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Capacity self-assessment workshop in Indonesia

Great programmes need great organisations behind them

Published on: 26/11/2015
For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically.

Spreading the sanitation message in Indonesia

Can success be scaled?

Published on: 26/11/2015
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale...

Village monitoring

How are you and how is your loo?

Published on: 11/09/2014
In many parts of the world it is not done to ask questions about someone’s loo or toilet. It is not discussed among neighbours or friends. Usually that is the case in places where sanitation works perfectly and is not considered anything special.

SHAW partners attending sharing and learning meeting in Biak, June 2014

Sustainability: an afterthought or...

Published on: 01/07/2014
Everyone is committed to providing sustainable access to sanitation facilities and to work towards sustainable changes in hygiene behaviour and practices, and still long lasting improvements are often not realised. Despite good intentions projects and programmes tend to focus more on achieving...