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Strengthening mutual accountability in partnerships for WASH. Pt 2: Summary of six country case studies

More emphasis is needed on building and strengthening the work of multi-stakeholder platforms in WASH at the national level.
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Climate change, water resources and WASH systems

WASH system strengthening is climate action and WASH must be a core component of climate financing and adaptation strategies.
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Figure from WFP publication on sanitation microfinance

Microfinance as a potential cataylst for improved sanitation

Published on: 15/01/2014
Water for People (WfP) determines that microfinance helps release public funds to reach the poorest.

SWITCH in the city : putting urban water management to the test

A tale of 12 cities. Which concerns and hopes do city planners, water sector specialists and researchers have for the future. Google scholar
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Senegal: behavioral determinants of handwashing with soap - emergent learning

Published on: 26/03/2012
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Learning Note found that beliefs and ease of access to soap and water were correlated with handwashing with soap behaviors for given proxy measures among mothers and caretakers in Peru and Senegal.

“Does help help?” is the wrong question

Published on: 12/12/2011
I have argued at times for the need for post-construction support to rural water supply, and so have various publications from IRC and others over the past decade. However, there has been critique to this, stating that there is little evidence that shows that such help helps improving rural water...

Reunión de barrio en Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Proyecto SWITCH: poniendo a prueba la gestión de los recursos hídricos urbanos

Published on: 21/11/2011
Sustainable Water Management ImprovesTomorrow's Cities Health (SWITCH) es un programa de investigación-acción, co-financiado por la Unión Europea, coordinado por UNESCO - IHE, en el cual participó IRC como una de 33 instituciones de 15 países de Europa, África, Asia y América Latina. Surgió como...

Stakeholder meeting in the favela's of Belo Horizonte, Brasil

SWITCH in the city: putting urban water management to the test

Published on: 04/11/2011
The SWITCH project was a five year experiment focused on some of the key sustainability challenges in urban water management. In a number of cities around the globe, it set out to test what was needed for a transition to more sustainable urban water management through a combination of demand-led...

Indicating SWITCH study area in Belo Horizonte, Brasil

Governance of environmental sanitation in Latin American cities

Published on: 09/08/2011
Cities in Latin America face a double challenge in environmental sanitation, of both providing access to basic water supply and sanitation for those currently lacking that, and improving the collection and treatment of wastewater and solid waste. Governance is a crucial factor affecting the way in...

Alternatives to waterborne sanitation : a comparative study : limits and potentials

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Building inclusive sanitation markets for the poor : paper presented at the IRC symposium ‘Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Partnerships and Governance’, 19 – 21 November 2008, Delft, the Netherlands

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Gobernabilidad e infraestructura hídrica urbana; un caso de estudio de Lima, Perú

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The value of environmental sanitation : case studies

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[Taller de saneamiento escolar y educacion higienica en America Latina : trabajos]

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School sanitation and hygiene education in Latin America : summary report of a workshop on problems and options for improvement, Cali, Colombia, 22-27 March 1993

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