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.
Nigeria: Meet Target On Latrines, Unicef Urges Kebbi Govt
04 Apr 08
United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has challenged the Kebbi State government to meet its target of constructing household latrines and compartments in schools across the state.The government has set a target to construct 31,480 household latrines, 270 compartments in 45 schools, 189 compartments in 63 health centres and 394 compartments in public places.Read More [...]
CLTS Toolkit (in Nepali)
04 Apr 08
On 5 March 2008 the Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) launched the CLTS Toolkit booklet during the Symposium on ‘Sanitation Approaches and Technologies in Nepal’.The booklet focuses on Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) practices and awareness raising to be used by facilitators in the communities.Inspired by the success of the approach in Bangladesh, CLTS was [...]
Vietnam - Washing dirty hands
04 Apr 08
The practice of hand-washing with soap in Vietnam’s rural areas is not common, a conference heard last week.According to the National Baseline Survey on the Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene Situation in Vietnam conducted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other partners, 12 percent of rural people wash their hands with soap before meals and [...]
Call for abstracts: sanitation for the urban poor
04 Apr 08
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organises a symposium ‘Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Governance and Partnerships’, from 19 – 21 November 2008, in Delft, the Netherlands. Abstracts for the symposium papers on the following five topics – urban governance and sanitation, innovative finance for sanitation, partnerships for sanitation, dynamics of urban settlements, and technological [...]
El Salvador: Sanitation is a national priority in 2008 « WASH news Latin America and Caribbean
04 Apr 08
El Salvador: Sanitation is a national priority in 2008 « WASH news Latin America and Caribbean
Uganda - Kalyango to Be Model Health Village
03 Apr 08
THE district has launched a campaign to make Kalyankoko Landing Site a model village in health and sanitation. Located on Lake Wamala in Maanyi sub-county, the landing site has been one of the worst in sanitation. This is why the district health department selected it.The Maanyi sub-county LC3 chairman, Leonard Ntambi, said the people suffered [...]
Pakistan well on its way to achieving Millennium Development Goals
03 Apr 08
Wednesday, 02 April 2008 Prime Minister Mohammedmian Soomro has said that Pakistan is well on its way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially for reducing to half the proportion of people lacking basic sanitation services by 2015, and moving onwards to our vision-2030, for ensuring sanitation for all. “The government is committed to [...]
Philippines: Sanitation in public facilities urged
03 Apr 08
Sanitation in public facilities urgedBy Rachelle NessiaDumaguete City (3 April) — A high-ranking government official has called on local chief executives to make sure that sanitation is observed in public facilities in their localities.Ramon Alikpala, executive director of the National Water Resources Board, said in a press conference yesterday that public places such as city [...]
Cote d’Ivoire: Clean up campaign for hospitals
03 Apr 08
ABIDJAN, 31 March 2008 (IRIN) - Hygiene in most hospitals in Cote d’Ivoire is so low that the ministry of health has launched a nationwide clean-up campaign. […] The director of public health Alexandre N’Guessan said he believed that most of the infections occur because medical waste has not been properly disposed of as health [...]
Angola: Flooding brings surge in cholera
02 Apr 08
Widespread flooding in southern Angola has been blamed for a surge in cholera, with 4,500 cases of the waterborne disease reported this year, and 150 fatalities.[…]“Stagnant ponds create further breeding sites for malaria-carrying mosquitoes; wells and latrines have been contaminated with floodwater, and local communities are cut off from their usual water sources. Without [...]
