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Admitting failure: the “naked truth” for water and sanitation?
Here is Ned Breslin, CEO of Water for People, standing naked next to a handpump in Uganda (safe for work thanks to two strategically placed jerrycans). Why? To illustrate the “naked truth”: this...
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Myths of the Rural Water Supply Sector
In a week or so I’ll be at 6th Rural Water Supply Network Forum in Kampala, Uganda. The event’s theme is Rural Water Supply in the 21st Century: Myths of the Past, Visions for the Future. RWSN set out...
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One more myth of rural water supply – what people really want
Back from the RWSN Forum and starting to blog some of the ideas that were discussed. Patrick Moriarty picks up on the ‘myths of the rural water sector’ paper and suggests that we need to add ‘the...
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Is Mali in the sustainability ‘danger zone’?
I’m back in London for a few months, and gave a presentation to staff in the WaterAid office here last week on progress made by WaterAid and its partners in Mali in using WaterAid’s Sustainability...
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Rural water services after 2015: what vision should replace the MDGs?
In my last post I referred to the concept of a ‘danger zone’ for rural water services – a term developed by the Triple-S project to describe the tension in many countries between the increased coverage...
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What Theories of Change apply in the water sector?
“Change is hard” in the rural water sector is the message from the Impact and Learning team at the Institute of Development Studies, who have been acting as external learning facilitators for the...
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Learning for Sustainable WASH: my four lessons from yesterday’s event
The Sustainable WASH Learning Event, hosted by Arup yesterday, was overall an honest assessment and discussion by different actors involved of where the sector has got to on thinking about...
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Political economy analysis of rural sanitation in Vietnam: changing Theories...
The WASH sector is beginning to explore how donors can more explicitly analyse political economy issues in order to better understand how they can influence WASH sector reforms. This is part of a wider...
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More changing Theories of Change, and the importance of flexible and trusting...
I wrote recently about the how the Triple-S sustainable rural water services initiative has tried to promote change in the sector: Relationship-led (i.e. using champions to mobilise change) Value-led...
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Five ways of thinking about failure in sanitation
I’m inspired back to blogging by a thought-provoking workshop yesterday on Learning from Failure in Sanitation, organised by the UK Sanitation Community of Practice (SanCoP). Huge thanks to all who...
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Learning from failure: lessons for the sanitation sector – new discussion paper
A version of this post first appeared on the BPD Water and Sanitation blog. I last blogged about the discussions at the Learning from Failure in Sanitation workshop organised by the UK Sanitation...
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Bamako to Kinshasa: a PhD and blog update
An update is long overdue: writing up my PhD took priority over blogging for most of 2013. Fortunately, I successfully passed my thesis defence and presented the final results to WaterAid in September...
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How to analyse institutional arrangements for rural water services and how...
I have a new paper in the International Journal of the Commons. The title is Bridging political economy analysis and critical institutionalism: an approach to help analyse institutional change for...
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How can we adapt the life-cycle costs approach for rural water supply in...
The DRC WASH Consortium, a programme of five international NGOs led by Concern Worldwide, has made the use of the life-cycle costs approach a central part of our approach to rural water supply. In...
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Reflections on the 38th WEDC Conference: how can we link debates on practical...
I’ve been back in DRC for a week now since the 38th WEDC Conference, “Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services Beyond 2015: Improving access and sustainability”, and have had time to reflect on the...
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