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During a field visit we observed some seriously big and fancy toilets in a rural village. Read more...
Today we were told that the Siem Reap (or Angkor Wat) half marathon has a clear finish line, but that it is unlikely that anyone of us will reach that mile stone. Read more...
For the WASH sector as a whole to achieve greater impact, more organisations must address their gaps in organisational capacity and will need to embrace capacity development holistically and more systematically. Read more...
Implementing a highly successful rural sanitation and hygiene programme in East Indonesia has taught us some important lessons. The most relevant being that approaches designed and applied to implement a successful programme are not necessarily scalable. We learned that to be able to work at scale... Read more...
During the last WEDC conference in Hanoi, IRC and Aguaconsult organised a side event to discuss how different service delivery models are combined to provide universal and better access to rural water. Read more...
This second blogpost of three on urban sanitation in Indonesia describes the mismatch between policy and practice. Politicians have set the ambitious target to make Indonesia open defecation free by 2019, but a recent visit to Indonesian municipalities makes me wonder whether striving for the end... Read more...
I've just come back from a brief trip to Indonesia to learn from the Urban Sanitation Development Program (USDP), arguably one of the most interesting programs out there for those interested in large-scale change in urban sanitation. In a series of three blogposts, I will discuss this program, its... Read more...
It would be easy, and wrong, to say that global conferences rarely deliver results, for sometimes they offer brand new ways of seeing things. Read more...
Over the past year, there has been quite a bit of buzz in the WASH sector on the sustainability clause that DGIS seeks to include in its contacts with implementers. The pros and cons of this have been widely debated . A key component of the clauses is to have sustainability checks as a way to... Read more...
A question from the floor at a Rockefeller Foundation meeting raised some interesting thoughts about MUS vs MDGs. Read more...
Why are so many developing countries doing so badly in providing all their citizens with good sanitation, asks Prof. Duncan Mara, University of Leeds? The technical solutions and finances are available, but aid agencies need to focus more on technical training and technical assistance. Read more...
