sanitation
Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer to this question may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people do not have access to a toilet – about four in ten of the world’s population. Instead, they defecate in the open – in the bush, the forest, by riverbanks and lakes, near train tracks and by the side of the road. The consequences are...
Resort to folk competence in health is a recent and important trend in development policy. In the field of primary health care, this trend has gained force in the recognition of the cultural constraints within which any community health programme must operate.Recent research in medical anthropology has focused on the way in which local people acting in the light of their cultural values and...
Liberia‘s newly approved water and sanitation policy states that ‘water is life‘ and ‘sanitation is dignity‘. At present, however, the dire state of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in Liberia constitutes a public health crisis that is killing Liberians and robbing many more of their dignity: three out of four people have no access to safe water...
The Water and Sanitation Response for Vulnerable Populations in Lower Juba, Southern Somalia' targeted displaced people and those affected by drought, between 1st November 2007 and 31st July 2008. The project targeted 1,100 households in Afmadow District. It sought to meet humanitarian needs and strengthen livelihoods of drought stricken pastoralists and agro-pastoralists, and also to...
The Water and Sanitation Response for Vulnerable Populations in Lower Juba, Southern Somalia' targeted displaced people and those affected by drought, between 1st November 2007 and 31st July 2008. The project targeted 1,100 households in Afmadow District. It sought to meet humanitarian needs and strengthen livelihoods of drought stricken pastoralists and agro-pastoralists, and also to...
In the humanitarian coordination system of 'clusters', the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) cluster is widely acknowledged to be among the best functioning.
This report, based on interviews conducted with more than 50 individuals with experience of the WASH cluster in more than 25 countries, focusses on evidence of improved humanitarian response from the WASH cluster and what...
Rural and Urban water issues have been addressed by Indo-German development cooperation for several decades and along with sustainable development in general it can be considered as one of the oldest topics covered. Indo-German joint activities focus on the sustainable management of water resources with due consideration to social and institutional issues. However, the initial rural and urban...
Formally acknowledging water as a human right, and giving content and effect to this right could be a good way of encouraging the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development Goals. It could serve to increase the pressure to translate such a right into concrete national and international legal obligations...
No one has to be poor in 2008. No woman need die giving birth for want of simple medical care. No child should die of pneumonia because of a lack of medicine. No girl should have to watch her brothers leave to go to school while she stays at home. No family should see floods wash away its food. No woman should have to watch her children risk their lives drinking dirty water, or go to sleep...
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