Source - Lessons Learned



Indonesia: Interesting lessons from Rural Infrastructure Support Project

03 Mar 10

Interesting lessons emerge from the Rural Infrastructure Support Project that ran from June 2006 to March 2009 involving 1,840 rural villages in four provinces in Indonesia.

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People with HIV/AIDS: water and sanitation needs increase, but not met

03 Mar 10

In a recent study in Tanzania [1] WaterAid and AMREF found some evidence that People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) have an increased need for both water and sanitation services, but lack the means to meet these needs. It confirmed that there is lack of clear arrangements on access to water and sanitation for infected people.

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Output-Based Aid: challenges for OBA Facility for the water and sanitation sector in Honduras

16 Dec 09

The Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) is sharing interesting results and lessons learned from a pilot Output-Based Aid (OBA) facility in Honduras in a new note. The project tested the viability of an innovative output-based aid mechanism for financing water and sanitation services.

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Angola: NGO experiences in water service provision for the peri-urban poor

16 Dec 09

The NGO Development Workshop Angola highlights lessons from its support to the construction and management of over 200 urban standpipes, more than 700 hand-dug wells, and the development of local elected committees to manage these standpipes in post-war Angola.

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Local governance: lessons from implementing WASH activities in the coastal belt of Bangladesh

03 Nov 09

Important lessons emerge from the large Coastal Belt Water Supply and Sanitation project that was supported by Danida and the Government of Bangladesh during 1997-2009. Processes, achievements and challenges are documented in a new publication that is a must-read for everyone involved in decentralisation and local governance.

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Privatisation: two thirds of ADB's private sector water transactions cancelled

03 Nov 09

Two-thirds of water transactions approved by the Asian Development Bank's Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) had to be canceled due to disputes between project promoters and authorities, limitations of the build-operate-transfer modality, and unresolved tariff issues.

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Water safety plans: assuring drinking water quality in rural South Africa

12 Oct 09

There has been exponential growth of small treatment plants situated in rural areas with limited technical support. Water safety plans help determine whether the drinking water supply chain as a whole can deliver water of a quality that meets health-based targets.

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Rainwater harvesting: increasing food security in South Africa

12 Oct 09

It is estimated that 19 million people in South Africa are rural survivalists with traditional agrarian lifestyles. At least 15 million individuals of these are living below the poverty level. In contrast farming contributes only 10% of material income for rural livelihoods.

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Urban poor: giving poor people a say in the water and sanitation services and proof of residence works

27 Aug 09

Giving poor people a say in the water and sanitation services they receive, and allowing alternative documentation to prove residence are some of the simple solutions that can bring sustainable water and sanitation services to the hundreds of millions currently living without, according to a new report today released by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP).

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Hygiene promotion: lessons from Save the Children’s programme in Malawi

02 Jun 09

Save the Children has been running School Health and Nutrition (SHN) programmes in Malawi since 1998. When the programmes started, only 42% of schools had access to clean water and none had hand-washing facilities. It is now phasing out the programmes, passing over responsibility to the government.

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