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The Ripple Effect – Impacting Communities through Public Private Partnerships for Water and Sanitation
The Ripple Effect –
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Activities in brief
 
Normative Activities

  • Aimed at developing knowledge products, standards, norms and management toolkits.
  • Designed for policy makers, professionals and NGOs as an easy reference to good practices, how-to-do guidelines and promote review and development policies.

Regional Activities

Advocacy, Awareness Rising and Information Exchange:

  • Sensitizing stakeholders for policy, regulatory and tariff reforms.
  • Information exchange through interactive network, websites, newsletters, study visits, staff exchange, etc.

Urban Water Demand Management:

  • Interventions that improve efficiency in water distribution and use in urban water supply networks.

Slum Environmental Sanitation:

  • Demonstrate and develop approaches for slum improvement with local NGOs for access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities to the marginalized.

Gender Mainstreaming:

  • An important cross-cutting theme for empowering the community and addressing gender with a participatory and responsive approach in promoting sustainable development in water and sanitation services.

Training and Capacity Building:

  • Human resource development in a focused manner;
  • Strengthening the capacity of existing institutions; and
  • Establishing a regional network of experts and institutions.

Human Values-based Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Education (HVWSHE):

  • Introducing HVWSHE in schools;
  • Establishing water education classrooms in cities as pilot programme;
  • Community education, training of trainers, etc;

Country Level Operations

  • Support development and implementation of city level pro-poor governance and demand responsive strategies.

 
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