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Asian Sanitation Data Book 2008 – Achieving Sanitation for all
The overall city sanitation picture in Asia is not bright. Sanitation has not been given sufficient priority and certainly lags behind provision of drinking water. This is one of the findings of a survey of 27 cities published by the Asian Development Bank in the “Asian Sanitation Data Book 2008“.
The report states that Calbayog City, Philippines, and Lekhnath Municipality,
Nepal have no cases of hepatitis, trachoma, or malaria. However, Lekhnath has a
high incidence of diarrhea at 194.11 cases per 10,000 population. To read more,click here.
Strengthening Information Management in the Benin Water Sector
Benin’s Water Ministry with support from WSP is implementing since June 2009 a
new information and knowledge tool to support rural drinking water supply (RWS)
stakeholders, including decentralized local governments, in strengthening
bottom-up planning, budgeting, and performance. To
read more, click here.
What
do Water and Sanitation Have to do With Hiv and Aids?
To read more,click here.
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Participation in
Training at CSE
Six staff members of WASH-RCNN member organisations participated in a training
workshop on “Managing Information in a Digital Age” from 12-15 January, 2010 at
Center for Science and Environment (CSE), India.
Enhancing Linkages for Sustainable Sanitation
A workshop on Sustainable Sanitation in Nepal: The Way Ahead organized by Nepal Node for Sustainable Sanitation, ENPHO and Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) on 23rd October 2009 stressed on the need to enhance linkages with other sectors like health, agriculture and education to effectively promote sustainable sanitation in Nepal. To read more,click here.
Resource Centre Networks at World Water Week
Resource Centre Networks (RCNs) from five countries (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Honduras, Nepal and Uganda) partnered with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre to place an exhibition booth at Stockholm World Water Week 2009. Rabin Bastola from RCN Nepal attended and ‘manned’ the booth in association with IRC colleagues from 16-21 August 2009.
Participation in ‘Training for Facilitation of National Learning Processes in the Water and Sanitation Sector’
Rabin Bastola, National Coordinator of WASH-Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) participated in ‘Training for Facilitation of National Learning Processes in the Water and Sanitation Sector’ held in The Hague, The Netherlands from 29 June – 10 July.
ENPHO Hosts Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN)
A meeting of Resource Centre Network Nepal (RCNN) Board held on 21 April formally decided to have ENPHO as the host organization of RCNN. To read more, click here.
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Regional Conference on Appropriate Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene to the Informal Settlements and Marginalized Communities
Kathmandu, Nepal, 19-21 May, 2010
The abstract submission deadline for the conference is February 28, 2010.
For details, click here.
International Symposium on Rural Water Services: Providing Sustainable Water
Services at Scale
Kampala, Uganda, 13-15
April 2010
Organised by: Thematic Group on Scaling up Rural Water Services and
Ministry of Water and Environment (Uganda), within the framework of the Triple-S
(Sustainable Services at Scale) initiative being managed by the IRC
International Water and Sanitation Centre.
For details, click here.
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We are pleased
to present the first issue of ‘PANEE ra SARSAFAI’, the Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Sector E-Bulletin of Nepal. This
E-bulletin aims to maintain effective communication within WASH
sector professionals and support organizations. We hope this
platform can play a catalytic role to communicate WASH knowledge
and experiences within development professionals of Nepal.
This
E-Bulletin will be published every month in an electronic form
by WASH-RCNN Secretariat.
We hereby request you to contribute by providing us original
articles, lessons learnt in WASH related development
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Sound
Water Management System Results Easy Access to Safe Water
The community people at grassroots are most vulnerable to the
adverse impacts of climate change. Among them, women have the key role to ensure
safe water for themselves and for their family. They are also responsible for
good hygiene practice of their family. Thus, mainstreaming women's effort in the
management of water resources is necessary. Sound water management system
results easy access to safe water for women in the changing climate. This
ultimately ensures health security of the family.
Article by:Shah Mohammad Ashraful Amin, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) and SarekaJahan, United Nations Centre for regional Development (UNCRD) through Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC)
To read more, click here.
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Discussions on
SWA: GF4A Initiated in Nepal
Nepal Preparatory Meeting for First High Level meeting
of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA): Global Framework
for Action (GF4A) and continuation of the stakeholder
dialogue to move to a programmatic approach was held on
5th February 2010 in Lalitpur. SWA: GF4A is a global
network comprising of national governments, donors,
multi lateral agencies and civil society organizations
that will work together to achieve its aim of universal
access to sanitation and water supply through better
sector coordination, coherence and mutual
accountability. To read more, click here.
Lobbying for Recognition of Water and Sanitation as a Basic Right
A group of WASH stakeholders met with Ms. Binda Pandey, Chairperson of the Committee on Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles (a committee under the constituent assembly committees) to discuss the inclusion of improved sanitation and safe water as basic fundamental right in the constitution. To read more,click here.
Moving towards Sector Wide Approach (SWAp)
Mr. Suman
K. Sharma, Joint Secretary at Ministry of Physical
Planning and Works (MPPW) emphasized on the need to move towards SWAp for coordinated planning, harmonization, coordination and monitoring in the WATSAN
sector. To read more, click here.
Public Private Partnership in Promoting Safe Water & Sanitation
ENPHO, together with USAID, organized a conference on 9 November to explore possibilities for promoting safe water and sanitation through the regular activities of private sector companies. To read more, click here.
Communities Changed Behaviour through WATSAN Programme
Nepal Red Cross Society has been implementing
drinking water and sanitation programme in Kotgaun
Village Development Committee of Rolpa district with the
support of the Austrian Red Cross since January 2009 for
three years. The programme has now left some positive
changes during one year of its implementation. About
5,500 people have benefitted through the programme
services.
There is improvement in personal hygiene, sanitary
behaviour of the community, household sanitation and
environmental cleanliness. To read more,click
here.
Participatory Vulnerability Assessment (PVA)
Friends Service Council Nepal had organized four day PVA training on 22-25 June 2009 at Butwal. Total 26 participants from PCWaSH Committees, sub committees, staff and board members had participated in the training. To read more, click here.
NOD Area Declared
in Banke
Integrated Development Society (IDS) Nepal in
partnership with Plan Nepal has recently declared Ward
No. 5 of Bageshowri VDC of Banke District of Nepal as No
Open Defecation (NOD) area. Only 28%
(112 HHs) of total households in this ward were using
toilets before this project intervention. To
read more,click here.
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Nepal: Children from 200 Schools Spread Messages on Point-of-use Water Treatment and Hand Washing
Updated - 15 December 2009
Addressing safe water options at school in Nepal is a bigger challenge than at household level. No safe water products on the market can handle the high volume of water demand in an average school with 300 students, particularly in light of the operation and maintenance challenges. To read more, click here.
For additional information: http://www.hip.watsan.net/page/251
Arinita Shrestha, former USAID HIP country advisor in Nepal
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US Students Raise more than USD 10,000 for Nepal Water Project
Students at Bentley University in Boston, have raised funds amounting to more than USD 10,000 for UN-HABITAT’s Water for Asian Cities Programme. The money is being used for a rainwater conservation project in Nepal. To read more,click here
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WASH-RCNN is an informal network of NGOs and INGOs involved in
water and sanitation sector, which intends to facilitate the sharing of
information and promote the use thereof to improve the performance of the sector
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