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Representatives from programmes in Latin America and Asia shared successes and failures. Read more...
The BRAC WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) programme aims to reach 37 million people with hygiene education and promotion. A paper describes three community-based aspects of hygiene education: through Imams, schools and folk media. Read more...
BRAC plans to expand its scope beyond WASH to water security and from rural to urban areas, as well as moving from service provider to facilitator. Read more...
The goal of the IRC - Water For People alliance is, by 2030, to serve 20 million people locally, reach 200 million nationally and influence change... Read more...
We have started the final year for reaching the Millennium Development Goals, including the one aiming to provide safe water for and access to sanitation for half the world population. The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme of BRAC is one of the largest sanitation implementation... Read more...
Informing Local Government Institutes about the strategy and how to adopt action plans for the implementation of the strategy. Read more...
As part of the new Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for 2011-2013 for Cambodia, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is planning a US$ 27 million loan and a US$ 800,000 technical assistance grant for the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation III project. Source : ADB Country Operations Business Plan :... Read more...
Water resources management, equitable access and hygiene receive due attention. Read more...
Over 37 million people, including the "ultra-poor", have gained access to hygienic household sanitation in Bangladesh. Both donors and the government praise the success of the BRAC WASH programme. 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...
A US bottled water exporter that had enjoyed a de facto tax free status in the Pacific island nation of Fiji since 1995, has finally been forced to pay up. Once dubbed as "bottled insanity" by environmentalists, FIJI Water has been linked to tax evasion, political intrigue, and greenwashing. Water... Read more...
Improving the performance of the WASH sector to achieve services for life requires change within organisations and sector institutions. Such change cannot be achieved with standardised one-off training for individual staff. A short paper describes our experience in Indonesia with Capacity Self-... Read more...
The 2014 update on Progress on Sanitation and Drinking-Water (WHO and UNICEF, 2014) mentions that between 1990 and 2012, open defecation decreased from 24 per cent to 14 per cent globally. However, the update also states that more than one third of the global population – some 2.5 billion people —... Read more...
Next week, the Dutch parliament will discuss the multi-annual collaboration plans for its bilateral development cooperation with some 15 partner countries. This could be a pretty dull and technical affair, were it not for the fact that these plans give an interesting insight into what the end of... Read more...
How and why businesses in the Safe Water 2 programme do their monitoring. Read more...
In the Safe Water II programme (2015-2018) we map tools and approaches that local businesses in household water treatment products use to start and scale up their business. Read more...