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Advocacy Sourcebook
A Guide to advocacy for WSSCC co-cordinators working on the
WASH campaign
The Sourcebook is divided into four sections. Section 1 is an
introduction to advocacy work, and considers what is advocacy,
the reasons for engaging in advocacy work and some of the issues
surrounding advocacy. The section closes with an outline of
some common concerns about advocacy work. Section 2 focuses
on how to undertake advocacy work, outlining the planning
process and describing the various tools and approaches which
can be used. Section 3 discusses the links between advocacy
and project/programme work in the field and issues of capacity
building, while Section 4 lists some of the available resources,
publications, networks and other organisations involved in
advocacy work and describes some of the key policy actors and
processes in the freshwater sector.
For more information visit:
http://www.wsscc.org/fileadmin/files/pdf/publication/
Advocacy_Sourcebook_interactive.pdf
Water and sanitation; what will deliver the improvements
required for urban areas?
Published: Oct 2003 - IIED
Series: Environment and Urbanization Briefs 08
Around 800 million urban dwellers lack the sustainable access
to safe drinking water that the Millennium Development Goals
prioritize, and close to 1 billion lack adequate sanitation. This
helps explain why Fifteen years of international agency support
for privatization has not produced the hoped-for improvements.
The increased focus on water stress as being the problem is still
often ill-conceived, as inadequacies in provision for water and
sanitation have little to do with inadequate freshwater supplies
and much to do with inadequate water management. New
directions are desperately needed to stop water and sanitation
deficits growing in the increasingly urbanized societies of Africa,
Asia and Latin America. There are new approaches based on
partnerships between government and communities that work
on a large scale yet require modest resources. This Brief gives
examples of community-designed, constructed and managed
toilet blocks that serve hundreds of thousands of low-income
people in Indian cities, and water points and sanitation blocks
that have greatly improved provision that are not classified as “water and sanitation” projects.
For more information visit:
http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=
10516IIED&n=9&l=17&s=EUB
Solution Exchange
Solution Exchange is an initiative of the United Nations Agencies
in India. It aims to harness the power of Communities of Practice
to help attain national development goals and the Millennium
Development Goals. The knowledge, experience and energies of
development practitioners are tapped to help evolve articles on
status of particular sectors, obtain information on innovations,
etc towards the common objective of problem-solving.
The underlyiong idea is that while “expert” knowledge is often
well documented, valuable tacit knowledge gained through
practitioner experience is typically lost or ignored.
Solution Exchange has been set up as a free, impartial space
where professionals are welcome to share their knowledge and
experience. Members represent a wide range of perspectives
from government, NGOs, donors, private sector and academia.
They are organized into Communities of Practice built around
the framework of the Millennium Development Goals. Through
moderated e-mail groups, members interact on an ongoing basis,
building familiarity and trust, gaining in knowledge that helps
them contribute more effectively – individually and collectively –
to the nation’s development challenges.
Today eleven Communities are up and running: Maternal and
Child Health, Water, Gender, Food & Nutrition Security, AIDS,
Decentralization, Education, Work and Employment, Microfinance,
ICT for Development, and Disaster Management.
Solution Exchange provides these Communities with three basic
email-based services:
- “Help” offers Community members solutions to questions
they raise
- “Comment” provides decision-makers with feedback on draft
policies, programmes and projects
- “Discuss” seeks insights on issues of major concern to the
Community
- A “Collaborate” service to promote small-group work to take
forward members’ ideas or products is to be evolved in the
future
For more information visit:
http://www.solutionexchange-un.net.in/en/
State of the World’s Cities 2008/09 - Harmonious Cities
Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades,
nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers.
Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities
gain an average of 5 million residents every month. As cities grow
in size and population, harmony among the spatial, social and
environmental aspects of a city and between their inhabitants
becomes of paramount importance. This harmony hinges on two
key pillars: equity and sustainability.
Downloadable from http://www.unhabitat.org
ISBN: 978-92-1-132010-7 ; Pages: 224 ; Year: 2008
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