Inspired by Ned Breslin's "Naked Truth" episode on Micro-finance Loans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnNPgtx7mdY ), Water For People-Malawi takes a step back and asks some probing questions about the effectiveness of micro-financing sanitation.
Effective knowledge management for better coordinated emergency WASH response: Experience of Somalia WASH Cluster and lessons learned for all the relevant actors
The statistics are chilling: 53% of Madagascar’s 20.7 million people defecate openly every day while another 33% use dilapidated, unsafe toilets. The under-5 mortality rate of is one of the highest in the world, at 72 deaths per 1,000 children. One-fifth of these deaths are caused by diarrhoea, causing great personal anguish for families, straining health care systems, and stretching pocketbooks filled with a per capita income of just US$ 488 per year. In Madagascar, open air defecation leads to a loss of an estimated US$ 65 million per year.
Les statistiques sont effrayantes: 53% des 20,7 millions d’habitants à Madagascar pratiquent la défécation à l’air libre chaque jour si 33% utilisent des toilettes délabrées et plutôt dangereuses. Le taux de mortalité des enfants de moins de 5 ans est parmi les plus élevés dans le monde, à 72 pour 1000 naissances vivantes, un cinquième de ces décès est causé par la diarrhée qui engendre une inquiétude permanente pour les familles et un faible système de service de santé et les moyens maigres constitués d’un revenu annuel d’US $ 488 par individu. Pour Madagascar, la défécation à l'air libre engendre une perte estimée à plus de 48 Millions d'Euro par an.
Hon. Prof. Anna Tibaijuka, Tanzania Minister of Land Housing and Habitation, in her capacity as Chair of WSSCC, held a press conference today on the occasion of the visit of its Executive Director, Mr. Christopher Williams.
Today, some 65 representatives of Local Government agencies and civil society organisations in Tanzania participated in a meeting in the capital city Dodoma to learn more about the national Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme and their own potential involvement in it.
The View Of a typical Girls Toilet in Urban Slums of India .
Girl are facing a big problem in India both in (Urban & Rural Slums) in terms
of Toilets .
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