Sanitation Updates

Organised by: Regional Capacity Building Partners (RECABIP), Nairobi, Kenya

Many development institutions have done very little to understand the contextual impacts of HIV and AIDS on Water, Hygiene and Environmental Sanitation programmes and have not integrated programmatic actions to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS, and mitigate its impact in their programmes. Similarly, AIDS service organizations have not analyzed the role of safe water, sanitation and Hygiene in fostering quality care, prevention, treatment, impact mitigation services at individual, household and community level. The Course focuses on strengthening skills, knowledge and understanding practical mainstreaming tools and processes.

Course fees: US $1,000 (excluding international travel, accommodation and food).

RECABIP is a network of professional organisations and individuals engaged in capacity building workshops, seminars, conferences and consultancy services in the fields of HIV and AIDS, Climate Change, Governance and Leadership issues. [ Note: the website provides no list of names with CVs of individual members of RECABIP, no names of clients, no annual report etc.]

Full information and application details are available on the RECABIP web site

For more info on HIV/AIDS and WASH see the IRC web site

Article Date: 08 Apr 2008 - 4:00 PDT

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) celebrated the success of their five-year partnership to enhance environment safety and hygiene conditions in thousands of schools across Jharkhand and Karnataka. The close-of-project dissemination meeting was held today at the UNDP Conference Hall in Delhi. (…)

Over the period from September 2003 - February 2008, the School Water and Sanitation Towards Hygiene and Health - Putting Lessons Learned to use (SWASTHH-PLUS) programme, worked in partnership with the Government of India and state governments to improve school facilities, providing sanitary school conditions and hygiene lessons for almost a million children in more than 5500 public schools.

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One of the activities that UNICEF India carried out in the SWASTHH-PLUS programme, was the introduction of a  bio-intensive gardening in schools in Karnataka.

“Ecological Sanitation: Concept to Practice” is the first course offered by ENPHO (Environment and Public Health Organization) in the SHIT series. This three day course runs from 26-28 March 2008 in Kathmandu, Nepal (application deadline 22 March). Four other courses are planned: Constructed wetlands; Solid waste management; Biogas for sanitation; and Total sanitation campaigns. Costs are Rs. 3,000 per person, students Rs 2,000, international participants US$ 100.

For more information contact:

ENPHO Resource Centre
Tel: 977-1-4468641, 4493188
Fax: 977-1-4491376
Email: rc[at]enpho.org

A national organisation that supports water and sanitation projects in developing countries is celebrating a move to Loughborough University today (12 March).Partners for Water and Sanitation (PAWS) was established in 2002 in response to the United Nations Millennium Development Goal targets to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation by 2015.

It is a network of UK organisations that work, on a voluntary basis, to help improve access to safe water and sanitation for people living in Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa. PAWS members come from Government, the private sector and civil society, and include water companies, consultancies, development non-governmental organisations (NGOs), Government departments and agencies, law firms and trade unions, as well independent consultants. It is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID).

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ASKNet was officially launched on 19 February 2008 at AfricaSan 2008 in Durban, South Africa.

ASKNet’s mission is to: “enhance the ability of academics and professionals across the disciplines to contribute to the mainstreaming and up-scaling of sustainable sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the benefit of livelihoods, health, and the environment”.

The members of ASKNet’s temporary board are:

• Dr Nicola Rodda, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Dr Kouassi Dongo, University of Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
• Mr Charles Niwagaba, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

UNESCO-IHE and ASKNet have submitted a proposal to the Netherlands Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) for the development of an internet-based Master Program on Sustainable Sanitation.

ASKNet is planning a Networking Conference n Maputo, Mozambique in December 2008 to mark the end of the 2008 International Year of Sanitation.

An online quiz from the Water Sanitation Program (WSP) to test your knowledge of sanitation issues.

Link to the quiz

Programme Organiser: The EcoSanRes Programme at Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)

The programme has three parts: a 3-week course in Sweden, a period between courses for project work back home, and a 2-week course in the region. The language requirement is English. Costs are covered by Sida. The deadline for applications from Africa and Latin America is 1 April 2008. The deadline for applications from Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia is 1 May 2008.

ITP 99a “Ecological Alternatives in Sanitation” - for Africa and Latin America:

• For all Africa and Latin America participants: a 3-week course in Sweden from 11-29 August 2008
• For Africa participants: a 2-week course in South Africa in February 2009
• For Latin America participants: a 2-week course in Mexico in March 2009

ITP 99b “Ecological Alternatives in Sanitation” - for Asia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia:

• For all Asia and Eastern Europe and Central Asia participants: a 3-week course in Sweden from 15 September - 3 October 2008
• For Asia participants: a 2-week course in Asia in April 2009
• For Eastern Europe and Central Asia participants: a 2-week course in the Ukraine in May 2009

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