Rokaya, K. B. (2022) INCREASED ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER IN THE VILLAGE OF CHINA, NEPAL
The right to water and sanitation entitles everyone to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use. In 2010, the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognized clean drinking water and safe sanitation to be human rights, essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights. Additionally, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.1 […]
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Bhatt, R. B. (2022) IMPROVING THE FUNCTIONALITY OF COMMUNITY WATER SUPPLIES THROUGH WATER SAFETY PLANNING (WSP) IN NEPAL
Water is one of the most important natural resources of the nation. Nepal has an abundance of water resources, including snowpacks, rivers, springs, lakes, and groundwater. Rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, springs, and groundwater are the major sources of drinking water. Tap or piped water, tube wells or hand pumps, covered or uncovered wells, spout water, rainwater collection, and river or stream water are available options […]
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Vharkat, B. (2022) THE MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT AND UNICEF PARTNER TOGETHER TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF WASH STAKEHOLDERS DURING COVID-19
Access to safe water and sanitation is essential for unlocking economic development and improving the health and education of all. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6 aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) also contributes to numerous other goals, including those relating to nutrition, health, education, poverty, economic growth, urban services, […]
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Satapathy, B. K. (2022) NILOGON TECHNOLOGY: A HOME-BASED COMMUNITY LEVEL SOLUTION FOR FLUORIDE MITIGATION IN KANKER DISTRICT OF CHHATTISGARH, INDIA
Chhattisgarh is a state in central India. Water contamination has always been a matter of grave concern in numerous areas of Chhattisgarh. Groundwater here faces contamination with fluoride, iron, turbidity, arsenic, nitrate, etc. Monitoring groundwater quality is essential through representative sampling in different hydrological units. The chemical water quality is monitored by Central Ground Water Board (CGWB)once a year in India. 19 districts of 28 […]
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Selvaraj, J. (2022) A MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT WORKING COMMITTEE FORMED IN THE ANDHRA PRADESH STATE IN INDIA IS CREATING A MODEL THAT NEEDS TO BE REPLICATED
Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) relates to how girls and women manage their monthly menstruation and require access to information about menstruation, clean and safe menstrual absorbents, amenities, and facilities such as toilets and water, and waste management to maintain hygiene. MHM in general is poor in India due to a low level of knowledge and many misconceptions about it. In recent years, MHM is gaining […]
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Gyaltshen, S. (2022) ACCELERATION TOWARDS OPEN DEFECTION FREE (ODF) BHUTAN AND 100 % ACCESS TO POUR FLUSH TOILETS
The Royal Government of Bhutan and in particular, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has been concerned with the high prevalence of sanitation and hygiene-related diseases. This was largely due to low coverage of hygienic pour-flush toilets; high prevalence of inferior quality pit toilets (without slab/cover) which were unsanitary and unhygienic; and households without toilets. The Bhutan Multiple Indicator Survey (BMIS) in 2010 reported that only […]
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Deepak K. C. (2022) INTER-COMMUNITY BRIDGING: AN INDICATOR OF SOCIAL COHESION IN ROHINGYA REFUGEE CAMP, COX’S BAZAR
In August 2017, thousands of Rohingya flee their homes in Myanmar and arrived at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. As of April 2022, there were 925,380 refugees accommodated in 34 camps around the towns of Ukhiya and Teknaf. Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar live with inadequate water and sanitation facilities resulting in adverse health impacts. Besides this, such huge influxes of refugees accelerated the […]
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Ali, M. (2022) BOLSTERING SOCIAL COHESION USING COMMUNITY-MANAGED WATER SUPPLY NETWORKS IN UKHIA, COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
Bangladesh is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 166 million people in an area of 147,600 square kilometres making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world. About a million Rohingyas have fled due to the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh. The refugees are in temporary settlements in hilly areas of Cox’s Bazar with […]
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Yesmin, K. (2022) ROHINGYA COMMUNITIES BENEFIT FROM PIPE WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS IN THE CAMPS OF COX’S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
Globally, at least two billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces1. As result of microbial contamination with faeces, it poses the greatest risk to drinking-water safety. In 2010, the UN General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. Everyone has the right to sufficient, continuous, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use. Sustainable Development […]
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Mamun, Z. (2022) PARADIGM SHIFT: THE HUMANITARIAN DEVELOPMENT NEXUS IN COX’S BAZAR DISTRICT, BANGLADESH
According to Joint Monitoring Programme, 58.5% have safely managed services for drinking water in 2020. One in five households has to spend more than 30 minutes fetching water from an outside source. The statistics also suggest a serious gap in sanitation facilities; about one-third of the households (31%) use unimproved toilet facilities; 22% of households use pit latrines without slabs, and 3% use a hanging […]
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Begum, S. (2022) ADOLESCENT GIRLS LEAD AS MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT FACILITATORS IN THE ROHINGYA COMMUNITY, COX`S BAZAR, BANGLADESH
Adolescence is a vital period for human development as life enters a new phase with the onset of menstruation for girls. This new change sometimes leads many adolescents to experience stigma, bullying and social exclusion, also introducing them to new vulnerabilities. In many parts of Bangladesh, menstruation is a taboo and has myths attached to it which can lead to poor personal hygiene and consequent […]
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Khalid Azami, M. (2022) PROVIDING SOLAR POWERED WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS TO PROMOTE SAFE DRINKING WATER AND HYGIENE IN MAIDAN WARDAK PROVINCE OF AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan is affected by manmade and natural disasters, which have caused a significant displacement of people. People often move from their place of origin to cities and are settled in areas where access to safe drinking water is limited. In 2020, only 47.5 per cent of the population had access to basic drinking water services and 38.1 per cent had basic hygiene services1. As a […]
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GIZ WatSSUP (2022) IMPROVING WATER AND SANITATION SERVICE DELIVERY // DISTRICT LEVEL
The GIZ Programme Water Supply and Sanitation for Refugee Settlements and Host Communities in Northern Uganda (WatSSUP) operates on the nexus of humanitarian and development work and focuses on both refugee and host communities. The programme is implemented under the special initiative on forced displacement of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). This is in line with Germany’s commitment to international […]
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GIZ WatSSUP (2022) ALTERNATIVE LATRINE AND HANDWASHING TECHNOLOGIES // DEMONSTRATION PLOTS
The GIZ Programme WatSSUP operates on the nexus of humanitarian and development work and focuses on both refugee and host communities. The programme is implemented under the special initiative on forced displacement of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ in line with Germany’s commitment to international burden and responsibility sharing under the UN Global Compact on Refugees. […]
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GIZ WatSSUP (2022) GENDER ANALYSIS // FOR THE GIZ PROGRAMME WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION FOR REFUGEE SETTLEMENTS AND HOST COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN UGANDA // WatSSUP
The observations and recommendations presented in this gender analysis are meant to provide information to the programme regarding the relevance of gender aspects in Uganda, and particularly for the continued implementation process of the Programme: Water Supply and Sanitation for Refugee Settlements and Host Communities in Northern Uganda (WatSSUP).
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GIZ WatSSUP (2022) WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE // SENSITIZATION AND AWARENESS EVENTS
The GIZ Programme WatSSUP operates on the nexus of humanitarian and development work and focuses on both refugee and host communities. The programme is implemented under the special initiative on forced displacement of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by GIZ in line with Germany’s commitment to international burden and responsibility sharing under the UN Global Compact on Refugees.
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GIZ WatSSUP (2022) CASH FOR WORK // TREE PLANTING FOR WATER SOURCE PROTECTION
The WatSSUP Cash for Work (CfW) tree planting activity takes place between April and November 2022. It aims at improving the water source protection of water supply system catchment areas as well as delivering positive impact on household incomes. The activity covers a total of 18 acres in the West Nile Region in Northern Uganda. 9 acres of trees are planted in Yumbe district (Bidibidi […]
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Septien, S., Mupinga, R.T., Chatema, T.M., Perumal, S.R., Mary, E. (2021) Addendum of Data related to Drying of Faecal Sludge from On-Site Sanitation Facilities and Fresh Faeces
The present document consists of an addendum of data to the Handbook of Methods for Faecal Sludge Analysis. It is part of a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates (BMGF) through the OPP1164143, untitled “Characterization of faecal material during drying”. This project was granted for funding after the 5-years Transformative Technologies convening at the BMGF headquarters in 2016, where drying was recognized as […]
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University of Leeds (2022) SFD Lite Report – Gia Nghia, Vietnam
Gia Nghia is a small but quickly growing and urbanising town. 87% of households have water supply provided on premises with projects underway to bring this to over 90%, and 100% of the population has access to a sanitation system (no open defecation is reported). Waste stabilisation ponds were constructed to treat wastewater, but these are not operational due to a lack of connections to […]
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Libby, J. A., Wells, E. C., & Mihelcic, J. R. (2020) Moving up the Sanitation Ladder while Considering Function: An Assessment of Indigenous Communities, Pit Latrine Users, and Their Perceptions of Resource Recovery Sanitation Technology in Panama
As households move up the sanitation ladder, health risks presumably decline but the corresponding technologies may require increasing operation and maintenance costs. One critique of the ladder is that it prioritizes technology and could be improved if it included a functional approach to monitoring, such as including aspects of environmental sustainability that consider resource recovery. Using analyses of data obtained from semi-structured interviews, surveys, and […]
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