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Ensuring rural water services that last: Lessons from a 13-country study

Approximately one in three rural water supply systems in developing countries does not function at all or is performing well below its expected level. Failure on this scale represents hundreds of millions of dollars in wasted investment and millions of people who have had to return to fetching dirty drinking water from distant sources - to the detriment of their health, education, and livelihoods.

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 20, 2011 at 13:30 — No Comments

One Page Practical Guides on Knowledge Sharing Techniques

Short and sweet one pagers on knowledge sharing techniques. Feel free to reuse or distribute them in your training events.

> Communities of Practice

> After Action Reviews and Retrospects…

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 20, 2011 at 12:41 — No Comments

To challenge your serendipity ....

..... and out-of-the-box thinking two documents:

 

- One on Wirearchy: In that context of ubiquitous impact, reams have been written about the erosion of the effectiveness of command-and control as the dominant model for leading and managing purposeful organized activities in business, education, government and governance, politics, culture and the arts … all the areas in which humans act together to create and get things…

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 20, 2011 at 12:23 — No Comments

Household Water Treatment and Storage (HWTS)

Household Water Treatment and Storage (HWTS) Guidelines, 2011. PATH. (Link to full-text) These guidelines provide evidence-based criteria for effective, commercially viable products that meet or exceed user expectations for long-term use. They take into account the unique needs of users in the developing world.

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 19, 2011 at 7:39 — No Comments

WASHCost Update 2011 April 1

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This first "WASHCost Update" of the year, reports on the outcomes of the WASHCost research meeting which took place in February 2011 in Burkina Faso. At this meeting, the latest findings were shared and the final steps in data analysis discussed between the teams…

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 8, 2011 at 13:30 — No Comments

Knowledge Management for Mountain Development

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Last week the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) published its Sustainable Mountain Development Journal. This issue 58 is dedicated to Knowledge Management for Mountain Development. In a number of articles from project managers, scientists, climate experts, development practitioners it highlights initiatives on the application and use of knowledge ad communication, including our own efforts to serve as an open house for knowledge on…
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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 6, 2011 at 7:14 — No Comments

Call for cases, inputs and experiences AfricaSan III:

Providing sanitation services in dense low income settlements in coastal and waterfront areas is a challenge for municipal planners and service providers and requires creative and innovative ideas, approaches and actions in various sectors.



The challenges include appropriate technical solutions as well as approaches and methods to stimulate demand and link household, private and public actors to ensure ongoing service delivery.

The urgency for tailored and…

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Added by Jaap Pels Global on April 4, 2011 at 10:13 — No Comments

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The tricky business of what is considered “evidence” in WASH

Judging by the number of posts on Twitter, evidence for decision making seems to be a hot topic at the moment not only in the WASH sector but more broadly in the development realm. DFID, the British bilateral cooperation agency has published the latest “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – evidence paper”. I agree generally with the broad lines of the conclusions about what we still need to know to do our jobs in the sector better, but it was with utter disbelief that I read what is considered “evidence” in the report and what is discarded as not being “sufficient evidence”.

Seminar on Multiple Use Water Services in the context of Dutch policy and practice

This seminar will bring together the expertise of Dutch organisations on multiple use water services (MUS) in the context of Dutch policy and practice. It will include experiences from arid to humid environments, relating to policy development, capacity building, water infrastructure development, water resources management, sanitation and re-use of waste and wastewater, especially from East Africa.

International Conference on Water, Wastewater

Organised by the Civil Engineering Department of Bangalore University. Topics include: Planning for Sustainable Water Solutions; Water Quality & Health; Water Management & Policy; and Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technologies.

WASH Conference 2014

The theme for this week-long event is "Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Everyone, Everywhere", with sub-themes: Equitable access, universal services; Achieving health outcomes with WASH; and Sustaining services and outcomes. 

WSA signs up with Malaysian company for technical support on sanitation

Water and 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”.

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