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What could the proceeds of one golden toilet achieve for reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6.2? Read more...
Sparking growth in the sanitation market in Ethiopia has proven to be quite a roller coaster ride, full of twists, turns, and surprises. Read more...
The April 2019 quarterly held National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform Meeting chaired by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) aimed at forwarding solutions for challenges in the implementation of sanitation marketing, mainly financing options for households and sanitation... Read more...
So what are we talking about? Sanitation and Hygiene Read more...
AfricaSan5 just like a five-year old, reflects a sanitation and hygiene sector that is nowhere near mature, but is growing up fast and is full of ambition. Read more...
A story of solidarity across continents Read more...
Too little attention is paid to the impact of solid waste on water and sanitation. Read more...
Let's focus on who pays for what all along the sanitation service delivery chain. Read more...
Inspired by World Water Week 2018 we talked with Cheryl Hicks of the Toilet Board Coalition about attracting alternative finance into the sanitation chain. Read more...
What is needed to promote behaviour change along the sanitation value chain? Report of a WASH Debate. Read more...
What would universal access to water and sanitation look like by 2030? Read more...
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us. Read more...
Due to the absence of active and participatory platforms for coordination, WASH sector actors – woreda head, offices of women and children's affairs, health, education, water, agriculture and finance – have shown a reluctance to implement WASH activities together. Regrettably, this lack of... Read more...
"People used to make fun of me saying, 'Do you really expect us to pay 350 birr for this toy you molded while we can get it for free?'" says Tesfaye Lemanche, Chair of Data Concrete Slab production Association. Read more...
Minister Kaag komt in een gespreid bedje om aan de streefwaarden voor haar water en sanitatie doelstellingen te voldoen. Maar voor de lange termijn moet er een tandje bij, met name voor sanitatie. Read more...
Dutch-funded programmes collectively develop capacity to free one million people from open defecation. Read more...
Budget cuts could prevent the country becoming open defecation free by 2019. Read more...
It's the final day of the design summit, and we're all a bit weary but energized to see the fruits of all this labor. When we started our 10-day journey with MIT, it felt to me like a long time to spend in a workshop. But as the summit progressed, I realized that we could easily spend a month... Read more...
Day 6 at the USAID Transform WASH Design Summit began like every day, with Morning Circle. This is a moment to set the mood, reflect, have a bit of fun, and make announcements about the day. The group is large with 35 participants plus Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Design Lab... Read more...
When we set out to transform the WASH sector in Ethiopia, I knew it would be a fascinating journey. But, our Transform WASH Design Summit, organized by PSI/Ethiopia and led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) D-Lab here in Hawassa, took us to an entirely new place. Read more...