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The Sanitation Workers Knowledge + Learning Hub is the best source for all current news, trends, articles and updates on sanitation workers rights around the world.
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A range of solutions has been developed to improve the quality of nutrition during the critical first 1,000 days of life. Little is known however about the potential contribution of market-based solutions. This report learns from the successes and failures of best practice organizations that successfully sell nutritious complementary foods and supplements for 6-24 month old infants to BoP …
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Based on the results, the following recommendations to any organization considering a large-scale, India-wide sample survey to monitor open defecation, latrine use, and progress towards the Swatchh Bharat Mission in rural India are made:
1. Ask about open defecation as part of an existing survey that already includes a household roster.
2. Ask about open defecation and latrine use …
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PROAGUA es el Programa de Agua Potable y Alcantarillado de la Cooperación Alemana en el Perú, que trabaja por encargo del Ministerio Federal de Cooperación Económica y Desarrollo de Alemania (BMZ) y tiene como contraparte al Viceministerio de Construcción, Vivienda y Saneamiento del Perú. El objetivo es el mejoramiento de la capacidad de los actores sectoriales para emplear eficientemente …
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Objectives: This study explores the integration of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and nutrition programming for improved child health outcomes and aims to identify barriers to and necessary steps for successful integration.
Methods: Sixteen semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with key stakeholders from both the WASH and nutrition sectors, exploring barriers to integration …
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During the second half of the 19th century, the River Senne became the preferred outlet for wastewater in Brussels. While at the beginning of the century, faecal matter was collected and sold to farmers as fertiliser, the gradual adoption of mains drainage had the direct effect of causing a lasting increase in pollution levels in the river.
This research focuses on this transition. It questions …
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Bolivia fue el promotor de la Declaración del Derecho Humano al Agua y Saneamiento y uno de los primeros países en incorporar este derecho en su constitución en 2009.
Cuenta con una población de 10.027.254 habitantes, de los cuales el 67,3% vive en áreas urbanas (Datos INE Censo 2012). Hasta finales de 2012 el 78,5% de la población boliviana tenía acceso al agua potable y el 49,4% acceso …
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En Nicaragua solamente 1.3 millones de habitantes que viven en las ciudades tienen acceso a la red de alcantarillado sanitario, lo que equivale a menos del 40 porciento de los hogares. La mayoría de estas aguas recolectadas es tratada con grandes deficiencias. La demás población urbana tiene letrinas o tanques sépticos. Muchas veces estos sistemas perjudican el medio ambiente por la …
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The recycling of organic waste worldwide is not effective, which leads to water pollution and loss of potential crop fertilizers. Available resources have to be used more efficiently as the world population increases. An innovative solution is to use insects for the management of organic waste. Here, we used black soldier fly to convert organic waste into animal feed protein, as fly larvae, and …
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A key aim of this publication is to share information about the legal enforcement of the human rights to water and sanitation. As such, it is a useful tool for judges, lawyers and those advocating for these rights, and should prove essential for crafting legal complaints that better ensure accountability for violations of the rights to water and sanitation and achieving effective remedies for …
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Researchers are exploring the possibility that poor hygiene and a lack of sanitation induce a gut disorder called environmental enteropathy (EE) that diverts energy from growth toward an ongoing fight against subclinical infection. Nutritionists are now collaborating with experts in a field known as water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), and their combined efforts are helping to galvanize …
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This paper aims to provide some practical guidance on how water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes can be more nutrition-sensitive and how nutrition programmes can incorporate more WASH aspects. It should be useful for all project staff working in nutrition and WASH programmes when WASH and/or a nutrition programme are in operation.
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La première partie de ce document explique le lien entre les interventions EAH et la sous-nutrition et l’importance de ce secteur dans une stratégie de lutte contre la sous-nutrition. La deuxième partie illustre le manque de priorisation et de financement du secteur EAH dans les programmes nutritionnels nationaux et internationaux.
Available in English titled "WASH and Undernutrition" …
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The first section of this document explains the links between WASH interventions and undernutrition as well as the important role the WASH sector has to play within a strategy to combat undernutrition. The second section highlights the low priority and poor funding that the WASH sector obtains within national and international nutrition programmes.
Available in French titled "EAH et …
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This document is about low-temperature slow composting toilets (called her moldering privy) in remote hiking areas in the US.
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The ATC Backcountry Sanitation Manual
addresses the management of human waste
in the backcountry. Proper management
of human waste protects hikers, the
environment, and trail maintainers.
Resolving problems of backcountry sanitation
is a …
