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Blogpost l Measuring is Managing - Water Management
01 March 2013 | basic service delivery, blogpost, mdgs, sanitation, water, water governanceWater management lies behind most of the great development challenges of the 21st Century. It's obvious but we too often forget that we won't be able to achieve food security, energy security,...
Belize l Database to address bottlenecks in rural water supplies
03 December 2012 | belize, benchmarking, citizen reporting, data base, indicators, mdg7, nat initiative, sanitation, waterThe Millennium Development Goal Target 7C (MDG 7C) aims to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. This goal falls...
India l Local Initiative l A voice against corruption in water and sanitation – community video in India
16 November 2012 | corruption, india, local initiative, sanitation, video, waterIn the district of Khunti, Jharkhand, toilets were planned to be constructed under the government’s Total Sanitation Scheme. Whilst the statistics and official reports show that the work was done and...
Egypt: a sectoral governance assessment towards better MDGs achievement
24 January 2011 | arab states, education, egypt, health, mdg, mdgs, poverty, poverty reduction, sanitation, undp-supported, waterGood Governance and Anti-Corruption measurement research programs are at the core of the Social Contract Centre (SCC)’s efforts to rebuild trust between development stakeholders in Egypt....
Publication: Budget Advocacy for the water and sanitation sector in Nepal (Elbag, 6 Oct 2010)
06 October 2010 | advocacy, budget, mdgs, publication, sanitation, waterBudget Advocacy for the water and sanitation sector in Nepal A primer for Civil Society Organisation -Water Aid, Nepal This publication, a primer on budget, aims to equip civil society advocates, who...
Publication: Assessing sanitation service levels (WASH, 19 Sept 2010)
20 September 2010 | methodology, publication, sanitationConventional sanitation ladders rank sanitation in increasing complexity of technological options. However, sanitation improvement is not as straightforward as the concept of “a ladder” with...
Blogpost: Dying to Measure (WorldBank, 29 Aug 2010)
01 September 2010 | aid effectiveness, blogpost, evaluation, health, sanitation, waterStarting with water and sanitation interventions and then trying to gauge the health impact can actually take us away from our desired goal of securing health improvements. Reversing this approach to...