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Welcome to Akvopedia, a free, open-sourced water, sanitation & hygiene resource (in addition to food security knowledge) that [[How to contribute|anyone can edit]]. Here you will find smart and affordable technologies and approaches in 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. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by [http://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation].
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|<font size="4">The [http://akvopedia.org/wiki/Handbook_on_Data_Collection Handbook on Data Collection[Survey Library]] is now onlinelive!</font><br>The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you in gathering, understanding, and using high quality data is collected for decision making in all things water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) -related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and maximum impact SIASAR. For instance, the Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is achieved. The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and implementing a data collection projectpopular standard for sanitation, drinking water, focusing on the development sector and including extra resources for more informationothers. |[[Image:Tablet-Use-demoSurvey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|200px400px|link=Handbook on Data CollectionSurvey Library|Photo: Care.org]]
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|[[Image:financing papers2Tablet-Use-demo.pngjpg|right|100px200px|link=Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4Handbook on Data Collection]]* '''Featured articleNew guide''': The [[Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4Handbook on Data Collection]] is . The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a unique data collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in emerging markets) - from financial inclusion project to private funding ensure high quality data is collected and from micro insurance to climate financingmaximum impact is achieved. The papers are very close Handbook covers vital elements to daily practicesconsider when designing and implementing a data collection project, written purely focusing on the basis of experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India development sector and Kenyaincluding extra resources for more information.
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|[[Image:Harvested_oil_palm_fruit_bunchesWHO_Guidelines_2018.jpgpng|right|100px200px|link=Sustainable Oil Palm Farminghttp://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf]]* '''New sectionGuide''': [[Sustainable Oil Palm Farming]]http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng. Sustainable intensification in smallholder oil palm plantations focuses pdf WHO: Guidelines on achieving good yields Health and profitsSanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, while from preventing infection to improving and maintaining soil fertilitymental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, minimising erosiona 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, maintaining water qualityas 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, controlling pestsespecially for women and girls. For all these reasons, diseases sanitation that prevents disease and weeds through integrated pest management ensures privacy and using agrochemicals safely and in the smallest possible amountsdignity has been recognized as a basic human right.
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|[[Image:rwh_hindifinancing papers2.png|right|60px200px|link=वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयनFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''New sectionFeatured article''': The [[वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन | Hindi Rainwater HarvestingFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]. We now have our entire rainwater harvesting section translated into Hindi! This comprises 43 pages is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of water sanitation (in emerging markets) - from financial inclusion to private funding and sanitation solutions that include capturing rainwater whether from the air, surface or groundwatermicro insurance to climate financing. We The papers are going very close to continue to create Hindi translations for our top 100 pagesdaily practices, written purely on the basis of experience, so check back soon for more Hindi pagesinsights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and Kenya.
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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 Jon at winonajon[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!
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