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Quel est l'état des droits des femmes au Burkina Faso?
Quels types d'effets est-ce que la mise en oeuvre du droit à l'assainissement aura sur les droits des femmes?
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On Thursday 4 December 2014, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands Water Partnership, the secretariat of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), Simavi and IRC organised an informal networking event to stress for the inclusion of access to water and sanitation in schools, health care centres and at the workplace in the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Christiaan Rebergen (Deputy Director-General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands), Ariette Brouwer (Director of Simavi) and Hielke Wolters (Managing Director of Aquanet) share their perspective on aid and trade and its contribution to universal water, sanitation and hygiene services during the IRC Event: 'The limits of aid, the future of trade'? The Hague, The Netherlands. 17 September 2014.
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Local governments have a crucial, and increasing role to play in the provision of rural and small town water services. Often, however, they struggle to take up these tasks. In this video, representatives of national government, district local government and WASH service providers from Ghana, Burkina Faso and Uganda share their viewpoints on the challenges, the way forward and the role of national governments and development partners in the support of local governments.
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In Uganda, local politicians often interfere with management of water supply facilities. They discourage water users from contributing the monthly operation and maintenance fees, arguing that government should provide free water to the population. This helps them win votes at election time. It is common to find water sources broken down for extended periods as the users wait for their elected leader to come and provide resources for repairs. In the meantime, they resort to unsafe water sources. Walalawo John Patrick, a local political leader in Apopong sub-county in Uganda did something different. When he sought support to get new water sources for his people, he was awakened to the fact that more than anything his constituents needed to revive and maintain existing water facilities.
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'Each year World Water Day is an opportunity for all actors to pay attention to the challenges that continue to hinder effective delivery of water services, especially to the rural population', says Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, country coordinator of the Triple-S initiative in Uganda. This video shows how stakeholder cooperation enhances water facilities.
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IRC has been an active member of Sanitation and Water for All Partnership since its beginning. Erma Uytewaal of IRC explains why she believes this partnership is important to improve the sustainability of water and sanitation services.
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Commissioner Eng Aaron Kabirizi discusses sub-county water boards as an approach for addressing operation and maintenance.
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Water For People adopted an approach of Everyone, Forever. This video presents the perspectives of the local stakeholders involved in that approach in the municipality of Chinda, Honduras. It is based on a study that IRC did of Water For People's approach there.
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Financing Post-Construction Support (direct support)", is a video documentary which explores various options and opportunities for post construction support for water and sanitation facilities in Ghana. It draws largely on efforts by two of IRC Ghana's programmes, the Triple-S and WASHCost projects in facilitating sector dialogue and innovations to addresses the situation.
This video was produced in collaboration with the Ghana Watsan Journalists Network.
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Sustaining water facilities in Ghana's rural areas is challenging. Villages are in charge of repairs, but often don't have the money for it.
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What if resources from all projects in a district were brought together? What if in addition to constructing water systems we also planned and financed for their operation and maintenance? A story about a fictitious district in the developing world, and what happened to its water supply.
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Governments cannot leave rural communities with the full responsibility for the management of their water supplies. Communities need support. This video is made for decision makers, but contains many interesting issues for everyone concerned with rural water supply.
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Paul Nyeko Ogiramoi explains how water supply and sanitation boards at local sub-county level can make community management work.
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Robert Otim, former Triple-S district learning facilitator in Uganda, discusses the capacity gap in addressing sustainable water services
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In Uganda 10 million people lack access to safe water. The Commissioner for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation says devolving water services closer to people and taking steps to improve functionality will achieve better services. Interview and recording by Peter McIntyre, Kabarole District, May 2013.
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'World Water Day is an opportunity for all actors to pay attention to the challenges that continue to hinder effective delivery of water services, especially to the rural population', says Jane Nabunnya Mulumba, country coordinator of the Triple-S initiative in Uganda. This video has been developed for World Water Day 2013 which was all around stakeholder cooperation.
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"I will see CWSA more as a regulator than an implementer of projects", says Mr Clement Bugase, Chief Executive Officer of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency. Mr Clement Bugase in video talks about the changing role of his institution as they seek to enhance its ability as a regulator more than a facilitator for the delivery of physical facilities.
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Behavioural change needs to happen at both user level and service provider level if water services are to remain sustainable. The Triple-S project promoted the need for rigorous learning processes for all water stakeholders in order to ensure services that last.
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How do you set a tariff for water in a small town in a developing country, so that people can afford to pay and there is enough money to sustain the service? Lamisi Dabire from Triple-S Ghana asks the Akatsi Water and Sanitation Board, in the Volga Region, Ghana.
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