Innovative reports from Stockholm
Follow news and video flashes on diverse topics of IRC and partners’ work, from seminars, the exhibition floor, and side events at the 2009 Stockholm World Water Week. Key topics include: Evaluating & Improving the WASH sector, Unite for children - WASH in schools, Sanitation for the Urban Poor, Unpacking the Business Case for Microfinance in Water and Sanitation and Manual Scavenging.
Harriette’s Highlights: Monday 17 August
18 Aug 09
Harriette Naa Lamiley Bentil normally writes stories for the Daily Graphic on the environment and sanitation particularly for Accra, the capital of Ghana. IRC sponsored her to bring in her local journalistic perspectives during the Stockholm Water Week. She is sharing her highlights from the day here. We also train her to use the small Flip video cameras and edit clips from that at the very successful Watercube.tv studio at Stockholm. Read her highlights from day 1.
Rabin Bastola talking about Nepal and water and sanitation know-how
17 Aug 09
WaterCube.tv in Stockhom talks with Rabin Bastola of the Resource Centre Network in Nepal (RCNN). This network shares knowledge in water and sanitation with local partner organisations. WaterCube talks with Rabin about the kind of information the RCNN is sharing - specifically ecological sanitation, which can dramatically improve health and living conditions for the poor. Rabin talks here with Mark Charmer of Akvo. Stockholm World Water Week, Sunday 16 August 2009.
Unite for children: WASH in schools
16 Aug 09
Donors and national governments should include schools as part of their overall water and sanitation programmes. This was a key conclusion from the "WASH in Schools" session organised by UNICEF and IRC on Sunday, 16 August 2009. See a video on what Evarista Koussi-Komlan from UNICEF in Madagascar says about taking action at home.
