Dans le cadre de la recherche à l’échelle nationale, l’équipe du projet WASHCost Burkina Faso a organisé une collecte de données au mois d’août 2010. Cette collecte de données appelée collecte de la saison pluvieuse fait suite à celle organisée en saison sèche de Mars à mai 2010. Elle a couvert l’... Read more...
The WASHCost India team has recently published an article regarding key issues facing community members and their need for better governed WASH services. Read more...
New US legislation proposes to appoint an International Water Issues Diplomatic Coordinator and to set up a Bureau for Global Water Aid at USAID. Democratic representative from Texas Sheila Jackson-Lee introduced the Global Water Access and Equity Act (H.R.6565) in Congress on 21 December 2010. It... Read more...
In November 2010, SPLASH, the European Union Water Initiative Research Area Network (EUWI ERA-net), selected 5 projects to be funded under the € 2.2 million SPLASH Sanitation Research Programme. Read more...
Les acteurs du secteur de l’eau, l’hygiène et l’assainissement (WASH en anglais) ont été formés à la création et l’animation de blogs le mardi 1 mars 2011 dans les locaux des 2iE à Ouagadougou. Read more...
Le journal “Knowledge Management for Development journal” lance un appel à contributions pour son tout premier numéro francophone, dont la date limite de soumission est le 1er juin 2011 et la parution prévue en décembre. Ce premier numéro sera consacré à la gestion, circulation et au partage des... Read more...
Plan Niger is one of several NGOs working with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and government health workers on community-led total sanitation (CLTS). A project there is showing people from scores of villages the dangers of open defecation. Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation said this would require behavioural change among Ghanaians towards... Read more...
UNICEF has again chosen Anambra State as one of the few states to benefit from the rural water programmes of the Water Supply and Sanitation Reform Programme (WSSSRP) and Support to Reforming Institutions (SRIP). Briefing newsmen at a workshop organised by UNICEF, the state UNICEF consultant, Amina... Read more...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will provide US$ 29.65 million to support urgent rehabilitation works - restoration and stabilization of water supply and sanitation services in the Municipalities of Harare, Chitungwiza, Mutare, Chegutu, Masvingo and Kwekwe. The Urgent Water Supply and... Read more...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="192" caption="Image via Wikipedia"] [/caption] Dans l’ouvrage « Le Droit à l’eau : une urgence humanitaire », Bernard Drobenko analyse la nécessité de répondre à un besoin humain fondamental. Le droit à l’eau doit être compris comme la nécessité de disposer... Read more...
Like any other Kenyan slum, Waruku settlement, part of Nairobi's sprawling Kangemi slums is bursting under population pressure. The mud and corrugated iron walled shanties are packed together - neighbours can literally talk to each other from the comfort of their beds. Plots are separated by... Read more...
With a population exceeding 10,000, Nyankanga ward in Musoma District faces acute shortage of water, a situation that forces its people especially women and children to walk long distance in search of water. The nearest constant supply of safe water is Lake Victoria, which is an over two-hour round... Read more...
The City of Cape Town is looking to harvest methane gas from water treatment plants to make the city more self-sufficient, the city’s executive director for utility services, Lungile Dlamini has revealed. The plan to use the methane gas from sewage was already at an advanced stage and the city was... Read more...
Selling water at more than Sh2 per 20 litre jerrycan will attract a heavy punishment including withdrawal of licences, water vendors have been warned. Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company managing director Moses Kinya said water vendors should not take advantage of the shortage in Mombasa and other... Read more...
A government drought monitoring team came face to face with the vagaries of the current drought when it visited starving and thirsty residents of Sosoma village in Mwingi East district. During the Tuesday visit, the team from the National Crisis Centre found residents and their livestock milling... Read more...
The local participants of the two-year project on Improved WASH Governance in West Nile through Local Dialogue identified seven lessons and recommendations for future initiatives. Read more...
Geordie Rae from St.Theresa Point First Nation dumps a slop pail full of sewage in a dump outside his home. Winnipeg Free Press Leaders of First Nations (indigenous peoples) from northern Manitoba want the United Nations to investigate the violations of rights imposed by the lack of water. Manitoba... Read more...
Ghana can exceed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) target of 54 per cent on sanitation by 2015 through effective implementation of the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) concept. Dr Kamal Kar, founder of CLTS Foundation, who made the observation said this would require behavioural change... Read more...
African project partners from Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda supported by four European partners have launched an applied research project to promote more effective investment in new technologies to achieve MDG targets. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Technologies (WASHTech) project started in... Read more...