The city of Kochi (also known as 'Cochin') is the touristic and economic capital of the state of Kerala located in the south-west region of India. The municipal boundary of the Corporation Cochin (CoC) has a total population of over 600,000. In Kochi it was estimated that 20% of excreta is managed safely while 80% of the excreta ends up directly in the environment without […]
Only little information exists about the use of squat toilets in different regions of the world. This survey uses the experience of professionals and practitioners involved in different water and sanitation programs to collect more information about the use and prevalence of squatting toilets, with an emphasis on Muslim and Buddhist countries. The purpose of the survey was to get semi-quantitative data about the use of […]
This library entry contains documents for a grant that Maria Laura Alzua is leading and which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Goal: to improve the evidence of the effectiveness of Community Led Total Sanitation Programs on health and behavioral outcomes Purpose (copied from Trial description: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01900912): Behavioral change is a key ingredient for successful adoption of better sanitation practices in rural Africa. Sanitation programs […]
This report covers the main findings of the impact evaluation conducted of a communityled total sanitation (CLTS) campaign implemented by the government of Mali (Direction Nationale de l’Assainissement) with the support of UNICEF. We conducted a clusterrandomized controlled trial among 121 villages randomly selected from the district of Koulikoro in order to evaluate health and non-health program impacts. Baseline data was collected during April-June 2011, […]
This is a compilation of factsheets regarding sanitation activities of GIZ and partners in eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The country factsheets summarise on two pages each the sanitation challenges, GIZ's approach, program activities and outcomes.
Terra Preta composting is an age old technology from Amazon forests which leads to a special type of soil with high nutrient storage chapacity.
La présente stratégie régionale mise à jour en 2015 a été lancée en 2012 face à la crise nutritionnelle et alimentaire au Sahel, révisée lors du processus de consultation en 2014, elle reste une orientation intersectorielle adaptable aux spécificités nationales et locales de chaque pays.
English "WASH-in-Nut" Programme: Integration of a minimun WAS package in undernutrition treatment programmes Francais Programme « WASH-IN-NUT » intégration d'un paquet minimum EAH dans les programmes de traitement de la sous-nutrition
English Impact of Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Interventions on the Nutritional and Health Status of Children under 5 years old and mothers French Impact des interventions du secteur Eau Assainissement et Hygiène (EAH) sur la santé et le statut nutritionnel des enfants de moins de 5 ans et des mères
This publication is the background article to one of the case stories in the SuSanA case story collection “Making WASH in Schools more Sustainable” (Vol II.). It has been selected as one of the focus case stories on monitoring under the umbrella of the SuSanA Working Group 7 on school sanitation. The project "School Sanitation in Underserved Urban Areas in India" has shown that in the […]
Public relations as a communication practice contributes to a full functioning society by bringing organizations, groups and individuals together to discuss issues. Public relations also helps to build advocacy coalitions. Rhetoric enables the creation and sustainment of coalitions and helps coalition members achieve a shared understanding of the events and issues they seek to address. Social capital emerges from the communicative relationships within a coalition’s […]
The publication illustrates step by step how to improving management of urban sanitaion. 1. Access exisiting sanitation services 2. Access sanitation socio-economic context 3. Conduct an institutional stakeholder mapping 4. Disseminate sanitation assessment information 5. Build consensus with key stakeholders for action 6. Define and clarify institutional roles and responsibilities 7. Develop and implement a near term fecal fludge management plan 8. Develop a mid to long term investment plan 9. Mobilize investment for […]