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The business case for sanitation in developing countries is testified by the thousands of small scale entrepreneurs springing up to tackle problems of open defecation and process faecal waste and urine. Will these businesses be profitable and sustainable? Read more...
A workshop, 'New Approaches to Scaling Up WASH Technologies', was organised at this year's UNC's Water and Health conference to introduce novel approaches to scaling up WASH technologies. One of these approaches is the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF). Read more...
"Everyone forever" may be ahead of schedule in India, but where is the will to achieve it? Read more...
Two years after a district assessment of handpump functionality in Ghana, why have things got worse, rather than better? Read more...
Email requests can sometimes trigger the most interesting thoughts and ideas. Read more...
How should WASH-related targets make it into the United Nation's post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals? Read more...
Strengthening local government capacity for service delivery remains a key challenge for the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. 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...
"Only the Hon. Minister of Water and Environment has a mandate to sanction decommissioning of defunct water facilities" Read more...
Fee-based approaches alone won't cut it when it comes to getting decent-quality services to the poor. Read more...
Sustainability checks applied by DGIS in its last five years of WASH funding get a cautiously optimistic review. Read more...
The town of Butajira was awash with self-supply acceleration tips when 25 participants came together for a three-day training event. Read more...
The World Water Week showed that although there are positive efforts around building partnerships there is still a need for the sector to continue operating in exclusive and life changing ways that lead to lasting impact. Over the course of the week, efforts made by business, governments, charities... Read more...
This meeting at the Netherlands Embassy in Addis was a very special one, for a number of reasons. Read more...
De bijeenkomst op de Nederlandse ambassade in Addis was bijzonder om een aantal redenen. Read more...
El monitoreo, el desarrollo de capacidades y el aprendizaje para la mejora a menudo se tratan como procesos separados. Al vincular el monitoreo con el desarrollo y la capacidad de aprendizaje, podemos tomar medidas para mejorar. Read more...
On 13 September, a Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) was launched in Addis for the WASH sector. Amongst other key innovations it includes Self-supply as a service delivery model. Read more...
"One plan – one budget – one report" is the catchphrase for the Ethiopian government's newly launched sector-wide approach to WASH. Read more...
Navigating the danger zone where countries raise enough money to build but not maintain new infrastructure raises a question: Does this zone exist? Read more...
Why are we are building low-cost latrines which may not be able to isolate harmful faecal matter from humans? Read more...