New Practitioner Voices series!
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are very pleased to announce the 1st edition of the new series ‘Practitioner Voices’.
About the Practitioner Voices series: the series aims to amplify insightful perspectives of practitioners working within countries at local and regional level. Each edition will have a distinct focus.
About the 1st edition 'Tough Physical Environments': SLH was very lucky to work with 3 practitioners to present their ideas, challenges and innovations of working on sanitation and hygiene in ‘tough physical environments’.
Practitioner Voices stories:
What do you think? Let us know what you think of these stories! Are they useful for your work?
Call: Get involved in the 2nd edition ‘Lifestyles and livelihoods’
We would like to hear from sanitation and hygiene practitioners with experience of working with groups with temporary, transient or informal status.
This could include pastoralists, fishing communities, mining communities, nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, temporary workers and seasonal migrants. For more information please read the call.
Please scroll down for more info on stories and the latest call. As always your feedback and ideas are very welcomed - please contact us at slh@ids.ac.uk.
Many good wishes,
The Sanitation Learning Hub team
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Bait Al-Amir village is located in the highlands of Yemen, a remote and hard to reach area due to rugged terrain and checkpoints on route.
In 2019 the area was flagged as a focal point for the spread of diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, typhoid, hepatitis B, polio and helminths. This was largely due to all the 60 households being without appropriate sanitation.
Abdulwahab Almujahed's story talks about the key interventions in 2021 which included improving and building dry latrines (suitable for water scarcity areas), household water filters, behaviour change campaigns using CLTS tools, and focusing on the needs of women and people with disabilities.
These changes have led to a significant decrease in children’s diarrhoea and overall improvement of health and access to sanitation.
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Kureke is a fast-growing village near Kano City in Kano state, Nigeria. Mohammed Yakubu Abdulkadir's story focuses on the artificial lakes in Kureke that are illegally used as dumping sites by commercial solid waste disposers and faecal dislodging workers.
Faecal dislodgement in the lakes has led to the contamination of the water which is used by people of Kureke for domestic purposes. Vector-bourne diseases have increased as a result.
Mohammed Yakubu Abdulkadir's recommendations include the government providing a proper dislodgement site far away from human habitations where the faecal dislodgement can be treated before final dumping.
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Home to many nomadic and marginalised communities such as the Bagariyas, Kotri village is situated in the Ajmer District in Rajasthan, India. It is a water-scarce area due to declining groundwater resources.
Prachi Pal's story reflects on the severe sanitation and hygiene challenges, especially for Bagariyas women, due to extreme poverty, marginalisation and water-scarcity. Lack of access to water, sanitation and hygiene facilities is leading to constant poor health, severe infections and even death.
Prachi's story shows signs for hope. Manthan Sanstha is a community-based NGO, has been working with the Bagariyas by conducting awareness campaigns and constructing and donating underground water storage tanks.
Geeta and Pemal Devi, two Bagariyas women, comment “Earlier we had no way to store large amounts of water because all we had were small pots and buckets. With the construction of water tanks, we do not have to go in search of water daily; we can now store it in our tanks. We can take a bath more regularly and use clean/washed clothes during our menstrual cycle.”
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Share your stories on ‘Challenging lifestyles and livelihoods’
We would like to hear from sanitation and hygiene practitioners with experience of working with groups with temporary, transient or informal status.
This could include pastoralists, fishing communities, mining communities, nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, temporary workers and seasonal migrants.
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