Few African cities can claim to be able to provide water to all the people who live in them and rural areas fare even worse. An equally important related utility, sanitation, is often ignored but its economic cost to the continent is around $30bn. The cost in terms of poor health, ...
2008. A Snapshot of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Africa. WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. Prepared for AMCOM as a contribution to the 11th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union with special theme: "Meeting the Millennium ...
Safe water and sanitation are among the UN’s sustainable development goals. Such fundamental needs require creative solutions across all levels of society. Three organizations in the global south are doing their bit to improve provision of clean water,
Since 2001 the AfDB has approved a total of nine water and sanitation projects in Tanzania mainland and Zanzibar at a total cost of 700 million U.S. dollars. On Monday, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) special envoy for Water in Africa, former Kenyan...
The paper also provides recommendations towards achieving privatization of water and sanitation services.doi:10.4314/ad.v33i4.57347Nyangena KOAfrica Development Afrique Et DéveloppementNyangena, K.O. (2008). Privatization of Water and Sanitation Services in Kenya: Challenges and Prospects. International ...
"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted important needs in water, sanitation and hygiene services and standard practices for infection prevention and control in sub-Saharan Africa," says Mufaro Kanyangarara, assistant professor of epidemiology. "Our research revealed that the availability of these servic...
In this study, a pooled regression analysis of the compositional and contextual factors that systematically vary with access to water and sanitation services over a 25-year time period in fifteen countries across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was carried out. On the whole, substantial improvements have...
The water sector in South Africa is faced with numerous challenges, among which include; increased flooding and prolonged droughts caused by increased clim
Sustainability in water and sanitation, understood as the durability of services with a set of agreed characteristics over time, is a major challenge, particularly in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa. This fundamental issue must be addressed if the Sustainable Development Goals for universal access ...
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programs in African schools have received increased attention, particularly around the potential impact of poor menstrual hygiene management (MHM) on equity for girls' education. This study was conducted prior to a menstrual feasibility study in rural Kenya, to ...