Manual drilling methods are being used to provide water for drinking and other domestic needs in at least 36 countries around the world. Read more...
Lessons learnt from the Pan-Africa programme have prompted several countries to turn the sanitation challenges into opportunities for progress. Read more...
Eight African countries are creatively achieving the goals of community led total sanitation programmes (CLTS) including one idea in Malawi where handwashing is monitored according to the health of tree seedlings planted beneath water outlets. Read more...
GIZ and JICA have signed an agreement to collaborate in water and sanitation in Zambia, Uganda and Kenya. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have agreed to plan, implement and evaluate their projects... Read more...
A paper commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, summarises critical water and sanitation sector reform implementation issues by drawing from recent experience in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. It was written by a group of policy advisors of the... Read more...
Reprint of an issue of the journal "Focus on Gender" which considers some of the dilemmas of emergency relief operations, and looks at the... Read more...
This report tries to identify capital projects in the water and sanitation sector, and suggests possible uses for a special appropriation of US$ 650... Read more...
Directions for WSP-Africa support are identified, covering ten countries with extensive WSP-AF operations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya,... Read more...
The end of the official UN Water Decade brought a new awareness of the extent of potable water problems worldwide. Read more...