Latest resources
Sanitation
Tales of shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa
The latest issue of Participatory Learning and Action journal draws on a large and growing body of experience of piloting clts in Africa, and includes case studies from East, Southern and West Africa
Financing
World Sanitation Financing Facility website and social media channels
The World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSSF) has launched a web site and social media channels on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin to attract more technical and financial consortium partners.
General
Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: Forgotten Foundations of Health
As the first article in a four-part PLoS Medicine series on water and sanitation, Jamie Bartram and Sandy Cairncross argue that the massive burden of ill health associated with poor hygiene, sanitation, and water supply demands more attention from health professionals and policymakers. See also:
Paper 2: Water Supply and Health
Paper 3: Sanitation and Health
Paper 4: Hygiene, Sanitation, and Water: What Needs to Be Done?
Rights
Activist's Handbook (PDF 1Mb)
FAN’s new advocacy tool: Rights to Water and Sanitation; A Handbook for Activists is now ready to help you to adopt or improve your human rights-based approach to advocacy on water and sanitation.
Rights to water and sanitation website
A collaboration between WaterAid, FAN, Rights and Humanity and WASH United, this learning portal on human rights in relation to water and sanitation was relaunched on International Human Rights day in December 2010.
Civil Society
CIVICUS - Civil Society Watch Monthly Bulletin
Action-oriented newsletter distributed to over 7,000 people around the world, featuring updated alerts on threats to civil society, analyses of current situations, and information on recent publications and events.
Women
CARE resources on women and water
Care resource on women and water.
Stemming girls’ chronic poverty
Gives evidence to show that positive change for girls and young women is possible, even in the most challenging socio-cultural, political and economic contexts.
Environment
Multi-media resource from Greenpeace showing toxic water hotspots.
2010 Water and Environment Sector Performance Report Uganda
Released by the Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda.
Technology
Siting of Drilled Water Wells - A Guide for Project Managers
Step by step guide on the siting of drilled water wells.
UNICEF: Assessment of Groundwater Investigations and Borehole Drilling and Supervision Capacity in Uganda
Reveals that the borehole drilling and groundwater investigation capacity in the country is reasonable but needs to be strengthened to ensure that good quality services are provided by the licensed companies
The Code of Practice for Cost Effective Boreholes
Has just been endorsed by the USA National Ground Water Association (USA)
Drilled water well cost-effectiveness - Burkina Faso, Ghana and Zambia
The report tries to compare countries performance against the principles set out in the cost of practice for cost-effective boreholes.
Mapping
FLOW - (Field Level Operations Watch)
New baseline and monitoring platform that allows organisations to get a clear view of which water sources are working, on the verge of disrepair or broken.
Water Point Mapper
A free tool developed by WaterAid for producing maps showing the status of water supply services designed for use in situations where there is no internet connectivity.
From "hotspots" to "hopespots", the Africa Water Atlas maps out challenges and opportunities for water across Africa's 53 countries.
Water supply
Self Supply in Zambia
Report on UNICEF and Ministry of Water and Environment in Uganda south-south exchange visit to Zambia to learn about experiences of promoting Self Supply in Zambia.
Drinking water supply manuals
Skat has just made the series of six manuals on drinking water supply.
Scaling Up Rural Water Supply Service in Benin
Tracks progress on scaling up rural water supply service in Benin – one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa which is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target for rural drinking-water supply.
Private Operators and Rural Water Supplies: A Desk Review Of Experience
Demonstrates that private operators can improve water services in rural settlements or scattered rural homesteads with populations under 5,000.
Groundwater, self supply and poor urban dwellers: A review with case studies of Bangalore and Lusaka
Highlights the importance of not discouraging people from using these sources, but to emphasise the need to maintain the quality of this resource, combined with education about hand-washing and other hygiene measures.
Past resources
General
All India radio World Water Day talk
Listen to Depinder and Murali talk on World Water Day 2010.
India WASH Forum enewsletter
Bi monthly e newsletter of India WASH Forum – IWF Update
Latest news from the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Rights
Independent Expert on human rights, water and sanitation report on non-state service provision
Focuses on the human rights obligations and responsibilities which apply in cases of non-State service provision of water and sanitation.
Climate Change and the rights to water and sanitation
Examines the legal obligations concerning the rights to water and to sanitation, as well as those arising from the climate change regime. It further outlines the impact of climate change on the enjoyment of the rights to water and to sanitation, and offers recommendations on integrating human rights into climate change negotiations.
New water rights NGO: WaterLex
WaterLex is a new human rights NGO in the field of the right to water and sanitation based in Paris and Geneva. They are supporting the translation of our Activists Handbook in French.
Governance
Read all the latest from the FANSA network on their governance and transaprency work.
Download their latest governance newsletter
Climate Change
Climate Change and the rights to water and sanitation
Examines the legal obligations concerning the rights to water and to sanitation, as well as those arising from the climate change regime. It further outlines the impact of climate change on the enjoyment of the rights to water and to sanitation, and offers recommendations on integrating human rights into climate change negotiations.
GTZ ecological and sustainable sanitation newsletter
Quarterly newsletter on ecological and sustainable sanitation worldwide from German organisation GTZ.
Technology
Water Point Mapping made easy
The Water Point Mapper is a free tool developed by WaterAid for producing maps showing the status of water supply services. It is aimed at water, sanitation, hygiene practitioners as well as local governments working at the district and sub-district levels in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Mapper has been designed for use in situations where there is no internet connectivity.
Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goal +10 summit resources
End Water Poverty resources for the Millennium Development Goal +10 summit.
Financial
Civil Society website for Global Fund Replenishment
Information about advocacy efforts to mobilize resources for the Global Fund in the run-up to the replenishment meeting which will take place on 4-5 Octoberin New York.
Gender
Amnesty International report: Insecurity and Indignity: Women’s experiences in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya
Explains how lack of access to toilets and private bathing areas in the immediate vicinity of the home puts women at risk of gender-based violence and undermines their dignity and health.
Dams
Activist briefing kit: Dam standards 10 years after World Commission on Dams (WCD)
Provides activists with concrete examples of where and how the WCD principles have been (or in some cases, failed to be) applied. The briefing kit explores six broad principles covered by the WCD, which encompass basic values of human rights and sustainable development that are essential to minimizing the negative impacts of large dams on people and the planet.
Video: hydroelectric project threatens communities in Ethiopia
The Omo river is a vital part of life for many tribes living along its winding banks and now a hydroelectric project threatens the flood-retreat agricultural lifestyle of these people. Mark Angelo takes a closer look at the Karo tribe and their future. Also, read the blog.
Research
Understanding the water, sanitation and hygiene sector
A step by step guide for civil society organisations to conduct research into the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in a particular country, through carrying out an analysis of the capability, accountability and responsiveness (CAR) of the sector.
Utilities
Every Drop Counts - Learning from Good Practices in Eight Asian Cities
Summarizes practices culled from a case study series on successful Asian water utilities.
