WSP-Africa, SKAT and UNICEF have played the lead role in recent years promoting RWSN activities. The partnership has grown with considerable contributions from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and other agencies recently.

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A musician from Mozambique who campaigns for clean water and sanitation gets a top environmental prize.

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This report presents the key findings and recommendations stemming from the trip by a team of consultants from the USAID–funded Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) visit to Uganda in October 2007. The objective was to determine if sanitation marketing (SM) would be a viable approach in Uganda, and to make specific recommendations to HIP and the donor community that would move the sanitation marketing agenda forward.
The team based its assessment on an analysis of the following factors concerning Uganda’s rural household sanitation sector:

• Policy Environment
• Formative Research
• Local-level Conditions
• Funding
• Policy
• Programs

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Opportunities for Sanitation Marketing in Uganda 2007 final.pdf  (962 kB)

2008 is the international year of sanitation (IYS), IYS is a Resolution of the WHA 2006. At least 8 Objectives were set and a Uganda Work plan for IYS showing priority areas for 2008.

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A ugandan community health club case and its impact on sanitation and hygiene.
Health extension workers singled out Nsumba village for its adherence to health and sanitation practices that has transformed the lives of its residents.The Club’s aim is to promote hygiene and sanitation in their members’ homes. The leader’s interest in sanitation and hygiene was triggered at some workshops she had attended.
An integrated family/community health promotion approach is being implemented to address income generation, hygiene and sanitation promotion, child immunization, improved food security, and prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria and water- and sanitation-related diseases like diarrhoea and common stomach disorders.

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The strength of the poor and marginalized community members is their unity, also it is worth to remember that when one finger points out to blame it makes no impact, but when you fold them into a fist you can strike a mighty blow. This is the spirit of Citizens’ Action in the slums of Kawempe- Uganda.

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What is Ebola?

Ebola is a killer disease, which presents with high fever and bleeding tendencies. Sometimes it may present with more non-specific symptoms like in the Bundibugyo epidemic.
It is very infectious, kills in a short time BUT can be prevented.

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This report presents inventories and abstracts of;

- Good household sanitation practices in rural, small towns and low-income urban settings in Uganda,
- Good primary school hygiene practices
- Materials on approaches, methodologies and capacity building in household and school sanitation & hygiene in Uganda.

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Home based caregivers provide critical support for people who are HIV infected and ill in South Africa as in many other countries.

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Unilever sells 2.6 billion bars of Lifebuoy soap every year across Asia and Africa and is the market leader in every Asian country where it is sold. Nearly half of the Lifebuoy brand's consumption is in rural Asia, where most of the population live on less than US$ 1 per day. The company promotes its approach as “more affordable products and formats to make it easier for consumers at the bottom of the economic pyramid to purchase soap.” Lifebuoy supports the “Berbagi Sehat” programme, which has been successful in communicating the importance of handwashing with soap in Indonesia – 84% of people touched by the campaign subsequently washed their hands with soap after defecating, compared to 58% in a control group. Lifebuoy sales increased by 22% in 2006, a convincing case for sustained investment in the programme.

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