Increase national and international investments in WASH in Schools and engage those who set policies are two of the key messages emerging from recent debates organised by IRC, UNICEF and WASH in Schools partners in Europe in April and May 2011. Read more...
The International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE) at UNICEF’s request conducted a study in Burkina Faso on analysing microbiology and physic-chemical quality of the water along its supply chain (welling, transport, storage).This was coupled with a study on behavioural... Read more...
The positive momentum that is supporting the sanitation and hygiene campaign in Nigeria owes a great deal to Engr. Ebele Okeke, WSSCC’s “WASH Ambassador” in the country. Read more...
The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and WaterAid in West Africa are supporting the West Africa WASH Journalists Network. Read more...
Registration is open for the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene, Mumbai, 9-14 October 2011. And the new Global WASH Campaign is here: Good Dignity Practices for Gross Domestic Product (GDP for GDP). Read more...
Environ 20% des personnes infectées par la bactérie présentent une diarrhée aiguë aqueuse et chez 10-20% d'entre elles, une diarrhée aqueuse sévère accompagnée des vomissements selon un document du Bureau Régional de l'Afrique de l'OMS. En l'absence d'un traitement rapide approprié, la perte des... Read more...
What works in hygiene and sanitation programming and what does not? Why, with so many good experiences and advances, are basic needs and challenges not met? What are our future priorities? These questions were addressed in eight regional practitioners’ workshops, held in four continents, during... Read more...
Life-cycle costs represent the aggregate costs of ensuring delivery of sustainable WASH services through a system’s cycle of wear, repair and renewal. That message was delivered at the WASH Conference 2011: "Towards sustainability in water, sanitation and hygiene" in Brisbane, Australia,... Read more...
The IRC Support Group to the European Union Water Initiative (EUWI) Africa Working Group (AWG) contributed to two new briefing notes to help policy and decision makers implement some of the high level declarations that call for accelerated progress to meet sanitation and water targets in Africa. Read more...
Human rights groups warn that residents face a severe water crisis. An estimated 95% percent of drinking water fails to meet international standards and water and sanitation plants have yet to berebuilt following the 2009 Israeli war. Read the full transcript Source : FSRN / Real News , 28 Jul 2011 Read more...
From 16 to 18 November 2010, IRC’s second symposium gathered some 120 international participants in The Hague, The Netherlands to discuss the latest in discursive trends, research agenda and on-the-ground experiences on WASH service costs, financing and accountability. Read more...
Mr Edem Asimah, Chairman of the Select Committee on Water and Sanitation, [has] urged government to determine its own water delivery systems for the people and not allow donors to impose their conditions on us. He said over the years various governments had failed to stop donors from imposing... Read more...
On Thursday, after 23 years of hard work and a major setback, Ghana finally declared victory over Guinea worm. Vice President John Dramani Mahama has called on volunteers and co-ordinators of the Guinea Worm Eradication Programme to be extra vigilant in ensuring that guinea worm did not resurface... Read more...
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...
Vendredi 22 juillet, le secrétariat permanent du réseau de centres de ressources (RCR) du Burkina Faso a organisé un atelier spécial pour les membres de ce réseau. 25 participants ont pu échanger dans le cadre d’un programme très dynamique et participatif qui a permis de jeter un regard sur les... Read more...
Pour gagner le pari de la mise en œuvre du projet WASHTech au Burkina, un atelier d’échanges et de partage d’expériences entre acteurs du secteur de Hygiène Assainissement et l’Eau Potable s’est tenu le jeudi 14 juillet 2011 dans la salle de formation du CREPA avec près d’une vingtaine de... Read more...
In order to introduce the WASHTech project to the actors in the WASH sector, the project country team organized a workshop on July 14 th 2011 at CREPA HQ. Read more...
Le goitre est une augmentation de la glande thyroïde due à plusieurs causes dont la carence en iode dans l’alimentation et dans l’eau de boisson. Pour ce cas précis et réel, il s’agit d’une apparition brusque de goitre chez toute une population qui consommait l’eau d’un puits pourtant utilisé... Read more...
On Friday 22 July 2011, the secretariat of the resource centre network (RCN) from Burkina Faso organised a very special workshop for its members. 25 participants engaged in a very interactive programme looking back at seven years of history and perhaps several years of promises ahead? Read more...
Africa could finally be turning a corner in the sanitation crisis, say civil society groups, ANEW and FAN, NGO WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the End Water Poverty Campaign. Read more Source: Public Agenda / allAfrica.com, 25 July 2011 Read more...