by Leslie Van Patter | Sep 11, 2017 | News
A new report from the World Bank, The Rising Tide: A New Look at Water and Gender “reviews a vast body of literature and offers a framework for visualizing water as an asset, a service, and a space. It shows how water is an arena where gender relations play out in ways that often mirror inequalities between the sexes. And it examines how norms and practices related to water often exacerbate ingrained gender and other hierarchies. Informal institutions, taboos, rituals, and norms all play a part in maintaining these hierarchies and can even reinforce gender inequality.” Read the report…
by Leslie Van Patter | Sep 11, 2017 | News, Water
Global Water Challenge teamed up with an analytics software company to analyze the largest existing data set on water points. Useful insights resulted that can predict the most impactful places to invest in water services. Read More…
by Leslie Van Patter | Aug 24, 2017 | News, Sanitation
Recent research offers insights into the impact of caste on open defecation, stunting, and high infant mortality rates in India. Concerns about pit emptying seem to be a the route of resistance to toilets – who will do the emptying? Traditionally a job of the Dalit caste, others don’t want to do it, and former Dalit caste members don’t either – they are looking forward. Read More…
by Leslie Van Patter | Aug 11, 2017 | News, Water
Clarissa Brocklehurst recently posted on the RWSN network the following:
At the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina, we decided to make community management the focus of our most recent WASH Policy Research Digest. (more…)
by Leslie Van Patter | Jul 13, 2017 | News
“Funding for safe, shared toilets in fast-growing developing-world cities is at risk of neglect from donors, policymakers and planners, a new journal articleauthored by sanitation specialists, senior economists and leading academics has warned.” More…
by Leslie Van Patter | Jun 29, 2017 | News
There is no question that awareness of conflict and conflict sensitive approaches are important to consider when undertaking assessments, planning, and implementation of development programs of all types. Of interest may be the Rotary International 3-month certificate program in Thailand. Here is an interesting BBC article written by a participant about the program and scholarships.
