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Sustainability and Scale-up of Household Water Treatment and safe Storage Practices: Enablers and Barriers to effective Implementation

This paper provides insights from the ground on scaling up sales of household water treatment products (HWTS). The data collected is based on interviews carried out in over 25 countries. 47 enabling factors as well as barriers were identified to sustaining and scaling up HWTS. The findings were clustered as: user guidance on HWTS products; resource availability; standards, certification and regulations; integration and collaboration; user preferences; and market strategies.

OJOMO, E. et al. (2015): Sustainability and Scale-up of Household Water Treatment and safe Storage Practices: Enablers and Barriers to effective Implementation. In: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health: Volume 218 , 704–713. URL [Accessed: 23.07.2018] PDF
Design Thinking for Social Innovation

The article introduces design thinking as concept and provides case studies on how the design methodology has been applied in practice.

BROWN, T. and WYATT, J. (2010): Design Thinking for Social Innovation. URL [Accessed: 23.07.2018]
Design Thinking as Strategy for Innovation

Introduction to design thinking as method to creatively solve problems and come up with ideas for improving products and service delivery.

NAIMAN, L. (2016): Design Thinking as Strategy for Innovation. Vancouver: Creativity at Work URL [Accessed: 23.07.2018]
On Decoupling Points and Decoupling Zones

This paper outlines a framework for production and storage management based on content, represented by four key decision categories, and an overview of a process for applying the content.

Published by Taylor & Francis under License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.

WIKNER, J. (2014): On Decoupling Points and Decoupling Zones. In: Production & Manufacturing Research: Volume 2 , 167–215. . URL [Accessed: 23.07.2018] PDF
Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, Fourth 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 (EDITOR) (2011): Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality, Fourth Edition. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) URL [Accessed: 11.07.2018]