Former IRC Programme Officer
In 2009, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation initiated a learning event consisting of the facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) on water-related issues in 12 countries throughout Africa. Most of these MSPs consisted of forums on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH forums) in which... Read more...
Men who are well informed on the benefits of hygiene improvement for their family are more likely to support their wives and children to change their... Read more...
A 2010 evaluation by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) of its urban services projects in Indonesia revealed that the success rate of projects under the multi-subsector approach is 44% compared with 68% for other projects. Read more...
Projects that meet output-based aid (OBA) criteria have proliferated both within the World Bank Group and beyond, and perform better than non-OBA projects. So why are OBA projects still less than 10% of the Bank portfolio? Alan Johnson, a Senior Private Sector Advisor in the World Bank's Investment... Read more...
A new World Bank study identified lessons for improving cookstoves in Bangladesh through an evaluation of existing programs, the international experience on improved stoves, and the lessons from successes in the sanitation sector. Read more...
Hiring a female meter reader in a USAID-funded project in Afghanistan, resulted in 75 per cent increase in collected revenue in the first month. In the local cultural context, only a woman can access household meters during times when only other women are at home. Read more...
Broad efforts at regulatory reform and increasing energy and water access may, but will not necessarily, help the poor, says an Asian Development Bank policy brief published in April 2010. The poor often need specifically targeted interventions, measures, and approaches to ensure that they benefit... Read more...
The Water for Recovery and Peace Program (WRAPP) began in late 2004, after Pact Sudan received USAID funding for programming in Greater Upper Nile and Greater Bahr el Ghazel Regions. The WRAPP Equatoria program (April 2007 - June 2009) was an extension of the WRAPP program into 7 counties in... Read more...
A study by the African Development Bank (AfDB) concludes that improved sector coordination and capacity building at the local level are some of the key elements to increase efficiency in the water and sanitation sector. Read more...
WaterAid has published a report about access to water and sanitation for people living with HIV and Aids in Tanzania. Read more...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provided US$ 50 million for the Rural Infrastructure Support Project which ran from June 2006 to March 2009. The project was implemented in less-developed districts in the provinces of East Java, East Nusa Tenggara, South Sulawesi, and South East Sulawesi. Read more...
