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World Toilet Day

Below are some resources that may be useful for World Toilet Day. We will post these on the Environmental Health at USAID website and if you have others to include, please let me know.



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Added by Jaap Pels Global on November 22, 2010 at 12:00 — No Comments

PLoS Medicine and abstracts of 6 recently published articles

Below are links to the full-text of articles in the the water and sanitation policy series just published in PLoS Medicine and abstracts of 6 other recently published articles



1 - Bartram J, Cairncross S (2010)



Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health. …

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on November 16, 2010 at 16:00 — No Comments

Harvesting WATER from Air

Far away from the old innovative world, and farther from the knowledge about what is being done and what has already been … the people of Sub- Saharan Africa often suffer from acute water shortage and remain forced to collect water from long distant streams, that too badly contaminated by animals, thus spoiling all their times for water, and very less time left for other activities … cannot even dream of development. A wonderful innovation, as media reports, pertaining to air-water harvesting… Continue

Added by K N Vajpai on November 15, 2010 at 14:00 — No Comments

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) anno 2010

AT THE WORLD Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 2005, Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the idea of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a $100 PC that would transform education for the world’s disadvantaged schoolchildren by giving them the means to teach themselves and each other. He estimated that up to 150 million of these laptops could be shipped annually by the end of 2007.4 With $20 million in startup investment, sponsorships and partnerships with major IT industry players, and interest… Continue

Added by Jaap Pels Global on November 14, 2010 at 10:30 — No Comments

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WSA signs up with Malaysian company for technical support on sanitation

Water Sanitation for Africa (WSA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indah Water for technical know-how and consultancy services in sewerage management in African countries. WSA selected the Malaysian company “to be in a technical committee formed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to propose immediate, medium- and long-term solutions for sanitation services in WSA member countries”.

Kiribati’s North Tarawa declared first open defecation free island in the Pacific

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North Tarawa in Kiribati is the first island in the Pacific to be declared open defecation free, thanks to the “Kiriwatsan I Project”. The Ministry of Public Works is implementing this project with technical support from UNICEF and funding from the European Union. In March 2013, North Tarawa adopted the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach following a training of trainers course conducted by Dr Kamal Kar.

Megan Richie is SNV's new WASH Director

In March 2013, SNV appointed Megan Richie as Managing Director for Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). She leads SNV's global initiatives in the WASH sector. Prior to her appointment as Managing Director, Ms Richie served as Country Director for SNV in Lao PDR.

Brian Arbogast new WASH Director at Gates Foundation

Brian Arbogast is the new director of the Water, Sanitation & Hygiene program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He started work at the foundation on 13 May 2013. He takes over from Dr. Frank Rijsberman who acted as director until May 2012.

A central role for government in monitoring sustainable WASH services

Governments are not only investing more in national monitoring systems, but their leadership in country monitoring is also now generally accepted. With this acceptance, however, come expectations about good governance and transparency. Monitoring is politics: agendas and power influence what is monitored and how the results are used. National systems, too, go beyond WASH sector monitoring and should include data from donors and NGOs as well.

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