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The Neem Tree

This paper gives you an overview about the neem tree and its benefits.

HDRA (1998): The Neem Tree. Coventry: HDRA - The Organic Organisation URL [Accessed: 27.04.2012]
Organic Soil Amendments for Sustainable Agriculture: Organic Sources of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium

Sustainable agriculture, which is characterised by farming profitably while minimising damage to the environment, is not easy to practice. “Conventional” agriculture in the USA is commonly considered to involve practices that have potential to damage the environment. These include tilling the soil excessively, over applying readily soluble inorganic fertilisers (“chemical fertilisers”), and over applying pest-control formulations (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.). “Sustainable” agriculture attempts to find alternatives to such practices, alternatives that are economically feasible but have less potential to cause environmental damage.

HUE, H.V. SILVA, J.A. (2000): Organic Soil Amendments for Sustainable Agriculture: Organic Sources of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. In: SILVA, J.A. ; UCHIDA, R. ; Plant Nutrient Management in Hawaii’s Soils, Approaches for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture. Honolulu: 133-144. URL [Accessed: 25.04.2012]
Factors Determining the Effectiveness of Oxfam’s Public Health Promotion Approach in Haiti

In response to the devastating Earthquake of January 12th 2010 and the cholera outbreak of October of that same year Oxfam Great Britain, Oxfam Quebec and Intermón Oxfam conducted public health promotion and cholera response in Haiti. Different promotion activities were applied which aimed at changing hygiene behavior by changing perceptions and beliefs about healthy behaviors amongst people affected by crisis. In February 2011 four Oxfam affiliates in Haiti in partnership with a team of behavior change researchers from Eawag launched the present research project to do an in-depth evaluation of the promotional activities that had been conducted with the goal of further improving the WASH situation for people in Haiti and worldwide by understanding how to make hygiene promotion more effective. The main focus of the research project was around the question which specific promotion activities were strongly associated with perceptions and beliefs about handwashing with soap and were thus capable of changing handwashing behavior at key times.

CONTZEN, N. MOSLER, H.J. (2012): Factors Determining the Effectiveness of Oxfam’s Public Health Promotion Approach in Haiti. Duebendorf: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (EAWAG) URL [Accessed: 24.04.2012]
Hygiene Promotion: Determining what Works. Cholera Response in Haiti

When a massive earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, followed by a cholera epidemic that broke out in October of that year, Oxfam rushed assistance—clean water, sanitation, and hygiene materials and information—to hard-hit areas to protect public health.

OXFAM (2012): Hygiene Promotion: Determining what Works. Cholera Response in Haiti. Boston: Oxfam International URL [Accessed: 24.04.2012]
Start your Sanitation Business

The entrepreneurship guide “Start your Sanitation Business” is a training guide for masons, manual and mechanical emptiers of latrines. The guide aims to present to the reader the basic steps for him/her to create a small-scale business in the sanitation sector in four steps. The guide can be used for self-study as it is an interactive document with theory and around 30 related exercises and answers. WASTE offers also a 3-day training based on the guide. It has to be noted that the guide is still in a draft version, as it is continuously updated.

AGATHOU, N. (2011): Start your Sanitation Business. For Masons, Manual and Mechanical Emptiers of Latrines. Gouda: WASTE URL [Accessed: 24.04.2012]
Water Wells that Last for Generations
BUCHANAN, B DE LA CRUZ, N. MACPHERSON, J. WILLIAMSON, K. (2010): Water Wells that Last for Generations. Edmonton: Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development URL [Accessed: 23.04.2012]
Household water treatment and safe storage in emergencies

This document is intended as a general manual on household water treatment and storage in emergencies. Methods of treatment but also promotion are presented, including factsheets, a decision tree and very comprehensive illustrations.

IFRC (2008): Household water treatment and safe storage in emergencies. pdf presentation. Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) URL [Accessed: 23.04.2012]
Corn and Water

Corn is the most widely cultivated grain in the world, ahead of both wheat and rice. Read more about the advantages of this crop.

LIMAGRAIN (2010): Corn and Water. Chappes: Limagrain URL [Accessed: 23.04.2012]
Lessons Learned in WASH Response During Urban Flood Emergencies

This paper identifies various lessons that can be learned from urban flood emergencies, with a focus on the WASH sector. It includes urban flood management issues in emergencies related to water, sanitation, hygiene and various crosscutting issues.

GLOBAL WASH LEARNING PROJECT (2008): Lessons Learned in WASH Response During Urban Flood Emergencies. New York: Global WASH Cluster URL [Accessed: 23.04.2012]
Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, Third Edition

This volume of the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality explains requirements to ensure drinking-water safety, including minimum procedures and specific guideline values, and how those requirements are intended to be used. The volume also describes the approaches used in deriving the guidelines, including guideline values. It includes fact sheets on significant microbial and chemical hazards.

WHO (2008): Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, Third Edition. Third Edition incorporating the First and Second Addenda. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) URL [Accessed: 23.04.2012]
Sustainable Sanitation for Emergencies and Reconstruction Situations - Factsheet of Working Group 8 (draft)

This well structured and informative factsheet from the SuSanA network deals with the planning of sustainable sanitation for emergencies and reconstruction situations in low- and middle-income countries.

JOHANNESSEN, A. BIKABA, D. (2009): Sustainable Sanitation for Emergencies and Reconstruction Situations - Factsheet of Working Group 8 (draft). Eschborn: Sustainable Sanitation Alliance SuSanA URL [Accessed: 23.04.2012]
Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation Executive Summary

This is the executive summary of the 220-page manual on the right to water and sanitation, written in a non-legal language. The manual is a tool to assist policy makers and practitioners develop strategies for implementing the human right to water and sanitation.

COHRE ; AAAS ; SDC ; UN-HABITAT (2007): Manual on the Right to Water and Sanitation Executive Summary. Geneva: Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) URL [Accessed: 22.04.2012]
Poo

This comic strip by Sourabh Phadke explains why sanitation matters, how urine and faeces can be treated and how technical measures should be applied. A great piece of artwork and a funny reality check for sanitation issues.

PHADKE, S. (2009): Poo. Pune: Aman Setu Publication. [Accessed: 22.04.2012]