google scholar Read more...