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Water and sanitation remain a priority for the Dutch Government. For the coming years 100 million dollars a year has been budgeted to improve access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) promotion. Read more...
Finding lasting solutions to Africa's water and sanitation challenges is a key aim of the Fifth Africa Water Week, which will take place from May 26-31 in Dakar, Senegal. IRC will participate in this major regional event and run sessions about the role of local government in sustainable service... Read more...
On the 4 th of April, a conference on “Improving Resilience Building Water Strategies in Arid Lands” has gathered about 100 participants in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference aimed at sharing experiences of the Kenya Arid Lands Disaster Risk Reduction (KALDRR) WASH program with experts of the WASH and... Read more...
Summarising the key findings agreed upon by the participants of the three‐day workshop Read more...
A study commissioned by Plan International on the sustainability of CLTS programs in Africa revealed that 87% of the households still had a functioning latrine. Read more...
Sue Barnes, founder of Project Dignity, a remarkable initiative for South African school girls, has been recognised as the 2013 Clarins Most Dynamic Woman of the Year. Read more...
A seminar looking at monitoring of decentralised delivery of water sanitation and hygiene services in West Africa. Read more...
Sanergy takes inaugural Sarphati Santation Award for creating 242 sanitation facilities. Read more...
How a new West Africa workshop brought together 70 participants from 16 countries. Read more...
At an annual WASH learning retreat in Kenya for Action Contre la Faim (ACF International) IRC was invited to give an introduction to the Service Delivery Approach (SDA) and Life-Cycle Cost Approach (LCCA) to about 33 ACF WASH staff from 20 countries (and 3 headquarters). Read more...
At the World Water Week, SWA made a commitment to play a pivotal role to contribute to and help shape the means of implementation, as well as follow-up and review of the water, sanitation and hygiene related targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 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...
The Cape Verdian government has approved the creation of two new water and sanitation bodies: the national water and sanitation council CNAS and the national water and sanitation agency ANAS. The reform of the water and sanitation sector is being supported by the US Millennium Challenge Corporation... Read more...
Rather than installing more pumps or building more latrines, NGO Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Canada aims to build a more effective sector. A new case study examines their strategy and the results. Read more...
Organised by : African Water Association (AfWA) and SODECI s.a. Theme : Mobilizing Resources and Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa Sub-Themes : Integrated Management of Water Resources and Climate Change Capacity Building for improved Water and Sanitation Services Advances in Water and... Read more...
Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue d’une session supplémentaire à l’attention des participants francophones du symposium, en particulier des points focaux d’AMCOW en Afrique francophone chargés du suivi et de l’évaluation. Cette session se tiendra ce mercredi 10 avril de 16:00 à 18:00 en... Read more...
Providing toilets to the poorest may be "dear to the hearts of many non-profits, aid agencies and governments" but if you want to involve business you have to start with the better-off families first. Read more...
Liberia will need to bridge a US$ 450 million funding gap to achieve the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) targets that it set for itself in 2017. Read more...
Find out how different organisations around the world are using the life-cycle costs approach. Read more...
On Friday 12 April 2013 there will be the African Ministers’ Council on Water: African monitoring & evaluation steering committee meeting, chaired by the African Union Commission. This is a closed meeting. Read more...