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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. Project teams can learn more about financing, constructing, and maintaining a project in order to keep it functioning and stable for the long term. Some pages are translated in up to 9 languages (upper right of each page may have language flags), as we are increasing new translations continually. We also have the Google translator on each page. It will translate any English page into more than 90 languages. It cannot translate our hand-translated pages, only the English versions of those pages. Akvopedia now contains [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles primarily in English, including some in French and Spanish. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by [http://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation].<!--
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{||<font size="34">'''Have a look at our new Sustainability PortalThe [[Survey Library]] is now live!'''</font><br>[[ImageThe Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: water-maintenance.png|right|200px|link=http://akvopedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_Portal]] [http://www.irc.nl/ IRC] standards and Akvopedia have teamed up to produce an all new [[Sustainability Portal|Sustainability Portal]] based on the Dutch WASH Alliance [http://wwwsurveys.washalliance.nl/fiets-strategy/ F.I.E.T.S. principles] of financialStandards assist you in gathering, institutional, environmental, technologicalunderstanding, and social sustainability. Included are the 10-part [[Sustainability Frameworks and Tools|Triple-S building blocks]] from IRC and other sustainability frameworks. With over 50 new article pages and many more sustainability toolsusing high quality data for decision making in all things water, slideshows, and videos... water and sanitation project members can now think about their WASH system's longevity with confidence. '''Helpful topics include:''' [[Participatory methods|Participatory methods]]; [[3R (water) – Recharge, Retention and Reuse|3R hygiene (waterWASH) – Recharge, Retention and Reuse]]; [[Capacity support - local government|Capacity support - local government]]; [[Life-cycle costing|Life-cycle costing]]; [[Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan)|Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan)]]; [[Community-Led Total Sanitation|Community-Led Total Sanitation]]; [[Self Supply|Self Supply]]; [[O&M water supply|O&M water supply]]; and [[Monitoring|Monitoring]]related. Surveys 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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* '''Guide''': [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for women and girls. For all these reasons, sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a basic human right.
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* '''Featured article''': The [[Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]] is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in emerging markets) - from financial inclusion to private funding and from micro insurance to climate financing. The papers are very close to daily practices, written purely on the basis of experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and Kenya.
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| * '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE:''' [[Community Based SavingsImage:national flags.png|right|250px|<font size="2">'''Community Based Savings'''</font>]] - Community-based saving is a microfinance model that is considered We are proud to be an effective method for financing projects in sustainable sanitation and water management. This is an effective method for saving a small amount of money by organising or joining a saving group of up to 25 people. These people might be colleagues, friends or neighbours coming from the same community. The method is very simple and easy to implement. * '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: announce our Akvopedia [[Gender Mainstreaming|<font size="2">Gender Mainstreaming</font>Translations]]''' - Gender mainstreaming is the process of assessing the implications program! We have started our language program with translators for women French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and men of any planned actionTamil), Korean, including legislationChinese, policies or programmesIndonesian, in all areas and at all levelsJapanese, with many more to come. It is a strategy See the upper right of each English page for making women’s as well as men’s concerns and experiences an integral dimension of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in different language flags. Not all political, economic and societal spheres so that women and men benefit equally (gender equality) and inequality is not perpetuatedpages have been translated yet.Our most popular translations are: <br>* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGEThe entire [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Hindi: [[Transparency & Accountability|वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <font size="2"br>Transparency & Accountability<* The entire [[Water Portal /font>Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]]''' - '''Transparency''' refers to the right of citizens to access relevant information. Openness and public access to information are vital, so that water-users can understand the decision-making processes that affect them. '''Accountability''' is a broad concept that entails several dimensions and is often used section in different ways. Some see it as a mechanism to hold people and institutions accountable, whereas others may see it as a concept referring to the actual application and implementation of rules and standardsFrench: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGEMost of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Spanish: [[Harmonisation & Coordination|<font size="2">Harmonisation & Coordination</font>Captación de Agua de Lluvia]]''' - Harmonisation and coordination enables all actors – national and local government, donors, lending banks, NGOs and other water sector stakeholders – to recognise and adhere to common principles and approaches when supporting rural water services. For instance, the principle of aid effectiveness, which means external actors will better coordinate amongst themselves and align behind a recipient country's national policies, priorities, and systems.
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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:Winona akvo2Jon.jpg|right|120px]]Do you have quality content that you would like to contribute to Akvopedia, but lack the time or resources to upload it? Akvopedia offers free limited editorial services and always appreciates suggestions and links to expand our WASH wiki. Please contact our editor Winona Azure Jon at winonajon[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!
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