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November 19 is World Toilet Day – a day to celebrate the humble, yet vitally important, toilet and to raise awareness of the global sanitation crisis. Ada Williams, WaterAid's Learning Coordinator for Sanitation in West Africa, explores the issues.Download World Toilet Day 2008 (MP3 10MB)
WaterAid's Country representative in Madagascar, Lucky Lowe, talks about our work in the country – from using puppets shows and drama to break down sanitation taboos at community level to influencing key decision makers at policy level. Download WaterAid's work in Madagascar (MP3 11MB)
Aline Ouédraogo, from WaterAid in Burkina Faso, discusses how they helped set up of the Civil Society Network which acts as the public's voice on issues of water and sanitation, and the use of theatre in broaching the taboo subject of sanitation and hygiene.Download Voicing water and sanitation (MP3 9MB)
Lydia Zigomo, WaterAid's Head of Region - East Africa, explores the problems a lack of clean water and sanitation pose to children and how WaterAid works with them to improve their situation.Download WaterAid and children Part 1 (MP3 7.7MB)Download WaterAid and children Part 2 (MP3 6.5MB)
Lajana Manandhar, who works for WaterAid's partner Lumanti in Nepal, talks about an innovative project to tackle the growing problem of wastewater management in the urban areas of Kathmandu.Download Eco community(MP3 5MB)
Pamela Rodrigues, WaterAid's Country Representative in Pakistan, talks about the work of WaterAid and its partners in Pakistan, as well as how the Pakistani Government addresses water and sanitation.Download Water & sanitation in Pakistan Part 1 (MP3 7.5MB)Download Water & sanitation in Pakistan Part 2 (MP 4.8 MB)
Yéréfolo Mallé, WaterAid's Country Representative in Burkina Faso,explains why the need for good water resource management is growing inWest Africa, and describes someof the techniques used - including small dam construction and rooftop rainwater harvesting.Download Managing water Part 1 (MP3 8.5 MB)Download Managing water Part 2 (MP3 2.4 MB)
Deborah Kogi works for one of WaterAid's partners, an organization called Women in Nigeria. In this edition, Deborah talks about the importance of including women in the decision-making process when carrying out water and sanitation projects.Download Women in Nigeria (MP3 6.2MKB)
Abdul-Nashiru Mohammed, WaterAid's Regional Policy and Advocacy Advisor in West Africa, talks about two different types of advocacy tools used for community action - water point mapping in part one and community scorecards in part two.Download Community-based advocacy Part 1 (MP3 3.7 MB)Download Community-based advocacy Part 2 (MP3 4.3 MB)
Bhushan Tuladhar from WaterAid's partner Environment and Public Health Organization in Nepal discusses the problems caused by unhygienic sanitation and what his organization is doing to tackle them, including the use of composting (or ecosan) latrines.Download Sanitation in Nepal (MP3 8.4 MB)
Photo: Brent Stirton
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