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Comment by Bilal Javed on June 25, 2010 at 3:55

Dear Farhad,
The basic flaw in our system and thinking level is that we leave everything to the government, nothing could be done without communities. The local knowledge in our region regarding hygiene is as much as in any developed country the need is to trigger the knowledge and convert it in to applied knowledge. Government interest is of concern but the primary element is community involvement which is possible even without the involvement by the Government authorities. The Government could only finance the activities their execution is again on the communities. We should work in our personal circles to improve what we have now, because I firmly believe that change is always led by people not Governments.
Live long

Comment by Farhad Ali on June 24, 2010 at 10:49

WASH, combination of three sectors (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). All the NGO sector professionals are well aware on this and second the community participation is the leading flag of sustainable WASH.
Govt. agencies in Pakistan worked on WatSan (Water and Sanitation) and ignore the third dimension Hygiene, while the community Participation is also negligible in govt. concerns. WHY,
A question for all WASH and participatory believed professionals

Comment by Jaap Pels Global on June 23, 2010 at 15:08

Jer Colin (http://www.mywash.org/xn/detail/u_0ry9hrwgju54y?xg_source=profiles_...) might be interested. He does / did a research on networks for the WSSCC.