Upcoming Training Programms in the new CDD Trainingcentre

by Lara Martens, BORDA Germany

The Consortium for DEWATS Dissemination (CDD) aims to create a knowledge base for up-scaling decentralised basic need services through its capacity building approach. The CDD Network is organising two new training programmes – the National Level Engineers’ Training on Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems (DEWATS) from August 17-22, 2009 and International On-site Training Programme on Community Based Micro Hydro Power Units from September 21-October 2, 2009.

Many positive outcomes thanks to the donation of the “East Asian Society Bremen”

By Tim Cordsen, BORDA Bremen
In 2007 BORDA launched its annual Fund Raising Campaign “BORDA helps” for the first time. The donated money was sufficient to fund two projects, one of them the construction of a new water supply in the south Indian village of Jalahallihundi. Especially the amount of 18.000 Euros that was donated by the “East Asian Society Bremen” boosted this project. Together with its Indian Partner organization RLHP Borda was able to establish a new water supply. The best way to describe the situation is to listen to the inhabitants of Jalahallihundi:

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.