WASH News South Asia
News feed maintained by information specialists from IRC and partners.
India, Bihar: rapes ’caused by lack of toilets’
13 May 13
The lack of safe toilets for women and girls is often linked to an increased risk of sexual harassment and rape. Earlier studies [1] from Kenya, Uganda and India, and now a recent BBC news item are some of the few sources …Continue reading →
Sri Lanka: new partnership tackles fecal sludge management
13 May 13
An international research institute is helping the government of Sri Lanka to improve septage management in the country. On 8 May 2013, the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage signed a Memorandum …Continue reading →
India, New Delhi: garbage trucks to be fitted with GPS and radio devices
29 Mar 13
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: Big brother will soon be watching over garbage truck drivers in East Delhi once the local municipal corporation installs an electronic tracking system. The East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) plans to install global positioning system (GPS) …Continue reading →
BRAC WASH offers to help half a million Indian imams promote hygiene
25 Mar 13
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: On WaterCouch.tv, Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp shares a practical example of international water cooperation that emerged during the 2013 World Water Day celebrations in The Hague, The Netherlands. In one of the sessions, BRAC WASH programme director Dr …Continue reading →
Water and sanitation crusader killed in Karachi attack
25 Mar 13
Reblogged from Sanitation Updates: Perveen Rahman, director of the Orangi Pilot Project Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday 13 March 2013. The internationally acclaimed and widely replicated project that she led, succeeded in bringing …Continue reading →
Participatory monitoring in the BRAC WASH II programme in Bangladesh
26 Feb 13
“What is good about the monitoring system that we are using is that it is participatory so that respondents also get knowledge”, says Senior Sector Specialist Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Mahjabeen Ahmed of the BRAC WASH II Programme. Ms Ahmed …Continue reading →
An interview with Babar Kabir on the BRAC WASH programme
21 Feb 13
Babar Kabir is the Senior Director at BRAC and programme director of the BRAC WASH programme. He talks to IRC’s Joep Verhagen about this huge programme, the importance of the Village WASH Committee, and emerging sanitation innovations. Could you briefly …Continue reading →
Making sense of sanitation monitoring in Bangladesh
21 Feb 13
Innovative monitoring tools such as the Qualitative Information System (QIS), sanitation ladders and SenseMaker® are being used in a programme that seeks to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to almost 55 million people in Bangladesh. Continue reading →
Bangladesh: a field tool for sanitation marketing surveys
05 Feb 13
Consultant-led sanitation marketing surveys typically take months to produce a thick report with largely impractical recommendations. The IRC International Water and Sanitation is developing a field tool that delivers, within just one week, a one-page overview matching sanitation supply and …Continue reading →
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre signs MoU with India’s premier civil services training and research centre
08 Jan 13
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, The Netherlands, and India’s National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR) are joining forces on capacity development and action research. On 18 December 2012 the two institutes signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New …Continue reading →
