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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]]. We strive 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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{|[[Image:Civil_society_food_security.jpg|right|250px|link=Food & Nutrition Security Portal]]<font size="4">New portal: The [[Food & Nutrition SecuritySurvey Library]]is now live!</font><br><br>Thanks to our partnership with [httpThe Survey library contains two "shelves" of information://wwwstandards and surveys.icco.nl/ ICCO Corporation], we have a new 31 page [[Food & Nutrition Security Portal]]! <br>Food and Nutrition security exists when all peopleStandards assist you in gathering, at all timesunderstanding, have physical, social and economic access to food, which is safe and consumed using high quality data for decision making in sufficient quantity and quality to meet their dietary needs and food preferencesall things water, and is supported by an environment of adequate sanitation, health services and care, allowing for a healthy and active life hygiene (CFSWASH)-related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. We welcome this new sector Some of knowledge to our water 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 base in Akvopedia, as they are very closely linked and go hand-in-hand in eliminating poverty and defending the right to clean drinking water, sanitation and plentiful foodothers.|[[Image:Survey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org]]<br>|}{|-
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|[[Image:internal_space1Tablet-Use-demo.pngjpg|right|100px200px|link=Accessible WASH DesignHandbook on Data Collection]]* '''Our new New guide''': [[Accessible WASH DesignHandbook on Data Collection]] pages''' are useful for disabled, elderly, the sick, and children - all those who need special help with accessing . The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality data is collected and using sanitation facilities. It maximum impact is made for use by staff, working directly with communities - eachieved.g. health workers and community volunteers working with disabled and older people The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and their families in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africaimplementing a data collection project, and beyond. Most of focusing on the ideas are suitable for disabled development sector and older people, but are not only including extra resources for them. As we get older, many of us find it increasingly difficult to squat and balance, or we might be injured or sickmore information.
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|[[Image:sustainable sanitationfinancing papers2.png|100pxright|right200px|Source: [http://www.pseau.org/outils/biblio/index.php?vue_pgm_o_toutlink=1&tri1=titre&pgmpseau_id=37&l=fr&langue=en&operateur_titre_contenant=%2B&motclef%5B%5D=129&vuepp=3&autosubmit=1 www.pseau.org]Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''70 Sustainable Sanitation Documents from [http://pseau.org Pseau.org] Featured article''': We now have links in our The [[Sustainability PortalFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]], column 5 is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (Social Sustainabilityin emerging markets) for 70 new documents in both French - from financial inclusion to private funding and Englishfrom micro insurance to climate financing. These colorfully illustrate a variety The papers are very close to daily practices, written purely on the basis of handwashing experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation methods that include topics such as schools programmes in India and gender. Great for teaching kids! All links go to the [http://www.pseau.org/outils/biblio/index.php?vue_pgm_o_tout=1&tri1=titre&pgmpseau_id=37&l=fr&langue=en&operateur_titre_contenant=%2B&motclef%5B%5D=129&vuepp=3&autosubmit=1 pseau.org] site where you can search by topic, country, or target audienceKenya.
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We are proud to announce our new Akvopedia [[Translations]] program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, 3 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: <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[Rooftop rainwater Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseHindi: [[屋顶雨水收集वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[WASH Environmental Sustainability AssessmentWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseFrench: [[WASH环境可持续性评估La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''New Translation:''' Our Most of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map| Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in ChineseSpanish: [[雨水收集的地理信息系统地图Captación de Agua de Lluvia]].
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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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