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Comment fait-on quand on n'a pas de toilettes à la maison? Se soulager en plein air n'est pas aussi simple qu'on pourrait le penser, en particulier pour les femmes. Ceci est une histoire sur les défis auxquels les femmes font face quotidiennement quand elles n'ont pas d'autre choix que celui de se soulager en plein air.
Rencontre avec Asmao Diallo de la commune rurale de Gorgadji, dans la région du Sahel au Burkina Faso. Comme 94% de la population dans les zones rurales du Burkina Faso, sa famille n'avait pas de toilettes à domicile. Ce n'est que récemment qu'ils en ont enfin eu. Dans cette vidéo, Mme Diallo explique les défis et les risques auxquels elle faisait face chaque jour à la recherche d'un endroit pour se soulager. Elle nous fait part également du changement que la décision du père de famille de construire des latrines traditionnelles, a produit dans sa vie.
Cette vidéo est la première d'une série de trois qui visent à donner une voix aux femmes vivant dans les communautés rurales du Burkina Faso, où les femmes ont rarement l'occasion d'exprimer leurs préoccupations quant à la défécation en plein air, et encore moins dans la prise de décisions des ménages sur la construction des latrines.
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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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C'est un moment important dans le combat pour des services adéquats d'eau potable et d'assainissement en Afrique de l'Ouest. A l'appel d'IRC et du Programme Solidarité Eau pSEau, environ deux cents professionnels et autorités du secteur de l'eau potable et de l'assainissement, venus de 32 pays d'Afrique et du reste du monde, francophones et anglophones, ont rallier Ouagadougou les 7 ,8 et 9 avril 2014. L'objet de cet important rassemblement est le séminaire sur le suivi-évaluation des services locaux d'eau potable et d'assainissement dans les zones rurales et villes secondaires. Faire du suivi-évaluation un outil intégré dans la planification, la gestion et les mécanismes de prises de décisions des autorités et professionnels au niveau local, tel est le défi que les participants ont décidé de relever au cours des années à venir.
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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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Video blog by Nicolas Dickinson, ICT and monitoring specialist, on the SMARTerWASH project in Ghana.
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Ghana is experiencing economic growth. Donors say that more domestic generated resources need to be raised and channeled to the water and sanitation sector. At the same time there is a decentralisation of responsibilities for water and sanitation to the municipal level. This video outlines the challenges with funding both at national and at decentralised level.
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How can public and private finance be two complementary pieces of the same puzzle in the water and sanitation sector. Compilation video of the IRC Event on public finance. 12 November 2014, 7AM, The Hague, The Netherlands. 12 November 2014
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A travers la description des tâches quotidiennes du technicien communal de la communede Gorgadji, dans le Sahel burkinabè, cette vidéo illustre les principales problématiques du suvi communal. Dans le cadre du programme USAID WA-WASH, IRC appui la commune de Gorgadji dans la maitrise d'ouvrage de son service d'eau potable.
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Este video presenta el enfoque de costos del ciclo de vida y el motivo por el cual se desarrolló. Ofrece además una explicación de los principales componentes de los costos de agua y saneamiento en áreas rurales y periurbanas.
El video fue producido en el marco del proyecto WASHCost.
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Roel Martens, Senior Advisor at the Directorate-General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands shares his 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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Joop Colsen, Founder of Colsen BV, shares his 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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Wout Korving, co-founder and senior advisor of RebelGroup, shares his 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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Sascha Gabizon, Director WECF, shares her 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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IRC's Patrick Moriarty shares his 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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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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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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In most countries in West Africa, involvement of local authorities has increased over the past years to ensure the provision of basic services, among them drinking water and sanitation. Municipalities are now in charge of planning, organizing, managing, regulating and monitoring. Especially around monitoring a lot of work still has to be done. What exactly is monitoring and evaluation? What are the benefits? Who is in charge of monitoring in municipalities? and what support do municipalities get in developing monitoring systems? This film tries to answer these questions by letting those involved in water and sanitation services in rural areas speak.
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Au Burkina Faso, comme dans la plupart des pays du continent africain, l’implication des autorités locales s’est grandement accrue ces dernières années pour assurer la fourniture des services de base dont l’eau potable et l’assainissement. La commune a désormais en charge la planification, l’organisation, la gestion, la régulation et le suivi-évaluation des services. Concernant le suivi-évaluation, force est de constater que le vaste chantier est encore en friche. En quoi consiste justement ce suivi-évaluation ? Quel intérêt présente-t-il dans la gouvernance des services ? Qui se charge de ce suivi-évaluation dans les communes ? De quels appuis bénéficient les communes pour développer ce suivi-évaluation ?
Le film tente de répondre à cette série de questions complexes en donnant la parole aux acteurs impliqués dans l’approvisionnement en services d’eau potable et d’assainissement en milieu rural : acteurs communaux, opérateurs privés, administration publique et ONG.
Le film, au-delà des témoignages, se veut un outil stimulant la réflexion sur les enjeux et les problématiques du suivi-évaluation communal qui seront examinés au cours des travaux du séminaire international sur le suivi-évaluation des services locaux d’eau potable et d’assainissement en Afrique de l’ouest, prévu à Ouagadougou, du 7 au 9 avril 2014.
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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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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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