On Earth Day, it is important to take action to protect our environment. It is equally important to realize that we share the same environment as those in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and around the world. This is especially true…
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Driving the WASH Monitoring Conversation to a Whole New Level
On April 9-11, 400 people gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the IRC Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium to share information, frameworks, methodology and think big about sector wide changes. The Symposium was divided into six topics that addressed…
Happy World Water Day! (Now What?)
We have a lot to celebrate this World Water Day 2013, especially considering where we were just a few quick years ago on the global safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) crisis. But as we celebrate this annual event,…
Tagged with: #worldwaterday, advocacy, Africa, and hygiene, Asia, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Economics of Sanitation Initiatives, End Water Poverty, Latin America, sanitation, Sanitation and Water for All, Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act, United Nations, USAID, wash, WASHfunders.org, water, water strategy
Posted in Advocacy, Handwashing, Menstrual Hygiene, Sanitation, Sustainability, WASH in Schools, Women
Posted in Advocacy, Handwashing, Menstrual Hygiene, Sanitation, Sustainability, WASH in Schools, Women
Introducing WASH and Women’s Health: a blog series coordinated by WASH Advocates and the Maternal Health Task Force
Read the Series Getting Water to Women: AMREF’s Mkuranga District WASH Project, Tanzania What access to clean water means for women and girls in Bogu, Ghana Education, WASH and girls’ opportunities in Tanzania A fresh focus on WASH, maternal and…
Tagged with: Bill and Melinda Gates Foudation, Cambodia, Ghana, girls, Global Maternal Health Conference, GMHC2013, India, International Year of Water Cooperation, Maternal Health Task Force, menstrual hygiene management, Tanzania, Uganda, women
Posted in Handwashing, Menstrual Hygiene, NTDs, Sanitation, Sustainability, WASH in Schools, Women
Posted in Handwashing, Menstrual Hygiene, NTDs, Sanitation, Sustainability, WASH in Schools, Women
License to Play: Sustaining the Gains of WASH in Schools
by Jacques-Edouard Tiberghien and Aliki Zeri for BPD Water and Sanitation This post originally appeared in The BPD Blog. Reprinted with permission. Some 30 participants attended the “License to Play” session held by BPD on the final day of…
Tagged with: accountability, informal partnerships, sustainability, UNC Water Health and Policy Conference 2012, WinS
Posted in Sustainability, WASH in Schools
Posted in Sustainability, WASH in Schools
Learning from Failure
by Aliki Zeri for BPD Water and Sanitation This post originally appeared in The BPD Blog. Reprinted with permission. What do we mean when we talk about ‘failure’? How can NGOs in the development sector and in particular in the…
Tagged with: 11th SanCop, EWB Canada, failure, lessons, safe space, Sanitation Community of Practice (SanCoP)
Posted in Sanitation, Sustainability
Posted in Sanitation, Sustainability
The Coca-Cola Company Endorses WASH Sustainability Charter
100th Endorsement Cements Charter as Key Framework for Lasting Services in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Sector Washington, D.C, January 16, 2013 – The Coca-Cola Company, one of the world’s largest private sector supporters of water, sanitation, and hygiene…
The Power of Organizing: WASH Access in Latin America
From September 18-20, I had the pleasure of attending the III Latin American Community Water Management Conference in Cuenca, Ecuador. Approximately 500 delegates from fourteen Latin American and Caribbean countries gathered to discuss the successes and challenges of water and…
Tagged with: Bernardo Toro, Cuenca, Ecuador, education, III Latin American Community Water Management Conference, organizing, water and sanitation, water committees
Posted in Advocacy, Sustainability
Posted in Advocacy, Sustainability
The Silent Barrier: Women, Water and Sanitation
Reposted with permission from Do Good Lab. Access to sanitation and clean water is still a far-off dream for millions of women around the world. It’s a glaring absence because women’s lives are intricately connected to water. In most of…
Tagged with: girls, India, sanitation, schools, taboos, toilets, women
Posted in Sustainability, Women
Posted in Sustainability, Women
WASH Sustainability: Looking Through the GLAAS
WASH Sustainability: Looking Through the GLAAS will be an hour-long webinar bringing together leading WASH experts and GLAAS report contributors to discuss the practical implications of the recent report. The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS)…