DEWATS - A Proven Solution to the Sanitation Gap

By Gert Kreutzer, BORDA Germany

As always, the 2008 World Water Week in Stockholm will feature some 100 workshops, seminars, and side-events. True to the theme “Progress and Prospects on Water: For A Clean and Healthy World” this year’s World Water Week will have a special focus on basic sanitation. Representatives of the BORDA head office in Bremen, Germany, will attend the conference together with more than 30 other delegates from the BORDA-BNS-Network in Asia and Africa. The BORDA Network will host its own event and give a presentation as part of a workshop.

BORDA introduced Health Impact Assessment and -Monitoring for all Community Based Sanitation Projects in India

By Meike Zinn-Meinken, BORDA Consultant

Background: BORDA and its 16 network partners in India are implementing sanitation projects including the construction of DEWATS in slums and poor peri-urban settlements for the last 8 years. Due to time and resources constraints, a systematic evaluation of the achieved impacts on the health and hygiene condition of the direct beneficiaries/users could not be done until this year.

In spring 2008, BORDA together with 5 partner organizations developed a tool allowing the evaluation of already realized impacts and an on-going health and hygiene impact monitoring.

Basic Sanitation in Kolar Goldfields

In March of this year the journalists Katharina Nickoleit and Christian Nusch travelled to India on behalf of a German radio station to produce a firsthand documentary on the basic sanitation measures in India. They reported ona poor urban slum settlement in the Indian city of Kolar Gold Fields near Bangalore. Coincidentally, Kolar Goldfields is a settlement that had benefited from BORDA’s expertise and the successful implementation of various basic sanitation measures.

The programme was broadcast on 23 June 2008. You can download the full podcast (mp3-format, 5,2mb) here.

Sanitäre Grundversorgung in Kolar Gold Fields

Im März diesen Jahres reisten die Journalistien Katharina Nickoleit und Christian Nusch nach Indien um im Auftrag eines deutschen Radiosenders einen Beitrag über Maßnahmen zur sanitären Grundversorgung in Indien zu produzieren. Es entstand eine Radioreportage über eine Slumsiedlung in der Indischen Stadt Kolar Gold Fields in der Nähe von Bangalore. Dort hatte BORDA im Rahmen des Indien Programms Maßnahmen zur sanitären Grundversorgung umgesetzt.

Der Radiobeitrag wurde am 23. Juni 2008 ausgestrahlt. Download der ganzen Sendung (mp3-Format, 5,2mb) hier.

A Special Focus on Sanitation

With over 40 seminars and nine workshops already preliminarily scheduled in and a brand new expanded conference venue, this year’s World Water Week in Stockholm aims higher than any ever before.

The 2008 World Water Week in Stockholm will feature workshops, seminars, and side-events to cover a wide breadth of topics to address the multiplicities of issues in water and development policy, planning and management.