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Indicators improve wetlands management and governance
12 June 2013 | indicators, sustainable dev, waterGood water and wetland management requires information on the stock of natural capital, on the flow of ecosystem services it provides and on how these are changing. Indicators play an important...
Blogpost l Measuring is Managing - Water Management
01 March 2013 | basic service delivery, blogpost, mdgs, sanitation, water, water governanceWater management lies behind most of the great development challenges of the 21st Century. It's obvious but we too often forget that we won't be able to achieve food security, energy security,...
Belize l Database to address bottlenecks in rural water supplies
03 December 2012 | belize, benchmarking, citizen reporting, data base, indicators, mdg7, nat initiative, sanitation, waterThe Millennium Development Goal Target 7C (MDG 7C) aims to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. This goal falls...
Call for proposals: Uganda: Assessing Governance and Integrity in the Water Supply and Sanitation Subsector (Deadline 14.Dec.2012)
19 November 2012 | call for proposals, governance, sanitation, uganda, waterIn support of the ongoing sector efforts to enhance good governance in Uganda’s water supply and sanitation (WSS) subsector, the Good Governance Subsector Working Group (GGSSWG) plans to commission...
India l Local Initiative l A voice against corruption in water and sanitation – community video in India
16 November 2012 | corruption, india, local initiative, sanitation, video, waterIn the district of Khunti, Jharkhand, toilets were planned to be constructed under the government’s Total Sanitation Scheme. Whilst the statistics and official reports show that the work was done and...
Kenya l Citizen Feedback Drives Performance Improvements in Kenya’s Water and Sanitation Services
09 November 2012 | africa, citizen report cards, kenya, sanitation, scorecard, social accountability, waterWith support from the World Bank and the Water and Sanitation Program, the government of Kenya is working to address water shortages. The Kenya Water and Sanitation Services Improvement Project (...
Workshop: Assessing the Integrity in Water Sector of the Republic of Tajikistan 2012
12 June 2012 | corruption, dushanbe2012, tajikistan, waterIn partnership with the UNDP, the Ministry of Land Reclamation and Water Resources (LRWR), Agency for State Financial Control and Combating Corruption and civil society organisations, organised the...
Tajikistan: Integrating Integrity and Evidence for a Better Water Policy
30 April 2012 | asia pacific, central asia, cis, tajikistan, undp-supported, waterTajikistan is one of the most water-wealthy states in the world, yet only 59% of its population has access to safe drinking water (15% in rural areas). While infrastructural and institutional...
Blogpost: lessons on WASH sustainability from Central Asia
28 March 2012 | asia pacific, donors, indicators, kyrgyzstan, methodology, monitoring, uzbekistan, wash, waterOne of the biggest barriers to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) access in many areas isn’t the lack of infrastructure, but the lack of investment in and planning for maintenance and repair. ...
IRC webinar – discussing the use of FLOW for monitoring WASH service delivery in Ghana « Gadgets for mobile
07 February 2012 | citizen monitoring, service delivery, technology, water, web resource, webinarOn Wednesday 1 February 2012, Marieke Adank аnd Nicolas Dickinson frοm IRC International Water аnd Sanitation Centre, shared thеіr experiences wіth thе monitoring οf water services іn three districts...