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On 27 July 2011, more than 20 leading international water and development organizations signed and launched the WASH Sustainability Charter. This Charter is a collaboratively-developed mission and set of guiding principles to advance lasting solutions in water, sanitation and hygiene education (... Read more...
Mr. Joseph Katabarwa, Environmental Health expert, Ministry of Health, Rwanda has been in touch with IRC since 1998 when he did a three-week course on Hygiene Promotion in Nairobi by Netwas International and IRC. Later he did two more courses in Kenya: one on Management for Sustainability in Water... Read more...
The results of the international Dettol HABIT Study (Hygiene: Attitudes, Behaviour, Insight and Traits) were recently presented to health and safety professionals by expert professors from the Global Hygiene Council in Dubai. During the symposium, the Dubai Ministry of Education invited a number of... Read more...
UAE-based charity Dubai Care has launched a program to improve hygiene education activities in 450 schools in the Indonesian provinces of Nusa Tenggara Timor, Papua, West Papua and South Sulawesi. In total, 90,000 schoolchildren in Indonesia will benefit from the program, which is a collaborative... Read more...
Schools that promote a healthy learning environment for pupils ensure that there is access to water and sanitation facilities and that teachers engage pupils frequently on discussions about health. In these schools the number of children who washed hands frequently increased from six percent to... Read more...
Unilever through its Lifebuoy soap brand has reached 100,000 students in over 80 schools across Nairobi County its hand washing campaign. Read more...
''... Our warmest thanks for your contribution to the success of the WASH Conference 2011. The training component of the event was an outstanding success with more than three quarters of the delegates to stay for the full week...” This is how Dr. Regina Souter, Programme Manager, International... Read more...
The online Community Choices Tool demo is a prototype of a decision-making support tool for the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector, being developed by the Pacific Institute. Read more...
A snapshot of the case studies on good hygiene promotion: discover what you would like to read. Read more...
The objective of the compilation on good hygiene practices is to strengthen the capacity of organisations to design and deliver effective hygiene promotion programmes leading to the improved health of communities. Read more...
Report from second review meeting on sustainable WASH. Read more...
In 2010, there were two important regional meetings held resulting in consensus from stakeholders and two joint commitments; the Nepalgunj Commitment and the Surkhet Declaration. The meetings tried to address improved coordination, harmonisation and local resource mobilisation (allocation of 10% to... Read more...
C’est l’une des nouvelles tendances du secteur de l’eau : faire des vieux réseaux d’eau et d’assainissement des réseaux intelligents. Dans ce but, Suez Environnement et GE – via ses filiales GE Energy, Power & Water et GE Intelligent Platforms … Read more...
This article describes the FOAMS model which includes five core elements of hygiene promotion programmes that all need to be addressed in order to achieve behaviour change. It also provides an introduction to a compilation of good hygiene promotion practices: three key note papers and thirty-three... Read more...
Open defecation and unsafe latrines together account for a high toll taken by water-borne diseases in South Asia. In fact, between 2008 and 2011, that is, the interval between SACOSAN III held in New Delhi and SACOSAN IV that recently concluded in Colombo, 750,000 children under 5 succumbed to... Read more...
This story was told to Juliet Waterkeyn by Amai (Mother) Toriro before she died in 2010 in Zimbabwe from an AIDS related illness. The key message that she wanted readers to know was that she had changed her life through becoming active with the help of a community health club. She did not die alone... Read more...
Sahel Solidarité received the Burkinabé Merit Order 2010 for its work in water and sanitation, health, education and environment. The NGO was the only organisation to receive this prestigious award for 2010 Read more...
En novembre 2010, WaterAid, avec le soutien du consortium de recherche SHARE, a réuni 16 praticiens et chercheurs ayant une expertise dans l'eau, l’assainissement et l’hygiène (EAH), la santé, l'équité et l'inclusion, l'éducation et le Genre, pour partager des connaissances et expériences et... Read more...
This document briefly describes the background, objectives and methodology of the East Africa Practitioners Workshop on Pro-Poor Urban Sanitation and Hygiene, held at LAICO Umubano Kigali on 29th-31st of March 2011. Read more...
For the evaluation of the South Asia Hygiene Practitioners’ Workshop, 1 – 4 February 2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh, we would like to ask you to share your short stories about the workshop. To share your story, please click on the evaluation form link below. After having written down your story, you will... Read more...