Water and sanitation

SNV Practice Brief: Supporting domestic accountability

25 November 2011

Accountability can be an abstract concept, but it comes alive for ordinary citizens if it involves looking at whether (and how) funding for services is distributed and spent at the local level. This Practice Brief is the first of a new series prepared by practitioners working with the SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. It helps to shed some light on what support organisations can do to amplify the voice of local stakeholders in demanding greater accountability from governments and service providers.

Interview: Changing the sanitation mindset

12 September 2011

Abadh Kishore Mishra, Regional director, Regional Monitoring and Supervision Office of the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage in Surkhet, Nepal
 

Water and sanitation in Nepal’s Midwestern Region
 

In the past, efforts to improve access to sanitation in Nepal’s Midwestern Development Region were hampered by fragmentation and by the rigid mindset of some development agencies. This changed when the country’s Regional Monitoring and Supervision Office at the Department of Water Supply and Sewerage stepped in.
 

Integrated Water Resources Management in practice

16 August 2011

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as a prerequisite for achieving equitable and sustainable development. However, this approach is poorly understood, even within the water sector. Using case studies, this book published in March 2009 explores how IWRM has contributed, at different scales, from very local, village-level experiences to reforms at national level and beyond to cases involving trans-boundary river basins.

SNV Practices - Developing capacities in Rwanda

15 June 2011

The entry point of this collection of experiences by practitioners working with SNV-Netherlands Development Organisation in Rwanda is that to effectively strengthen the capacity of local organisations for economic and social development requires a multi-faceted approach that covers social, psychological, technical, managerial, entrepreneurial, and governance capacity needs. The booklet explores diverse capacity building experiences and interventions covering the agricultural  production,  education, renewable energy, tourism, and the water, sanitation and hygiene sectors.

South African municipality scores for learning-based approach on water and sanitation

22 March 2011

The eThekwini Municipality in Durban, South Africa, is one of the two global recipients of the 2011 UN "Water for Life" Best Practices Award. The local authority was commended for its innovative approach to communication and awareness raising and its outstanding contribution to addressing key challenges related to water and sanitation in an urban area. 

Facilitating WASH forums

08 December 2010