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   Rural water supply corruption in Ethiopia

   Publication - Books or book chapters - 3 September 2013

   Roger Calow, Alan MacDonald, Piers Cross

   For decades, corruption in Ethiopia has been discussed only at the margins. Perhaps because many have not experienced corruption as a significant constraint to their lives and businesses, or perhaps because a culture of circumspection has dampened open dialogue, Ethiopia has seen neither the information flows nor the debate on corruption that most other countries have seen in recent years. This chapter 4 focuses on rural water supply corruption in 'Diagnosing corruption in Ethiopia : perceptions, realities, and the way forward for key sectors'.

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   Innovation in cooperative farming, Rwanda

   Innovation in cooperative farming. Farmers work on terraced farmland supported by the Rwandese government and the World Bank in Kagano Village. Terrace farming promotes conservation techniques that increase productivity of key crops. Three-quarters of people who live in extreme poverty live in rural areas, and most rely on agriculture for their food and income. If these small farmers can boost their yields and get their surplus to market, they can feed their families, raise their incomes, and improve their quality of life. (Kibavu, Rwanda, 2010)
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Gates Foundation
   Source: Flickr
   

   Evaluating Hageremariam Integrated Rural Development Project (HIRDP) and Asagirt Integrated Rural Development Programme (AIRDP)

   Projects - June 2013 to December 2013

   This project will evaluate Hageremariam Integrated Rural Development Project (HIRDP) and Asagirt Integrated Rural Development Programme (AIRDP), including a re-assessment of selected school construction costs.

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   Getting to scale in urban water supply

   Publication - Briefing papers - 31 May 2013

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   Josephine Tucker and Nathaniel Mason

   This brief offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).

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   Getting to scale in urban sanitation

   Publication - Briefing papers - 1 May 2013

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   Josephine Tucker and Nathaniel Mason

   This briefing offers lessons for scale-up deriving from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor's 2008-2012 programme in Maputo (Mozambique) and Antananarivo (Madagascar).

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   Mary Muntari collects water from a stream in Kachia, in Kaduna State Nigeria

   License: ODI given rights
   Credit: Kate Holt/IRIN
   Source: IRIN
   

   Assessing and responding to risk in sanitation planning

   Event - Public event - 19 April 2013

   At this biannual meeting of the UK Sanitation Community of Practice, Julian Doczi, Research Officer in ODI's Water Policy Programme, gave a presentation on the assessment and response to climate change risk in sanitation planning with the use of 'tools'. He assessed the global extent of these tools and their relevance for this challenge.

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   Mary Muntari collects water from a stream in Kachia, in Kaduna State Nigeria

   License: ODI given rights
   Credit: Kate Holt/IRIN
   Source: IRIN
   

   Adaptation to climate change in water, sanitation and hygiene

   Projects - April 2013 to August 2013

   This project will analyse the risks to delivery of DFID Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) results posed by climate change and provide an economic analysis setting out the costs and benefits of adaptation options.

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   What role for sanitation in water cooperation?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 March 2013

   Today is World Water Day, in the International Year of Water Cooperation, so it seems appropriate to talk about water, right? Yet these terms, and many of the discussions you will read today, continue to omit one of the biggest factors for actually achieving clean and secure water for all: sanitation.

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   The battle for water - access to water pays double dividends in conflict-affected states

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 March 2013

   'There will always be places where water resources themselves are at the root of conflict and cooperation, but it’s often the human part - the way water, and sanitation, are delivered - which we need to address.'

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   Tearfund WASH service delivery in South Sudan: contributions to peace-building and state-building

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 21 March 2013

   Mickelle Kooy and Leni Wild

   This report forms part of a one-year DFID-funded research project, implemented by Tearfund and ODI, that aims to explore the links between service delivery of water supply and sanitation and the wider processes of state-building and peace-building in fragile and conflict-affected states. It has focused on Tearfund’s water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions implemented through the ‘Capacity Building to Improve Humanitarian Action in the Water Sanitation and Hygiene’ programme, funded by DFID CHASE. The objective of the programme was to increase the capacity of Tearfund disaster management team operations, local partner projects and local government departments in conflict-affected and humanitarian contexts, to support improved access to potable water, sanitation and public health education (PHE), resulting in sustainable improved health, well-being and dignity for grassroots communities.

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    To achieve water security, we must see its human face

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 February 2013

    ‘I am telling you, I am torn between my work and water.’
    
    ‘I cannot save water for myself while knowing that my neighbour has no water. I should give it to my neighbour.’
    
    ‘I cannot transport water on my own. However I can rely on others who have donkeys.’
    

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