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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.
Read more...Western-central municipality is first in Nepal to achieve TBC in Hygiene and Sanitation. Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have set up a joint trust fund to expand non-sewered sanitation and septage management solutions across Asia. The Gates Foundation will invest US$ 15 million into the new Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund, which... Read more...
The 'Value at the end of the Sanitation Value-chain' (VeSV) project aims to develop and adopt business models for a low cost, safe method for the collection and processing of faecal sludge from pit latrines; a method that can be operated by local entrepreneurs and results in the production of a... Read more...
The Sanitation Technology for Enterprises (SANTE) applied research project aims to identify safe sustainable solutions for sanitation in high water table areas, rocky areas and flood prone areas in Bangladesh. Read more...
In the three Northwest provinces of Dien Bien, Lao Cai and Lai Chau in Vietnam, with some of the highest poverty and lowest access to services in the nation, the SSH4A project is working to increase capacity and provide tools and expertise. Read more...
The BRAC WASH programme has helped establish 80,000 Village WASH Committees, whose members are so engaged they're even going into politics. Read more...
A sanitation project's work is not finished with the installation of a pit latrine. What happens a year or two later, when the latrine is full? Read more...
Reflections by Dr Christine Sijbesma and Mahjabeen Ahmed on the QIS monitoring system. Read more...
BRAC's WASH activities reach more than 30 million people, and the Village WASH Committee (VWC) plays a crucial role. Read more...
A sub-district chairman and a schoolteacher/imam in Chittagong, Bangladesh talk to Dick de Jong about their roles in WASH delivery. Read more...
Faecal sludge from millions of pit latrines around the world is being dumped indiscriminately. What can be done to stop this new sanitation challenge? Read more...
Everywhere in the world, even the poorest families try to beautify their houses. Then why are low-cost latrines often so ugly, ask IRC's Christine Sijbesma and Erick Baetings. Read more...
March 8th, is International Women's Day. A new SNV video, shares stories about women’s participation, leadership and their changing roles in promoting sanitation and hygiene in Nepal, Bhutan and Viet Nam. The video is from the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All Programme, a partnership... Read more...
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.
Read more...Joep Verhagen quizzes BRAC's senior director and the BRAC WASH programme director about a range of WASH issues and innovations. Read more...
Innovative monitoring tools are being used to provide sustainable sanitation and hygiene services to almost 55 million people in Bangladesh. Read more...
Innovative research on the potential of turning the faecal waste from millions of pit latrines in Bangladesh into fertiliser, biogas and electricity. Read more...
Consultant-led sanitation marketing surveys typically take months to produce a thick report with largely impractical recommendations. The IRC International Water and Sanitation is developing a field tool that delivers, within just one week, a one-page overview matching sanitation supply and demand. Read more...