BRAC has been implementing the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme in 150 sub-districts of Bangladesh with a focus of achieving MDG 7; target 10 with support from the Government of the Netherlands since 2006. Read more...
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in schools is globally recognized as a key intervention to promote children’s right to health and clean environment and to influence a generational change in hygiene behaviours and attitudes. PLAN Uganda through a partnership with NETWAS Uganda conducted a... Read more...
The Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS) in Ghana is benefitting from the second phase of the Southern Youth Zone programme (SYZP) organized by IRC. The programme officer, Ms. Basilia Nanbigne, has been selected to represent Ghana in this programme, their training started in... Read more...
Du 5 au 8 décembre prochain, Ouagadougou la capitale du Burkina Faso abrite une importante rencontre sur le Thème « financement de l’eau et de l’assainissement pour tous en Afrique » à l’initiative du Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA). … Read more...
Le Centre Africain pour l’Eau Potable et l’Assainissement (CREPA) vient d’être lauréat du Certificat des bonnes pratiques 2011 du Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains (UN -Habitat). Le certificat des bonnes pratiques a été décerné pour la première fois cette année en... Read more...
African ministers have committed to do what they can ‘in our own back yard’ by using local finance for sanitation rather than depend on hand-outs. They were following the advice of President Kagame of Rwanda who opened AfricaSan 3, the … Read more...
Ewen Le Borgne shares his reflections from the 2011 Share Fair, and three very interesting and complementary sessions on a) the IFAD experience of putting KM and learning into practice (#218) b) using social media for development (#206) and c) IKM-Emergent's idea of a knowledge ecology (#173). Read more...
«D’ici un an et plus tard, le partenariat entre Charity Water et le CREPA permettra non seulement de fournir de l’eau potable à une grande majorité de personnes, mais fournira également un cadre de vie assaini a plusieurs ménages en vue de l’atteinte des OMD. Avec le CREPA nous pensons pouvoir... Read more...
The UN's latest Millennium Development Goals Report notes that progress in sanitation has largely bypassed the poor while rural populations remain disadvantaged. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2049 to provide 77 per cent of the global population with improved sanitation. Read more...
The WASH Process Documentation Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda in September 2011, was successful in encouraging participants to become more enthusiastic about process documentation and its benefits. Process Documentation provides a systematic way to capture what happens in a process of change, and... Read more...
Each issue of WASHplus Weekly highlights new resources and publications on a wide range of topics related to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and indoor air quality (IAQ). Read more...
Four young professionals from Southern partners from Bangladesh, Ghana, Guatemala, and Uganda started training for one month at IRC, as part of the second round of the PSO-funded Southern Youth Zone Programme from 2010 to 2012. Read more...
This daily newsletter brings you the latest news items, videos and publications spotted by sanitation experts. Read more...
Documenting change is a vitally important activity for learning from and improving the work carried out in development initiatives. Read more...
How to measure the impacts of knowledge sharing? Are the platforms and processes we use for learning and knowledge sharing leading to change? To better ways of working? How can we demonstrate the Return on Investment of Knowledge Management? Read more...
Le village de Bagmnini dispose depuis le 21 août 2011, d’un forage, grâce au soutien du Lions club Ouaga étoile. Le président du club, Silmiraogo Nabalma, a situé cette œuvre dans la logique du lionnisme et des Lions qui volent toujours au secours des plus démunis. L’’idée de la construction du... Read more...
A team of engineering students from Brigham Young University (BYU) has developed a human-powered drill that can reach a depth of up to 75 metres at 10% to 20% the cost of a traditional motorized well rig. A prototype of the “Village Drill” cost around US$ 4,000 (excluding labour) to make in the USA... Read more...