“Helping Cities Reach Everyone with Water and Sanitation Services” The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select few social entrepreneurs whose proven innovations have demonstrated impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems. The Skoll Award recognizes organizations with the potential to not only be individually successful, […]
Listen to Richard Thomas, Assistant Director of United Nations University Think Tank on Water (UNU-INWEH – http://inweh.unu.edu/) explain the role the private sector can play in helping to add value to local producers and rural communities’ agriculture through processing, marketing, business education, capacity building and innovation, shared technologies and practices.
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Rural homes in China that lack sanitation face health and hygiene issues, particularly during the flooding season. Red Cross programs, supported by the International Federation and funded by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Department, have brought clean water, sanitation, and awareness through the Chinese Red Cross Vulnerability Reduction Program. This program targeted flood prone villages,
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Listen to Dr. Corinne Schuster-Wallace from UNU-INWEH(http://inweh.unu.edu/) discuss how to bridge the gap between business and social enterprise to solve water & sanitation issues in developing countries.
Impact on lack of sanitation in rural communities and the well-being of families.
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Nairobi, Kenya, World Water Day 2010 Three quarters of the planet is covered by water, yet only about one per cent is available for human agricultural, manufacturing, community and personal use. Unsafe drinking water, along with poor sanitation and hygiene, are the main contributors to an estimated 4 billion cases of diarrhoeal disease annually, causing
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http://www.worldbank.org/we – In one of the most densely populated areas in the world, the need for a dependable water supply is critical in the Gaza Strip. The scarce water resources presents a major humanitarian and development challenge. The environment is choked with untreated sewage, threatening the health and well being of the Palestinian population, as well
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The guideline focuses in the links between WASH and DRR in emergency response and early recovery. In this guideline the following WASH components are covered: Water supply Excreta disposal Hygene practice Vector control Solid waste management Drainage of wastewater and stormwater Global WASH Cluster, UNICEF New York, 2011 Disaster Risk Reduction, Water, Sanitation and
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Gender and diversity-sensitive water, sanitation and hygiene promotion initiatives lead to more equitable, effective and efficient programming for all members of vulnerable communities. This guidance note provides an overview of gender and diversity issues and practicalities to be kept in mind when designing water, sanitation and hygiene promotion programmes. The practical guidance presented here makes this a hands on tool to
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The signs are clear that we need to rebalance the way we address issues of water and sanitation and align them with global issues such as health, hunger and economic growth. The lack of access to adequate and sustainable sanitation facilities takes its highest toll on the poor, underprivileged and disenfranchised. We need to explore, develop and advocate for ways