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Video sharing reflections from facilitators and participants of learning alliances in Ethiopia and Uganda
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USAID Transform WASH is helping government establish businesses and create jobs. These businesses serve a potentially huge sanitation market. However, they also have low profit margins and they need substantial support. Transform WASH is bringing new products and business practices to try and improve the prospects of businesses. This video shows the progress of one of the latrine slab production associations established in Shashogo woreda of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) region of Ethiopia .
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Using an asset inventory tool to improve water services in South Ari woreda in Ethiopia.
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Creating a favorable school environment for girls fosters their education. Raising awareness around the importance of menstrual hygiene management is important to break the taboos around menstruation and to take actions in order for girls to stay in schools.
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As part of the World Water Day 2016 events focused on 'water and jobs' the National Self Supply Task Force organised the 2016 My Water, My Business Fair to bring attention to the efforts of households to improve their own WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) situation. This built on a similar event in 2015. A seminar on 22 March 2016 brought together organisations and individuals that seek to help people help themselves through the Self-supply approach. At a parallel fair, Ethiopian enterprises showcased their low-cost products.This short film provides a summary of the event and debates.
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Micheal Abera talks about the collaboration between IRC and HOAREC in the work on a baseline study for UNICEF on water, sanitation and hygiene across small towns in Ethiopia.
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The private sector has a key role to play in the delivery of water, sanitation and hygiene services in Ethiopia. There are however constraints - barriers that are hindering private sector involvement. A study carried out by IRC for UNICEF has identified these bottlenecks and the way they can be addressed.
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As part of the World Water Day 2015 events organised in Addis Ababa, the My Water, My Business events brought attention to the efforts of households to improve their own water supplies. This included the 'Self-supply Seminar: promoting local initiative and business to help all Ethiopian's access safe water supplies' on 20 March 2015 and a parallel fair where Ethiopian enterprises showcased their low-cost products. This short film provides a brief summary of the event and debates including a call to support Ethiopia's efforts in Self-supply acceleration from HE Kebebe Gerba, State Minister.
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The second of two short films on Self-supply by Abraham Hailu focuses on the regional level, taking the example of SNNPR. This is one of the regions moving ahead with implementation of the Self-supply acceleration approach.
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The first of two new short films about Self-supply made by the renowned local film-maker Abraham Haile, working for IRC in association with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy and the Millennium Water Alliance. This film has a national focus and features the State Minister HE Kebede Gerba, amongst others, making a powerful case for Self-supply.
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Tamene Hailu (Ministry of Water and Energy, Ethiopia) talks about the inventory carried out to provide new data on water supply schemes in urban and rural areas, sanitation and hygiene practices of households, and the status of water supply and sanitation facilities at health institutions and schools.
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Self-supply is a huge market. Tens of thousands of households in Ethiopia have already made their own investments in their private water supplies. MFIs can make a huge difference if they would support households with small loans to improve their family wells.
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