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In this episode Arabella Northey zooms in on the state of water, sanitation and hygiene in Nigeria and discusses the successes and challenges around monitoring progress, with Jonathan Ekhator (UNICEF), Kenneth Emeka Ogbonna (Federal Ministry of Water Resources) and Damilola Akamolafe (Federal Ministry of Water Resources).
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A reminder to our shared mission: ending poverty, fighting injustice. Safe water, clean toilets. It is not one person. It is not one sector. It takes the interest of all.
Let's continue breaking barriers, and build meaningful relationships.Together, we can create a world where everyone thrives.
At All systems go Africa, a symposium hosted by the Government of Ghana, IRC and UNICEF from 19-21 October, 2022 in Accra, Ghana, we jump started the Sub-Saharan Africa continental water, sanitation and hygiene strengthening agenda. Systems thinkers and public experts were united to challenge one another to make the changes required to achieve the ambitious water, sanitation and hygiene targets that have been set by national governments across the continent.
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Video sharing reflections from facilitators and participants of learning alliances in Ethiopia and Uganda
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Video highlighting innovative solutions to sanitation challenges in the flood-prone Kole district, in northern Uganda. The project was an initiative of the Ministry of Health, through the Uganda Sanitation Fund supported by the Sanitation Hygiene Fund (formerly the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council - WSSCC).
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This video highlights the interventions by Water for People together with the Ministry of Water and Environment and development partners to promote market-based sustainable sanitation solutions through Town Sanitation Plans. The case story is of Kole Town Council in northern Uganda. This initiative was supported by the Sanitation Hygiene Fund ( formerly the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council) and documented by IRC Uganda.
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A WASH system is made up of different people and organisations, so it's important that they all work well together. Enter the role of the Hub, a person or organisation that connects, coordinates, and unites people around a common vision. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone and learn about the importance of a hub.
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A vision of 100% access to water and sanitation is a powerful idea that many political leaders have won elections with. A systems approach requires us to know the importance of political buy-in and strong leadership. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone and learn about the importance of political buy-in and leadership.
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Achieving the sustainable development goal for water and sanitation is hard to imagine. The first step is to work out the steps needed to get there. Meet these systems agents driving the change required to ensure clean water and safe sanitation and hygiene for everyone.
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This video is addressing the faecal sludge management issue in Bamako district by giving the floor to all key actors to highlight their challenges and proposed solutions.
It calls for the Government to secure space in the city in order to build a faecal sludge treatment plant for better management
This video is meant for decision-makers, and as a citizen's information-sharing effort.
The video was produced with the purpose to call upon the government of Mali to take action in securing space to build a faecal sludge treatment plant in the district of Bamako. Because until today, faecal sludge is being discharged straight into the nature without any treatment, the wastewater finds its way to the Niger river basin
The Change we want to see is a better management system of the faecal sludge in Bamako district by building a treatment plant.
"Environmental degradation is the biggest threat of our time. It knows no colour, nor political affiliation." These were the sentiments expressed by Noeline Basemera, Woman MP Kibaale District. She was speaking during a meeting between Members of Parliament on the Natural Resources Committee and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working on issues of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Environment and Natural Resources (ENR).
The meeting was organised by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform the parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations on how the issues can be addressed effectively.
The MPs decried the rampant degradation of environment and natural resources, leading to a massive reduction in the quality and quantity of water available for domestic consumption and economic activities. Currently, 30% of the population in Uganda lacks access to safe water, while degradation of water bodies and deforestation continue unabated. In June 2018, the Water and Environment Sector Performance Report indicated that deforestation has led to the decline of forest cover from 24% in 1990 to 11% in 2015 and 9% in 2018. Regarding wetlands management, as of June 2018, 4.1% of wetlands in Uganda were reported as degraded and 2.6% completely lost.
MPs were of the conviction that much of the environmental degradation is attributable to poor governance, characterized by corruption, lack of transparency and integrity, wrongful allocation of protected water resources for development and failure to enforce rules and regulations. Apart from bad governance, MPs expressed concern about limited funding, noting that key interventions in WASH and IWRM are funded by external donors, with limited input from the government. Moreover, much of the funding is allocated to areas that do not have pressing issues or are already getting too much funding.
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'Political leadership is the 'sine qua non' to achieving success in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector.'..an absolute necessity. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources in Ghana, is an optimist. 'I am convinced that the targets are achievable. If we do the proper road mapping and engage all stakeholders who are involved in this delivery...to ensure that all people living, everywhere, in every nook and cranny are informed of the change we want.' Watch the video, and learn more about the steps Ghana is making towards delivering safe water and clean toilets for all.
This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.: https://www.ircwash.org/symposium
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To meet the goal of universal access of water and sanitation services (Sustainable Development Goal 6) we need to change the way we do business. It calls for us to learn from different areas outside water.
Peter Laugharn, CEO of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, takes us back to the times when he was working on the goal of 'education for all' - in the nineties in Mali,where he was working with Save the Children as deputy director of a field office. Times in which he learned the tough lessons of what it means to lack mandate, and the need to have a lon-term vision.
Lessons that are now being applied in Hilton's Safe Water Strategy its implementation with partners in districts like Asutifi-North in Ghana.
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This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
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'Not all problems in the health sector are solved, but appreciating that there is a system has supported us in how to do things.'
In this video, Dr Gilbert Buckle shares how applying a systems approach in the health sector and working on strengthening the building blocks that shape the system is helping to achieve the outcomes they want to see.
He made a call to those WASH professionals, wanting to address WASH in health care facilities: 'when you come to to hit me where I am, you need to understand 'my [health care] system' and you need to help me to use my system in the where it is, to achieve the objects of your various [WASH] system components. If not, we have a clash of systems.
Listen to Dr Gilbert Buckle and learn more about his work as public health physician and expert on health systems strengthening.
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This keynote speech was delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
https://www.ircwash.org/symposium
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In the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector there is not just one WASH system.
There are many systems. And they interact.
The physical system (the pumps, the pipes); the institutional systems, the political economy, and the social systems. Each of these sub-systems are complex in their own right. And working on these systems requires a sector that is able to talk across disciplines, and find a common language.
There is also the 'Shadow System': the corruption and lack of integrity that is integral to the sector and costs anywhere between 10-35% of the finances.
Barbara Schreiner and her team at WIN (Water Integrity Network) are responding to this 'Shadow System' by working on four areas: transparency, accountability, participation, and working on anti-corruption mechanisms at different levels. This to cement integrity, and keep out corruption in the sector.
Learn more from Barbara and her work as Executive Director of the Water Integrity Network (WIN).
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Keynote speech delivered at the All systems go! WASH systems symposium 12-14 March 2019.
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Sanitation services are responsible for the safe management of faecal sludge. Generally, this involves six main processes: capture, containment, emptying, transport, treatment and safe reuse or disposal. A sewer network can substitute the containment and emptying steps. Together, each of these steps ensure the proper management of faecal waste and are collectively known as the sanitation service chain. As a chain, a weakness in one link has implications on the performance of the entire sanitation service.For a service to be deemed safely managed, all human waste captured at the beginning must ultimately be safely reused or disposed of at the end of the chain. The principal goal being, to keep human faecal waste contained throughout the sanitation chain.
Applying a systems-strengthening approach to the sanitation chain means looking at the chain in its entirety—and making sure that each link is present and secure. It is only by ensuring that each segment of the sanitation chain works well that we can manage faecal waste properly, reduce environmental harm and health risks and ensure safe sanitation services that last for all.
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Le colloque international « vers l'hygiène et l'assainissement durables pour tous » s'est tenu les 20 et 21 septembre 2018 à Ouagadougou. A l'issue des travaux, les 180 participants ont échangé et partagé leurs expériences pour l'atteinte de l'accès universel à l'hygiène et à l'assainissement à l'horizon 2030. Ce film retrace les grands moments de cette rencontre.
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