Campaign Art: Reinvent the Toilet
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire.
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'Convening and Brokering' in Practice: Sorting out Tajikistan’s Water Problem
In the corridors of Oxfam and beyond, ‘convening and brokering’ has become a new development fuzzword. I talked about it in my recent review of the Africa Power and Politics Programme, and APPP...
View ArticleCampaign Art: Unleashing the Power
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire.
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Government Spending Watch - A New Initiative You Really Need to Know About
I’m consistently astonished by how little we know about the important stuff in development. Take the Millennium Development Goals – the basis for innumerable aid debates, campaigns, and negotiations. A...
View ArticleCampaign Art: Help a Child Reach 5
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. Facebook and Youtube are the first and third most popular social...
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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Three reasons investors are beginning to take sustainability seriously The Guardian Most of the...
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Sanitation For All: Ignore Quality at Your Own Peril
The excellently named Research Institute for Compassionate Economics (R.I.C.E) recently published an equally excellently named survey – the SQUAT (Sanitation Quality, Use, Access and Trends) survey....
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Campaign Art: Kick Off Your Birthday by Bringing Fresh Water to the Sahel
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire.charity: water, launched its annual "September Campaign" this month...
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The Things We Do: Shame is a Powerful Thing
Billions of dollars are spent each year on sanitation, healthcare, and good governance, but the results vary quite a bit from place to place. What separates successful programs from the unsuccessful?...
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Technology Alone Will Not Save the World: Lessons from the 2015 Gates Letter
Melinda and Bill Gates have made an annual tradition of publishing their thoughts on international development and its key challenges. Given the substance, I assume these letters reflect an annual...
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The false dichotomy among sanitation-for-all advocates
The sanitation debate has suffered from a seemingly irreconcilable dichotomy when it comes to identifying the best approach towards sanitation for all. A good way of blocking progress in an argument is...
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Why do sanitation campaigns fail?
The study finds that the govt’s rural sanitation programme, implemented by NGOs, was unable to reduce exposure to faecal matter. A recently published Lancet paper looks at the impact of the erstwhile...
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Six steps to a successful sanitation campaign
Inadequate sanitation costs India $54 billion a year. To that, add the challenge of juggling our nationalistic aspirations of superpowerdom with the ignominy of housing the largest share of human...
View ArticleCampaign art: Want to be a hero? First, go wash your hands.
People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. Hand-washing is one of the single best habits any individual can...
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What can historical success teach us about tackling sanitation and hygiene?
Ooh good, another ‘lessons of history’ research piece. Check out the excellent new WaterAid report: Achieving total sanitation and hygiene coverage within a generation – lessons from East Asia. The...
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Tackling cholera through radio in Kenya
David Njuguna, a mentor for BBC Media Action Kenya, looks at how a volunteer-run local radio station is helping prevent cholera in Kenya.Kamadi, presenter at Mtaani Radio in Nairobi, Kenya Last year...
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Meaty issues on the radio
Ehizogie Ohiani, a Producer/Trainer for BBC Media Action in Nigeria, discusses how radio is raising awareness about the lack of hygiene amongst the butchers of Benue State, Nigeria.A meal without meat...
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Reading ICAI’s review of DFID WASH results
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), UK’s aid watch dog, today, released its review of DFID’s programming and results in water sanitation and hygiene (WASH). In this impact review, they...
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There is no famine in South London today
Not a likely headline in today’s world, and yet this is among the most important news in recent history. Since Homo sapiens appeared on the planet, societies have experienced steady progress on all...
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Weekly wire: The global forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.Humanitarian Action and Non-state Armed Groups: The International Legal Framework Chatham House A...
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