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UWAPPDA allows NGOs to access district conditional grant
UWASNET-Standard Chartered Bank Project takes off
UWASNET to launch a dynamic website

Read more or download UWASNET WATSAN Monthly update July 2008 Issue[1].doc  (111 kB)

The manuals and reports are organized by the categories: Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), Economic Impacts/Financing, Environmental Compliance, Health/HIV/AIDS and WaSH, Hygiene Improvement/Promotion, Sanitation/Social Marketing, Sanitation Policy, Water Supply/Water Treatment, Water and Sanitation Sector Monitoring

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An Ecological Approach to Sanitation in Uganda using Arborloo and Fossa Alterna

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The four year-old efforts of local governments in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan to make their functioning more transparent, stimulate public participation and hence accountability are beginning to pay off.

WES News - Issue No 20, May 2008.pdf  (51 kB)

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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