Sanitation Updates
This news feed on sanitation is maintained by the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and by USAID’s WASHplus project. It was originally set up to promote the 2008 International Year of Sanitation and continues to provide news, information and resources in support of achieving the goal of sanitation for all.
The JMP Post-2015 indicators on WASH in schools are a step in the right direction
25 Sep 12
The JMP Post-2015 Working Groups have proposed targets and indicators for WASH in schools to be included in future global monitoring of water, sanitation and hygiene. Have they got it right or should they start again from scratch? Overall, most participants …Continue reading →
Making sanitation subsidies effective: an IRC summer debate
20 Sep 12
By Carmen da Silva Wells Every year, diarrhoea kills more children in developing countries than AIDS, malaria and measles combined (Pruss-Ustun 2008). Sanitation subsidies are a common tool used to motivate households to construct toilets. This seems an obvious response: many …Continue reading →
Peepoo toilets in flood emergencies in Sindh, Pakistan and Kisumu, Kenya
19 Sep 12
Filed under: Africa, East Asia & Pacific, Emergency Sanitation, Multimedia Tagged: Kenya, Pakistan, Peepoo
Living without sanitary sewers in Latin America
19 Sep 12
Rojas, F. (2012). Living without sanitary sewers in Latin America – The business of collecting fecal sludge in four Latin American cities. World Bank, Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), Latin America and the Caribbean. Full text The present report spotlights …Continue reading →
Cash Rewards Spur Poor Communities to Pay for Sanitation Projects
11 Sep 12
Cash Rewards Spur Poor Communities to Pay for Sanitation Projects | Source: by Nicole Wallace, Philanthropy.com – Sept 11, 2012 An international aid charity is taking an unorthodox approach to helping people in Cambodia and Vietnam improve sanitation and hygiene: …Continue reading →
WaterAid Australia – Towards Inclusive WASH: Sharing evidence and experience from the field.
06 Sep 12
Towards Inclusive WASH: Sharing evidence and experience from the field, 2012. WaterAid Australia. This new publication is a record of the WASH sector’s efforts to achieve equity and inclusion in programming around the world. The publication includes one keynote paper …Continue reading →
WaterAid Australia – Towards Inclusive WASH: Sharing evidence and experience from the field.
06 Sep 12
Towards Inclusive WASH: Sharing evidence and experience from the field, 2012. WaterAid Australia. This new publication is a record of the WASH sector’s efforts to achieve equity and inclusion in programming around the world. The publication includes one keynote paper …Continue reading →
Effective hygiene promotion works – right?
05 Sep 12
Many people, especially children, are still becoming ill and even dying due to unsafe hygienic behaviour. Good behaviour – using a hygienic toilet, washing hands with soap, safely managing drinking water – are typical behaviours resulting from effective water, sanitation …Continue reading →
Effective hygiene promotion works – right?
06 Sep 12
Many people, especially children, are still becoming ill and even dying due to unsafe hygienic behaviour. Good behaviour – using a hygienic toilet, washing hands with soap, safely managing drinking water – are typical behaviours resulting from effective water, sanitation …Continue reading →
Zimbabwean sanitation and human rights advocate Nomathemba Neseni dies
04 Sep 12
“Sanitation is a passion, not a job,” said Noma Neseni last year at the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India. “I became a human rights commissioner because of toilets. What is gender equality or poverty alleviation when …Continue reading →
