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India Dry latrines exist in four states (11 Mar 10) New Delhi, March 8 : Even as the cabinet put March-end as deadline for the rehabilitation of manual scavengers in India, a minister said Monday that four states continue to have dry latrines.
“Dry latrines exist in four states, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand,” Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Mukul Wasnik informed [...]
UNICEF Young people help to improve sanitation in Haiti (09 Mar 10) Feb. 2010 UNICEF Providing Water and Sanitation in Haiti (09 Mar 10) WSP Designing a handwashing station in Vietnam (09 Mar 10) Insights from Designing a Handwashing Station for Rural Vietnamese Households: Learning Note. Water and Sanitation Program. February, 2010. (pdf, 5.3MB)
The Water and Sanitation Program’s (WSP) Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project (HWWS) is testing an array of interventions to promote handwashing with soap among mothers and children in rural Vietnam. These interventions include mass media and interpersonal communication [...]
Uganda Sanitary pad project changes refugees lives (09 Mar 10) KYAKA II, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) – A project using papyrus and waste paper to make sanitary pads has changed the life of Evelyne Banyamisa, who fled rebel violence in Bunia, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2003 when she was only 13. After leaving the DRC, Bamanyisa ended up in south-western Uganda where [...]
Chile Tweet tracking locates water/sanitation equipment (04 Mar 10) Tweet Tracking Site Helps Chile Relief Agencies Save Lives
MAULE, Chile, March 3 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — A woman uses her Twitter account to plead for help in locating her missing daughter – and finds her. An aid group puts out an urgent call for water sanitation equipment. A church group with food to offer asks for [...]
Central America: Seminar on Sanitation and Governance papers (04 Mar 10) From 1-3 February, 2010, the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre organised together with RRAS-CA Red Regional de Agua y Saneamiento de Centro-America) and RAS-ES ( Red de Agua y Saneamiento de El Salvador ) a seminar to share experiences on governance of sanitation services focusing on the Central American region. The workshop took place [...]
2nd Eastern Africa Regional Sanitation Conference starts in Kampala (03 Mar 10) The second Eastern Africa Regional Sanitation Conference and Learning Forum opened in Kampala, Uganda, 2 March 2010, with calls for a more cohesive effort towards achieving regional and global sanitation targets.
In a key-note speech at the opening of the three-three day conference, Uganda’s Minister of Water and Environment, Hon. Maria Mutagamba, said a large proportion [...]
Call for proposals: rural household sanitation Burkina Faso (02 Mar 10) EuropeAid has launched a Euro 10 million call for proposals (in French only) for rural household sanitation projects in Burkina Faso covering the following types of activity
rural household latrine construction
animation / hygiene awareness
training staff of regional departments and local communities in household sanitation
support to municipalities in developing their Municipal Development Plan (DCP) for water and [...]
In the market for proper sanitation WHO Bulletin March 2010 (01 Mar 10) In the market for proper sanitation – WHO Bulletin March 2010
Poor sanitation helps spread disease, yet efforts to provide subsidized toilets have been resisted for cultural reasons in many developing countries. To improve the rate of uptake, some people are now advocating a market-based approach. Kathryn Senior reports.
The main reason so many people are without [...]
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