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International Year of Sanitation and Ecological Safety in Kyrgyzstan. Challenges and new opportunities of increase in sanitation safety in rural areas

Kyrgyzstan WASH Coalition
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Kyrgyzstan
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2008
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Summary

At an international conference in the spirit of the International Year of Sanitation, participants exchanged ideas on safe water, population health, and sustainable sanitation problems. They appealed to the government of the Kyrgyz Republic to include WHO recommendations into state legislation, to governments in Central Asia to help preserve common transboundary water resources, to the business sector for sustainable sanitation technologies, to the Global Sanitation Fund to focus on Central Asia, and on international donor organizations to support sustainable sanitation programmes.

About the author

The Kyrgyz WASH Coalition includes various national and international actors. The coalition’s focus is the inclusion of WASH issues and hygiene behaviour change in primary school education with the participation of teachers, government, and civil society. To that end, in 2008 the coalition held workshops and lectures in schools and universities in the southern provinces on the link between sanitation and hygiene. It also published WASH materials in a national school newspaper; and prepared a hygiene curriculum and teachers’ manual for use in primary schools. In 2009 the coalition organized a Radio WASH Campaign to raise WASH awareness.

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