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High tech or hand crafted – it’s all in Source
High tech, hand-crafted, or theatrical – you will find it all in this issue of Source Bulletin.
WaterAid flows into Source Bulletin
We are very pleased to welcome WaterAid as regular contributor of stories from the field to the Source Bulletin family.
Burkina Faso: Multimedia tools help to change hygiene behaviour in Bokin district
Solar powered computers, digital cameras and projectors are being used in 20 remote villages in Burkina Faso to raise awareness over hygiene and help people adopt good practices. The NGO which has introduced the multi-media hygiene programmes believes that their high tech approach is having a higher impact on hygiene awareness, compared to using of pictures on cards.
Jharkhand, India: When collective voices result in action
The availability of drinking water and toilets just got better for the Pahariyas, an indigenous primitive tribal group living in far flung villages in the predominantly tribal state of Jharkhand, India. This has set in motion a positive engagement process wherein the tribal people are able to demand what is rightfully theirs. The example below from WaterAid India relates to drinking water and sanitation, but the community will not be restricted to these services alone.
India: Moving from water scarcity to security
Communities in Tikamgarh district of Bundelkhand, India have been working to develop drinking water security plans, which they are confident of implementing with financial support from government programmes.
WSSCC News
Public funding for sanitation: The many faces of sanitation subsidies
The discussion on appropriate sanitation financing mechanisms for the poor should go far beyond the use of hardware subsidies, and take into account all aspects of hardware and software, capital and operational expenditure, the type of sanitation system being built, and the ultimate users of the sanitation system.
WASH in conflict zones
Every day WSSCC members work steadfastly towards providing water, sanitation and hygiene for people who lack access. Some of our WASH Coalitions encounter the added challenge of labouring towards this goal in conflict zones, where hundreds of thousands of people can be displaced, forced to abandon their homes and resettle in other areas.
IRC News
Andhra Pradesh: Writeshop gives front-line leaders the power to shape history
Faced by a row of attentive faces, Bhamu Prakash the Sarpanch (President) of Ramchandrapur is reading aloud from a sheet of papers. He is explaining, not without pride, how his village, 130 kilometres from Hyderabad, has succeeded in improving its water supply.
Nepal: Health workers look for dramatic change in men’s hygiene
Health workers in Nepal are touring a play from village to village to convince men that hygiene is an essential part of the drama of family life.
Theatre is an innovative way of getting the hygiene message across to men who are not easy to target.
Andhra Pradesh: shift to adaptive managing water demand needed
There are no quick fixes for the complex water-related challenges facing Andhra Pradesh. What is clear is that policies, institutional procedures and other aspects of water governance are needed that are firmly rooted in the principles of ‘adaptive management’.
Photo story: Promoting sanitation with women and men, girls and boys in Banjarmasin, Indonesia
Women and men in Banjarmasin, Indonesia, are quite literally putting planners in the picture over their sanitation priorities and what they think about good and bad practice. They are using illustrations to debate and decide on what issues are the most important.
Forthcoming: Climbing the Water Ladder book
In low- and middle-income countries, people need water for drinking, personal hygiene and other domestic use. But they also use it for livestock, horticulture, irrigation, fisheries, brick making, and other small-scale enterprises. Climbing the ladder to achieve multiple uses requires a small fraction of total water resources, yet has the potential to help people climb out of poverty.
Evaluating & improving the WASH sector : strengthening WASH governance, learning about complexity, assessing change
This Thematic overview paper discusses evaluations, focusing on the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. It covers the causal chain and evidence-based evaluations, ‘black boxes’ and realistic evaluations and complex adaptive systems, complexity evaluations and change assessment.
This Thematic overview paper discusses evaluations, focusing on the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector. It covers the causal chain and evidence-based evaluations, ‘black boxes’ and realistic evaluations and complex adaptive systems, complexity evaluations and change assessment.
