SNV and IRC have been active in Bhutan in the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All project, a capacity building approach, supporting local government to lead and accelerate progress towards district-wide sanitation coverage with a focus on institutional sustainability and learning. Work revolves around a number of specific components one of which is hygiene behaviour change communication. Currently a learning event, organised by SNV, IRC and the Ministry of Health, on this topic is underway in Paro, Bhutan. Apart from this activity, IRC is also involved in a study, which attempts to correlate changes in behaviour and the costs invested by the Bhutan government to bring about this change in Samtse district. This study will be conducted for the next two years. The results of this study will provide information to the government on what practices are worth replicating in other districts.
Resources, Works and Housing, has disclosed that the government has funded 20,000 borehole projects at the total cost of GH¢17 million from the Consolidated Fund, over the last five-years.
Ghana's Minister for Water Resources, Works and Housing has urged stakeholders in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to focus more on long-term sustainable service approach than the one-off project-based method.
Written by Edmund Smith-Asante for Graphic Online Ghana, GhanaWeb and Environment News Ghana - 'The government of Ghana is currently funding 20,000 borehole water supply projects with GH¢17 million from the Consolidated Fund over a five-year period, the Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has said' during a forum which also marked the end of the "Sustainable Services at Scale" (Triple-S) project.
Published by Ghana News Agency - Alhaji Collins Dauda, Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing has lauded the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) for supporting Ghana's socio-economic development through its innovative projects.
Ambitions for water, sanitation and hygiene are high. The sustainable development goals will require governments' leadership and money. An article for the Guardian jointly written by IRC and WSSCC.
2015 is the year that the Millennium Development Goals make way for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). An important role in both development agendas is reserved for water, sanitation and hygiene issues that leave much to be desired in many countries. OneWorld dived into the world of development and looks back and ahead with retired expert Jo Smet – who in 35 years of work has seen the necessary Western policymakers and developments in the field of water and sanitation pass by. Original article in Dutch was published on 17 January 2015 at One World by Hidde Jansen.
BRAC's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programme -BRAC WASH enables millions of people in rural Bangladesh to achieve safe and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene. It provides direct support to communities, stimulates demand for sanitation and behaviour change and trains Village WASH Committees to transform rural life for the next generation.
Behaviour change lies at the heart of the WASH programme of the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance (BRAC) organisation, using an approach 'selling not telling'. Recent monitoring of the programme shows that 90% of the involved households report that all family members use the latrine and 80% has soap and water in or near the latrine for hand washing.
Two Dutch non-governmental organisations, IRC and Simavi, want the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on universal access to water and sanitation to be expanded to schools, clinics and work place. The pledge was announced during a meet & greet event with the steering commission of the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) in the Hague, the Netherlands, on 4 December. A photo impression of the Meet&Greet for SWA delegation and Dutch WASH sector: http://en.simavi.nl/about-simavi/news/a-photo-impression-of-the-meet-and-greet-for-swa-delegation-and-dutch-wash-sector/
