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Welcome to Akvopedia, the a free, open -sourced water and , sanitation & hygiene resource (in addition to food security knowledge) that [[How to contribute|anyone can edit]]. The goal of Akvopedia is to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on Here you will find smart and affordable technical solutions technologies and effective approachesin rural or urban settings. Akvopedia now contains [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles Project teams can learn more about financing, constructing, and maintaining a project in Englishorder to keep it functioning and stable for the long term. In the coming monthsSome pages are translated in up to 9 languages (upper right of each page may have language flags), two as we are increasing new portals called Emergency and Sustainability translations continually. We also have the Google translator on each page. It will be developedtranslate any English page into more than 90 languages. It cannot translate our hand-translated pages, and only the current Finance portal will be fully updated and extendedEnglish versions of those pages.
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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=sust portal icon.png|alt=Sustainability Portal|width=140px|link=Sustainability Portal}}</div> The [[Sustainability Portal|Sustainability Portal]] contains information on numerous sustainability frameworks, tools, and methods, using the F.I.E.T.S approach.
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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=decisions portal box.png|alt=Decision & Assessment Tools|width=140px|link=Decision & Assessment Tools}}</div> [[Decision & Assessment Tools|Decision & Assessment Tools]] contain several tools, assessments, or kits that aid in the implementation of water and sanitation projects in an easier way.
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{|If |<font size="4">The [[Survey Library]] is now live!</font><br>The Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you would like to contribute to Akvopediain gathering, understanding, and using high quality data for decision making in all things water, you need an edit account. To get thissanitation, please send an email to m.t.westra [at] akvohygiene (WASH) -related.orgSurveys are questionnaires that apply the standards.
Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and SIASAR. For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a popular standard for sanitation, drinking water, and others.
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* '''New guide''': [[Handbook on Data Collection]]. The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality data is collected and maximum impact is achieved. The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and implementing a data collection project, focusing on the development sector and including extra resources for more information.
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|[[Image:ropepumpfinancing papers2.jpgpng|leftright|200px|link=Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]] Project* '''Featured article''': The [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/project/17/ Training on Rope Pump Manufacture[Financing Sanitation, MadagascarPaper Series I-4]. Training private sector operators ] is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in lowemerging markets) -cost hand pump manufacture. Project partners: [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/organisation/15/ Practica Foundation], [http://www.akvo.org/rsr/organisation/43/ Aqua for All], from financial inclusion to private funding and [http://wwwfrom micro insurance to climate financing.akvo.org/rsr/organisation/17/ VSA]. Result: 8 people trained during workshopThe papers are very close to daily practices, 480 people affected. Description: Training local workshops to manufacture family rope pumps to facilitate dissemination written purely on the basis of package of low cost water drilling experience, insights and pumping techs at both community materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and household levels by Voahary SalamaKenya.
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|{{[[Image:national flags.png|right|250px|]]We are proud to announce our Akvopedia [[Translations]] program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, with many more to come. See the upper right of each English page for the different language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet. Our most popular translations are:Featured content}}<br>* The entire [[Featured contentWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |Read more Rainwater harvesting]] section in Hindi: [[वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <br>* The entire [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in French: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* Most of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Spanish: [[Captación de Agua de Lluvia]].
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|'''Share your news and knowledge''' on water and sanitation by contributing articles to the Akvopedia. We've used the same conventions as the well-known online resource Wikipedia, so adding and editing articles is quick and easy to learn. This [[Editing an Akvopedia page | graphical guide]] will get you started; more detailed information about editing wiki articles is available in the help pages: [[Help:Contents]]
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|[[Image:MarkWestra2Jon.jpg|right|80px120px]]Do you have good quality content that you would like to contributeto Akvopedia, but you lack the time or the resources? Would you like to propose a new item, or do you need help with putting content in the pagesupload it? Akvopedia offers free limited editorial services, provided by and always appreciates suggestions and links to expand our editor Mark Tiele WestraWASH wiki. Please contact him our editor Jon at m.t.westrajon[[Image:Atat symbol.pngjpg|14px12px]]akvo.org.Thank you for visiting!
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