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Solar Solutions for Rural Clinics
Solar can make all the difference...Read "The Next Billion's" recent article on the opportunities solar presents for rural clinics in low and middle income countries. An important missing link are off-grid appropriate appliances. Bringing it all together can save...
Learn Results Based Management online for free
Spur Canada offers free online Results Based Management course The online course takes a total of 3 hours. It is suggested you not spend more than 20 minutes at a time, in order to absorb the material. A certificate is available at the end.
Sanitation in India – progress and innovation
Recently, I had the privilege of spending a day in Patna, Bihar. Beautiful as it is, Bihar is one of India’s poorest states, with a record 70% of its population under the poverty line.
Inclusion in Kenya’s economy – 4 issues
Four Reasons Kenya’s Economy Might Not Be as Inclusive as You Think.
1 in 4 health care facilities lack basic water services
One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people, according to a new report by WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP).
New App to Map & Monitor the World’s Freshwater Supply
A new app to map and monitor the world's freshwater supplyWater affects all of us, no matter where we live. Drought harms everyone, from farmers in the western United States dealing with long-term drought, to people in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan suffering debilitating...
Member, PIND, talks about their successes with economic development
How we crashed cost of farming in the Niger Delta James Elekwachi is Economic Development Programme Manager at the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND. He tells Vanguard’s Egufe Yafugborhi, in this interview, that the development agency’s...
World Bank offers tools for urban faecal sludge management
In many cities, the emptying, conveyance, treatment and disposal of fecal sludge has largely been left to unregulated private, informal service providers. To address this neglected but crucial part of urban sanitation, the World Bank has developed some tools to...
Neglected Diseases – A Solution
“Amidst the devastation brought on by... neglected diseases is a neglected solution. Strong evidence shows that access to safe, sustainable and reliable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions plays a critical role in preventing transmission.”