Postcards from the field
Recent postcards from the field
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Community-based Behaviour Change on Infant Faeces Management in PNG
To help communities in East Sepik in PNG develop safer practices, WaterAid and partners developed practical tools to deliver a community-level hygiene behaviour change campaign addressing infant faeces management.
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WASH programing for Gender Equality in Timor-Leste
WaterAid Timor-Leste developed a Community Dialogue Manual (CDM) to help guide development practitioners to facilitate dialogue between women and men, to build a shared understanding of the current gender roles and relations and how this can be changed to be fairer. The manual was published in English in August 2016 and endorsed by the government of Timor-Leste. The CDM has been seen to be effective in encouraging change towards gender quality and is already being utilized by several other NGO’s and government organizations.
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Hands up for gender transformation
The work of Female Community Health Workers in Mid-Western Province of Nepal work is having a profound impact in communities and homes, and is changing the way men and women interact by challenging traditional practices. SNV's work in Nepal is influencing traditional views on menstruation.
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Vouchers and Sanitation Marketing in Timor-Leste
The limited availability of sanitation solutions that are both desirable and affordable has presented a key barrier to reducing open defecation in rural areas of Timor-Leste for many years. To address this, during the past year WaterAid has been working in Liquiça municipality on the importation, sale and marketing of the Kloset SaTo Pan - a lightweight, inexpensive and water-efficient pour-flush toilet. We’ve focused on both strengthening the supply chain and generating demand. WaterAid trialled a voucher scheme to incentivise vulnerable households in Open Defecation Free communities to upgrade their toilets.
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Simple Inclusive Sanitation Solutions in Vanuatu
Women and girls with disabilities face multiple layers of discrimination, creating barriers which stop them from achieving their full potential. In Vanuatu Live & Learn supports the TopWan Community-based Sanitation Enterprises to construct and supply portable toilets to people living with disabilities in the peri-urban settlements around Port Vila without sanitation. Anik is a women with disabilities who has benefited from a portable toilet.
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Sanitation Enterprises supported by Honiara City Council
Partnerships between government, NGOs and civil society groups are important for the successful expansion of Honiara and the surrounding region. One example of such a partnership is between Live & Learn, the Honiara City Council and two community-based sanitation enterprises in the peri-urban settlements of Namoliki and Henderson. Both of these areas are experiencing rapid growth, and face a complete lack of government sanitation services. Community-based sanitation enterprises are local small businesses providing affordable toilet options for families.
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Bhutan celebrates its first District to end open defecation
The highlight of this year’s World Toilet Day celebrations in Bhutan was the declaration of Mongar as the country’s first district to end open defecation and achieve 100% access to and hygienic usage of improved sanitation facilities. SNV has been working with the Ministry of Health through their Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All project of the CS WASH Fund to help secure this achievement.
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Toilets in schools - increasing learning time for students
For a long time, 1,211 students at Longwe primary school in Phalombe district relied on old, unsafe latrines which were falling apart. This left the students with no option but to use the nearby bushes to relieve themselves, or even go back home to use their family’s toilet. This is a long distance for the majority of the students, and they would miss class so they could use the toilet. United Purpose has constructed latrines within the school premises. “The latrine has improved class participation of learners as they no longer travel back home to use a latrine. It has also improved faecal matter disposal as learners no longer go to the bush to defecate because they can use the latrine” narrated Faston Nyalungwe, sanitation patron at Longwe primary school.
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Turning faeces into productivity
31-year-old Martha Mandala is a farmer, who sells her produce to local markets and was looking for a way to lower her farm input costs so she could maximise her profits. When she heard about the Ecosan latrine, she was surprised to learn that a toilet could be just what she was looking for. “To me, I feel the Ecosan latrines are the best way to dispose faecal matter to turn it into something useful like manure.”
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