Towards effective implementation of community based water safety plans: stakeholders engagement process in Afghanistan

The Rural Water Supply, Sanitation & Irrigation Programme (Ru-WatSIP) intends to implement a simplified community-based Water Safety Plan (WSP) approach in the rural water supply programme in Afghanistan. Such an approach is new to Afghanistan and faces some unique challenges. Alhough the main challenges reside in obtaining a common understanding on a simplified community-based WSP concept and agree on a minimum package of activities under the rural water supply program, there are other underlying factors such as the structure of community leadership and stakeholder participation which has hampered the process since its inception

Household water filters and waterborne epidemics: a case study from South Sudan

In 2016, the Technical Working Group (TWiG) of the national WaSH Cluster of South Sudan focused on water filter technologies in order to assess the suitability of the many filter products available for application in WaSH interventions within South Sudan. However, the TWiG didn’t analyse past disasters and water borne epidemics together with endemic diseases, and this paper wants to identify if there are and which are the criteria and information to be considered to choose the best filter (or other water treatment) to be distributed. Even if further specific research is needed, it looks clear that the analysis of historical epidemics of waterborne diseases in the area of intervention, together with considerations about the general context and technical characteristics of the available treatment devices, can help to identify the best water treatment solutions