Goldman Global Award for Yuyun Ismawati

By Andreas Ulrich, Director BORDA

On behalf of the BORDA partner network and its associates, I would like to warmly congratulate our colleague, Ms. Yuyun Ismawati, for winning the Goldman Global Award.

I still remember my first meeting with Yuyun in Bali in 2000 during my search for a Balinese partner for BORDA`s SANIMAS (“sanitation by communities”) project, that was funded by AusAID through WSP-EAP. Yuyun was recommended to me by a good friend of mine, Paul Boon, then Country Director of the Belgian NGO, FADO.

BORDA Activities in Mekong-China Region are now coordinated by BORDA South East Asia Programme Office

By Gert Kreutzer, January 24^th 2008

With the start of the year 2008, the BORDA Basic Needs Services package, including DEWATS and Community Based Sanitation (CBS) will be distributed by the BORDA South East Asia Programme Office in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The South East Asia dissemination region currently covers six countries: Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, the Philippines and Southern China.

Quality Management Standards Manual will be introduced as soon as possible

By BORDA Programme Office Indonesia

On the 11th to 12th of July, 2007, the DEWATS Certification Body held a Quality management Standards workshop at the BORDA Indonesia office, Yogyakarta. It was the second time this year that they met to discuss the revision of the Quality Management Standards Manual. The aim of the workshop was to finalize the revision of the manual so the standards could be introduced as soon as possible.

Sanitation Mapping is a "Must Do"

by Didin Jamaludin (Sanitation Mapping Coordinator BORDA Indonesia)

The main objective of Sanmap is to gather the information of current urban sanitation conditions to assist local governments in making strategic plans for the next 5 to 10 years.

I am not surprised to see so many abandoned public facilities built by government and NGOs in the last decade in Indonesia. Do you know why? Do you think is it because they built the facilities in the wrong area or lack of public awareness of them? Or do you think that the transfer of knowledge from the initiators to the end-user is misled? How about the people’s sense of belonging? Who’s to blame? Who is responsible?

Written by BORDA Office Indonesia

On February 14th 2007, members of the German Parliament were accompanied by representatives from the German Embassy in Indonesia to visit the community based Tofu waste water treatment facility in Seyegan/Sleman Yogyakarta. The Bupati of Sleman regency welcomed the guests.

Seyegan Tofu Industrial Communal System is a co-financed activity of the local Government of Sleman and the environmental program of GTZ (ProLH).