Posts Tagged ‘English’
Hey Evo! Want to End Bolivia’s Sanitation Crisis? Here’s How!
By Mark Duey
In Bolivia, where President Evo Morales will run for an unprecedented fourth term in October, there are roughly 400,000 families without a toilet.
Please, not another new treatment technology! How about better systems for water testing?
By Kelly Latham
Despite the temptation to focus on better water treatment technologies, Water For People’s experience has highlighted the need strengthen water quality testing systems instead.
National-level Policy Setting: The Ultimate Expression of our Work
By Eleanor Allen
Our contribution to this quest of achieving SDG 6 is to support national and district governments, in a servant leadership way, so that the systems are in place to function without us in the future to deliver lasting, quality water and sanitation services.
Scaling the Everyone Forever model in Bolivia
This is a transcript of Eleanor Allen’s keynote speech from Latinosan, April 2019. We are all here this week to learn, share, and hopefully change the way water and sanitation services are delivered in order to accelerate our progress. To achieve these objectives, I am going to share how agents of change are putting sustainable services with our reach.
Read MorePolitical will: the secret sauce to reaching Everyone Forever
By Mark Duey
Water For People’s Everyone Forever model has been building momentum since its inception in 2011, attracting attention from donors, other WASH organizations, and, most importantly, governments from around the world. 2018 was a historic year for Water For People, so “what’s in the water” at Water For People?
No Short Cuts: Reaching Scale Takes Time and Persistence
By Steven Sugden
“In the beginning, it was tough,” explains Samrat Gupta, Business Opportunity Analyst with Water For People’s India Team. “We visited hundreds of households trying to sell toilets and we didn’t sell one.”
Reflecting on Forever: Water For People Forever Workshops
By Ellen Witt
As a learning organization, ongoing reflection is a cornerstone of Water For People’s approach. Following our annual monitoring process, Water For People hosts separate Water Reflection Sessions and Sanitation Reflection sessions in each of our nine Country Programs.
The blue piece of plastic that’s changing lives
Think about your bathroom.
Now think about it with flies and odors that never go away.
This is the reality for millions of people around the world who use open pit latrines.
Water For People’s Work Supports National Recognition of West Bengal Community
One of the communities where Water For People works in West Bengal, India, has been recognized for its achievements to significantly enhance the quality of life for its residents.
Read MoreSDG 6 changed the game: Now let us agree how we should measure it
The recently released SDG 6 baseline from the WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) provides an opportunity to first take a step back and look at the big picture of water and sanitation services, then to lean in closer to understand the intricacies behind that picture.
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