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India's women given low-cost route to sanitary protection

Few Indian women can afford sanitary towels. But one social entrepreneur aims to change that, and provide an income too: Arunachalam Muruganantham went to great lengths to develop an effective solution, even wearing sanitary towels and a device filled ...

27/01/2012 - 12:43

Backspace vs delete

A few weeks ago.. I sat beside Phalombe’s District Water Supervisor in his office today, my computer fully charged in anticipation to facilitate another computer lesson on Microsoft Excel. He had committed to working on computer lessons twice a ...

29/11/2011 - 10:51

Let’s have commercial toilets at all fuel stations to curb open defecation

Ghanaian engineer and technologist, Dr. Albert M. Wright, who introduced the Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit ( KVIP ), has prescribed the mandatory construction of toilets at the country’s many fuel stations, to help curb the high incidence of open ...

25/10/2011 - 13:25

Harnessing GIS Mapping and Social Media for Better Sanitation & Hygiene in Informal Settlements

I know it is close to two months since I blogged last. To be precise it was just after the AfricaSan3 either early or Mid August. Since my last post quite a number of things have happened including sharing with my peers from the Region of Eastern ...

21/10/2011 - 13:22

Participatory Follow-Up Tools: The Shit and Shake and Calculating Ingested Shit

Malawi One pager by Karina Redick, Engineers Without Borders Canada on Participatory Follow Up Tools for CLTS (participatory followup tools the shit and shake and ...

29/11/2011 - 10:59

Towards a Clean Nanded:The story of implementation of City Sanitation Plan in Nanded

India In February-March 2011, a City Sanitation Plan ( CSP ) was prepared for Nanded City in Maharashtra using a Citizen Led Total Sanitation ( CLTS ) approach. The ...

05/10/2011 - 13:44

Innovative Approaches to Implementing CLTS in an Urban Setting in Ghana

Ghana Lessons, challenges and opportunities from piloting CLTS in a small town of Lekpongunor in the Dangme West District of Ghana . A paper by Nii Lantei Wellington, Eugene ...

21/09/2011 - 13:46

Formation of the First Chiefdom CLTS Taskforce in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone Short report from Goal Sierra Leone on the formation of a Chiefdom Taskforce that aims to help with monitoring and sustainability of ODF communities in Kenema ...

08/09/2011 - 15:42

Progressing towards the millennium development goals for sanitation through CLTS

Mali Note by Modibo Diallo (National Directorate of Sanitation, Mali) and Nicolas Osbert ( UNICEF Mali) discussing whether CLTS latrines can be considered ‘improved means of ...

24/07/2011 - 11:59

Tales of Shit: Community-Led Total Sanitation in Africa (PLA 61)

Burkina Faso Ethiopia Kenya Malawi ...

27/07/2011 - 14:36