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Video sharing reflections from facilitators and participants of learning alliances in Ethiopia and 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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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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WASH is about systems. But does the systems approach work? How? And is it worth the effort? How can we accelerate adoption of the systems approach? In this video the effectiveness of systems approach is discussed and showing how IRC in Uganda is working with different actors to improve WASH service delivery.
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SDG 6 can only be achieved if stakeholders from different sectors come together to find collective solutions to the challenges. What makes these multi-stakeholder platforms a success? how do they last? and who is actually in charge of them? In this video blog, Jeroen Warner from Wageningen University, shares the ins and outs of multi-stakeholder platforms.
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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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We rely on complex systems, but we are "systems blind". Patrick Moriarty at TedXDenHelder, talking about the need to wake up and open our eyes and realize that in reality, strong systems are the most sustainable solution.
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In Uganda, IRC is supporting local and national government to ensure that people get better water, sanitation and hygiene services. We believe that government needs to be empowered to create systems that make these services sustainable. We are working with WaterAid and Water For People in an alliance called WASH Agenda for Change to make this happen.
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In the Ugandan district of Kabarole, IRC is working to support local government create sustainable water and sanitation services and assisting to sustain them.
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Highlights from the first day, 21 June 2016, of the Kampala WASH symposium, which brought together the 21st SuSanA Meeting and the 2016 WASH Sustainability Forum.
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Harold Lockwood, giving a testimony to Ton's life at the USAID Co-creation workshop in Washington D.C. Harold and Ton got to know each other since the 1999s early 2000, both forming part of the Thematic Group on Scaling-Up Community Management for Rural Water Supply, and worked together off and on, ever since.
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The Triple-S Initiative was conceived in 2009 with the aim of contributing towards improved sustainability of rural water supply services. This video tells the story of the Triple-S Initiative in Uganda.
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If you could start from scratch and design a new WASH sustainability tool, what would it look like? Participants from the 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum share their ideas on the principles of their ideal WASH sustainability tool. The 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum brought together over 150 participants from nearly 30 countries to discuss concrete approaches to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sustainability. The Forum took place in Amsterdam, on 30 June and 1 July.
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On 30 June and 1 July 2014 practical tools to keep water and sanitation systems running were discussed at the 2014 WASH Sustainability Forum. Watch a video impression of the first day.
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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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WASHTech aims to facilitate cost effective investments in technologies for sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene services.
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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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