This brief presents the Empowerment in WASH Index (EWI), a new tool for measuring empowerment in the water, sanitation and health sector, and shows how it has been applied in Burkina Faso.
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Modelling heavy metals in the Buriganga River System, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Impacts of tannery pollution control
The industry intensive capital area of Bangladesh is impacted with high levels of metals pollution in rivers in the Greater Dhaka Watershed. This research assesses pollution in the Buriganga river system using river sampling as well as simulating metals using the INCA model.
Streamflow response to climate change in the Greater Horn of Africa
The Greater Horn of Africa region increasingly experiences high risk of water scarcity. This research published in Climate Change finds that future streamflow will decrease as a result of climate change in major trans-boundary rivers in the Horn of Africa.
Designing and delivering research-into-use programmes in the WASH sphere: Experience from SHARE, REACH and the USRI
This Discussion Paper considers the experience of three ongoing research-into-use programmes (REACH, SHARE and USRI), identifying the major challenges they have faced in achieving research uptake, and discussing strategies theyare using (or might use in future) to overcome those challenges.
Guideline: Selection, training and managing para-hydrologists
This guideline is aimed at technical staff involved in introducing community-based monitoring (CBM) and gives guidance on the selection, training and managing of para-hydrologists to ensure the successful running of CBM.
Guideline: Community-based hydroclimate monitoring: planning, establishing and operating
This guideline, aimed at technical staff involved in introducing community-based monitoring (researchers, development agents and woreda-level experts) provides a step by step procedures on how to plan, establish and operate community-based monitoring.
Have coastal embankments reduced flooding in Bangladesh?
This paper analyses floods during the years 1988–2012 in South Western Bangladesh, diagnosing whether the floods were attributable to monsoonal precipitation, high upstream river discharge into the tidal delta, or cyclone-induced storm surges.
Best practice guide: developing inclusive conferences
This document is a practical ‘how-to’ guide to help conference organisers promote diversity of attendance and inclusivity of participation at events.
A social-ecological analysis of drinking water risks in coastal Bangladesh
Groundwater resources in deltaic regions are vulnerable to contamination by saline seawater, posing significant crisis for drinking water. In this paper, the authors use a social-ecological systems approach to evaluate the risks to drinking water security in one of 139 polders in coastal Bangladesh.
Construction of a Low-cost Mobile Incubator for Field and Laboratory Use
This paper describes a method for building an adaptable, low-cost and transportable incubator for microbial testing of drinking water.
