In the last ten years, Mozambique undertook major reforms in water provision in rural and urban areas. These reforms are central to promoting sustainable water provision and to promoting equity. Read more...
L’Union pour la Méditerranée (UpM) et l’Autorité Palestinienne de l’Eau (PWA) travaillent ensemble pour recueillir les 310 millions d’euros nécessaires à la construction d’une usine de dessalement et de distribution d’eau dans la Bande de Gaza. Les pays arabes, coordonnés … Read more...
“Government has an unavoidable role to play towards sustainable water services at scale in Ghana, as the only actor with the legitimacy to lead development of an agreed framework for service delivery”, says Mrs Vida Duti, Country Director of IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in Ghana. Read more...
The NGO “Give to Colombia” will implement several pilot projects that will serve as models for the Rural Water Supply and Wastewater Management Program in Colombia. The pilot projects will focus on WASH in schools, post-construction support, household connections and self-supply models. IRC has a... Read more...
To choose the sanitation product or service that households want and can afford, couples (both men and women) need access to information on which they can base their choice. Read more...
Regarding the ‘enabling environment’ of the policies, laws, regulations and institutional and financial support, sanitation still faces a double challenge: the low priority for sanitation in comparison to water supply and economic development programmes reluctance of authorities to drop short-term... Read more...
Factors which trigger households to build and use toilets can be quite different from the messages that promoters spread. Read more...
Typical sanitation promoters are training community health workers and local leaders, council members and members of village water and sanitation committees. Read more...
PHAST is a comprehensive approach to reduce diarrhoeal diseases. Read more...
This approach encourages households to recognize, develop and meet demands for more than toilets. Read more...
A definition of sanitation marketing is the use of business principles and unsubsidized markets to make it possible that local providers meet the demands of non-poor and poor local households. (Sijbesma et al, 2010) Read more...
Sustaining sanitation is much more expensive than building latrines. The 20-year cost of sustaining a basic level sanitation service per person in WASHCost research areas is anywhere from 5-20 times the cost per person of building the latrine in the first place. Read more...