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• (Journal Article) Water woes in India

  01.04.2006
  Over the last thirty years, India has seen a shift from reservoirs to groundwater as the main source of irrigation. Major investments in watershed programmes have reduced soil erosion and runoff, but the unintended result has been that many watercourses are drying up. There is a need for catchment-wide planning that takes into account groundwater abstraction, water harvesting and downstream use of water.

• (Journal Article) Evaluating the Kenya Voucher Programme

  01.12.2003
  BDS interventions that subsidize transactions are often thought to hinder market development by signalling that BDS can be obtained at an artificially low price. The justification for voucher programmes has been that MSEs are offered the chance to try out training at a temporarily reduced price, and if service providers respond to this opportunity, MSEs' lack of experience of the benefits of training is overcome, and they continue to purchase training at a higher level in future. This article discusses the economic rationale for intervention, then considers how to measure the short- and long-term development effects of incentives such as voucher and matching grant schemes. This is illustrated through an evaluation of the development impact of a recently ended voucher programme in Kenya, which shows signs of success in creating permanent market expansion in BDS training for MSEs.

• (Journal Article) Crossfire: ‘Does hygiene promotion risk making people feel more ashamed about their poverty and poor living conditions?’

  01.10.2010
  Does hygiene promotion risk making people feel more ashamed about their poverty and poor living conditions? Can stigmatization sometimes work against the public health goal?

• (Journal Article) Waterpoints

  01.01.1997
  

• (Journal Article) Crossfire: The ‘Occupy’ movement and the polarization of rich and poor demonstrate that we are losing the battle on poverty alleviation in the free market system

  01.03.2012
  

• (Journal Article) Towards success: impact and sustainability in the FIT programme

  01.03.1996
  The FIT programme (Farm Implements and Tools) is working to strengthen local capacity for action research, specifically in the field of non-financial services for micro- and small-scale enterprises (MSEs). High priority is being placed on the development of services which can be self-sustaining in the long term. If the services are self-sustaining, it is argued, then they are presumably in demand by the beneficiaries. They could also achieve considerable outreach in a cost-effective way, if they can be copied by others.At the same time, monitoring the impact of those services has been of great importance to both FIT and its partners, to understand what is actually happening, and in particular, to ensure that the ultimate effects have indeed been beneficial, for example in the creation of high-quality opportunities for employment. This article gives a brief description of the FIT programme; it then considers the demands of MSEs for services, and the impact achieved by some pilot activities to meet those demands. The needs of the end-users of MSE products, and the situation for the partner organizations, are also discussed. Finally, conclusions are drawn about demand, impact monitoring and the design of future activities.

• (Journal Article) Assessing a VIP latrine construction training course

  01.04.1992
  Many of the problems encountered on these training courses could be solved by running community-based courses for trainees with building experience.

• (Journal Article) Training engineering supervisors for small-scale irrigation development in Nigeria

  01.04.1991
  

• (Journal Article) World Bank presses on with handpumps testing programme

  01.01.1983
  

• (Journal Article) From the Editor

  01.03.1998
  

• (Journal Article) Conference and workshop news

  01.04.1998
  

• (Journal Article) Using drama to put across messages about water and sanitation

  01.10.1984
  

• (Journal Article) Diary

  01.07.1986
  

• (Journal Article) Notes and News

  01.03.1995
  

• (Journal Article) Web watch

  01.12.2005
  

• (Journal Article) Boreholes mean business

  01.07.1998
  A main tenet of providing more accessible water supplies is always 'to save women time'. When the women of Diass gained some extra hours, they wasted no more before plunging into business - with interesting social benefits.

• (Journal Article) Conference call

  01.04.2002
  

• (Journal Article) Technical Brief No. 51: Water, sanitation, and hygiene understanding

  01.01.2004
  

• (Journal Article) A handwashing communication intervention in Guatemala

  01.01.1995
  Mothers and other carers are often well aware of the importance of washing their hands, and the hands of their young children. Why, then, are rates of diarrhoea increasing in areas newly supplied with piped water? Elena Hurtado and Elizabeth Mills Booth describe how their team developed a strategy to hammer home the links between handwashing and health.

• (Journal Article) Webwatch

  01.01.2014
  This issue we look at recent reviews of sustainability assessment tools for WASH programmes, discussions on technology development and introduction into new contexts, and ongoing debates about the links between WASH and nutrition and what this means for our programmes.