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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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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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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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"Toilets with systems? What a bunch of nerds." This poo hopes nothing will change on World Toilet Day – but IRC know how to take care of him permanently.
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In 2008, the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All programme started supporting the government of Bhutan in developing a new approach to sanitation and hygiene. The programme focuses on fostering positive hygiene behaviour change, building demand for improved sanitation, encouraging private sector solutions, and developing effective WASH governance at all levels. It builds on what the community has already accomplished in other areas.
After seven years, there is wide spread recognition that the approach works really well and has been fully endorsed by the Ministry of Health in 2010. With the help of SNV, UNICEF and the Red Cross, the programme has now reached nine of the twenty districts, mobilising families and communities to invest in improved sanitation, without subsidies. To date, 24 sub-districts have reached 100% access to improved sanitation. The government of Bhutan has now made sanitation and hygiene a priority, committing to increasing rural access to improved sanitation and hygiene from 54% to more than 80% by 2018. While this is a big step in the right direction, there is not enough funding available to support this commitment.
Mr. Rinchen Wangdi, Chief of the Public Health Engineering Division said, "Achieving the goals Bhutan has set will require strong leadership and investment from the government (an investment of USD 2.7 per person leads to improved sanitation and hygiene practices district-wide). This means prioritising sanitation and hygiene in budgets, in plans, and in the minds of our local leaders." He added, "If we can do that, we can achieve universal access in Bhutan."
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Every day BRAC WASH programme staff get into communities to organise group meetings and go from door to door to advance the concepts of hygienic latrines, safe water and cleanliness.
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What do you do when you don't have a toilet at home? Relieving oneself out in the open is not as simple as one might think, especially for women. This is a story on the challenges women face on a daily basis when they've got no choice but to relieve themselves out in the open.
Meet Asmao Diallo, from the rural community of Gorgadji, in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso. Like 94% of Burkina Faso's rural population, her family did not have a toilet at home- until recently. In this video, Ms Diallo explains the challenges and risks she faced every day in the search of a place to relieve herself, as well as how the père de famille's decision to build a traditional latrine changed her life.
This video is the first in a series of three that aim to give a voice to Burkina Faso's women living in rural communities, where women rarely have the opportunity to express their concerns about defecating in the open, and where women barely have a say in making household decisions on the construction of a latrine.
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This documentary music video, featuring local artists Shadow, J-Glo, 5YA, Jacob-V and Chiller Coolnaneee, draws attention to sanitation problems in post-war Liberia. It is an output of the international participatory action research network, Giving Voice to Hope (GV2H). This network includes Liberian artists and media companies, the University of Alberta's Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology and the Centre for the Cross Cultural Study of Health & Healing, the Edmonton-based Rhodes Recordings, and charities such as the NYC-based GroundUp Global and the Liberia-based Center for Youth Empowerment. The Rotary Club of Calgary funded this video project as part of a series entitled "Songs for sustainable development and peace".
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This short video from the BRAC WASH programme highlights their ongoing study in Bangladesh on the use of faecal sludge from double pit latrines as organic fertiliser.
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Women tell how WASH Committees have helped to introduce sanitation in their villages in Bangladesh. This video was produced by the BRAC WASH Programme for World Toilet Day 2013,
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This video highlights the activities and achievements of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh, which started in 2007.
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A comical Ugandan advert promoting the use of clean toilets called Kayonjos.
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WASHTech aims to facilitate cost effective investments in technologies for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services.
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The BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh has brought safe sanitation to millions of families. Now, as pit latrines start to fill up, it is seeking ways to turn the faecal matter into safe fertiliser and energy. Baba Kabir, director of the programme outlines the plan.
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WASHCost Mozambique managed to calculate the estimated total costs for building a traditional latrine. The cost data shows that families are massively contributing to improving public health. The data also shows that promotion of hygiene and sanitation is really worth the effort.
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Nana Safrotwe Kakradae IV, a king in Ghana, shows the area and explains how this public toilet project freed Edipa fom Open Defecation.
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Three women share their stories about participation, leadership and changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video was made to celebrate International Women's Day and features Mayadevi and Kaman (Nepal), Toan and Thinh (VietNam) and Tshering, Drukda, Tashi and Deschen (Bhutan).
The video is from SNV's Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme (SSH4A), which has been implemented by local governments and partners in 17 districts across Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia since 2008. It aims to provide one million people with access to improved hygiene and sanitation facilities by the end of 2015. As the approach aims at addressing access to sanitation for all, addressing gender issues and inequalities is key. SSH4A is a partnership between SNV, the Governments of the Netherlands, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Viet Nam and Cambodia in Asia and IRC with support from AusAID and DFID.
The QIS monitoring system that is being used gives special attention to gender and sanitation. First because many of the indicators differentiate between women and men. Secondly because data collection for each sample is duplicated by a male and a female monitoring team. Interestingly, preliminary results show that virtually all the male and female monitoring teams members gave the same scores for the gender indicators.
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