Perspectives are different frameworks from which to explore the knowledge around sustainable sanitation and water management. Perspectives are like filters: they compile and structure the information that relate to a given focus theme, region or context. This allows you to quickly navigate to the content of your particular interest while promoting the holistic understanding of sustainable sanitation and water management.
What are water markets and tradable permits and how can they be achieved? This page gives a short overview related to these questions. It further contains a list of documented related cases.
This document is about creating a video for development in rural areas. Besides different possible forms of producing video material, it includes case studies to each one topic. Even though it is not specialized on water and/or sanitation, it is helpful for getting general information on video and video production for rural areas.
LIE, R. MANDLER, A. (2009): Video in Development. Filming for Rural Change. London: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and URL [Accessed: 21.04.2019]
This document guides you through all steps of writing a radio serial drama. It offers some theoretical background information, but the main part focuses on practical methods. It is useful for both novices and experienced scriptwriters who have not yet written a serial drama that educates as well as it entertains.
FOSSARD, E. de (1996): How To Write a Radio Serial Drama for Social Development. A Script Writer’s Manual. John Hopkins University Population Communication Services URL [Accessed: 21.04.2019]
This guide for the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for all (WASH) campaign offers practical guidance on advocacy work related to water and sanitation. It aims to explain the different advocacy tools, provide practical examples of advocacy work, and provide information on key policy actors and processes and how to influence them at local, national and international levels.
WATERAID & WSSCC (2003): Advocacy Sourcebook. A Guide to Advocacy for WSSCC co-ordinators working on the WASH campaign. WATERAID & WSSCC URL [Accessed: 21.04.2019]
“A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: Toolkit” is helpful for providing the first few steps for practitioners of participatory video to begin introducing a rights-based approach into their practice.
BENEST, G. (2010): A Rights-Based Approach to Participatory Video: toolkit. InsightShare URL [Accessed: 21.04.2019]
This book provides detailed information about drawing up advocacy action plans that aim to improve the water supply and sanitation situation. The document presents concrete examples of advocacy work in practice and it provides many tools, tables and diagrams, which advocacy workers may like to reproduce, adapt or distribute for their own advocacy campaign.
WATERAID (2007): The Advocacy Sourcebook. London: WaterAid URL [Accessed: 21.04.2019]
This is the synthesis report of the Human Resource Capacity Assessments. In the water and sanitation sector, the human resource requirement to meet the water and sanitation targets has been relatively unknown in relation to the numbers of staff, qualifications and their practical experience. IWA developed an assessment method to collect data on human resource gaps (skills) and shortages (number of workers) at the national level in the water and sanitation sector. The assessment method was piloted in five countries in 2009, Mali, Zambia, South Africa, Bangladesh and Timor L’este and in phase 2 a more structured approach was used for 10 in-country assessments (Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Mozambique PNG, Sri Lanka, Lao PDR and Philippines, Niger, Senegal, and Ghana).
IWA (2013): Human Resource Capacity Gaps in Water and Sanitation. Main Findings and the Way Forward. London: International Water Association (IWA) URL [Accessed: 16.04.2019]
This paper examines how the international NGO WaterAid supports decentralised local governments in Mali to fulfil their role of service authorities within a service delivery approach for rural water services.
JONES, S. (2013): How Can INGOs Help Promote Sustainable Rural Water Services?. An Analysis of WaterAid’s Approach to Supporting Local Governments in Mali. In: Water Alternatives: Volume 6 , 350-366. URL [Accessed: 15.04.2019]
This guide is very helpful to plan of privatisation. It first gives some background information on privatisation, then discusses whether privatisation is a good solution and last leads through the actual planning and implementation.
GREEN (2003): Advocacy Guide to Private Sector Involvement in Water Services. London: WaterAid and Tearfund URL [Accessed: 15.04.2019]This part of the website of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) provides you with an overview of education material on sustainable sanitation.
This webpage from the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) offers a lot of guidance material, academic resources, and journals about decentralisation and local governance.
The Sustainable Sanitation Center (SUSAN Center) is a multidisciplinary convergence center of Xavier University. The SUSAN center is committed to a science-based and multi-sectoral engagement in sustainable sanitation, aiming to achieve a cleaner and healthier environment and promoting human dignity for peaceful and sustainable development in Mindanao, the Philippines and the wider Southeast Asian region. The SUSAN centers core activities include capacity development of communities, policy makers and other institutions on sustainable sanitation and to support the development and implementation of various sustainable sanitation technology solutions.
The IRC WASH Library acts as WASH Sector memory documenting more than 40 years of sector progress, analysis and tools. The library provides direct access to a still increasing number of WASH sector documents.
This bulletin aims to inform readers not only about the rationale for and foundations of decentralisation in Mali, the institutional support arrangements and the first achievements of the process at local level, but also about the issues and challenges arising from this process.
SNV ; CEDELO (2004): Decentralisation in Mali: Putting Policy Into Practice. (= Bulletin 362 ). Amsterdam: Royal Tropical Institute URL [Accessed: 15.04.2019]On this website in German, many links can be found to different publications on privatisation in Africa. KOSA (Coordination Southern Africa) is very active in the sector of water and privatisation.
This toolkit by the World Bank leads through the whole planning and implementation phase. It offers both theoretical background material and practical guidelines for the process in a very detailed way, including stakeholder analysis and institutional and legal framework conditions.
THE WORLD BANK (2006): Approaches to Private Participation in Water Services. A Toolkit. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/ The World Bank URL [Accessed: 15.04.2019]