Coming attraction: New look IWRM ToolBox website 1st October

Below are links to some new information resources from various environmental health organizations. The websites listed below and others can be found on the Environmental Health at USAID website at:  http://www.ehproject.org/ehkm/eh_links.html

Asian Development Bank

• 2007 Benchmarking and Data Book of Water Utilities in India - http://www.adb.org/documents/reports/Benchmarking-DataBook/2007-Indian-Water-Utilities-Data-Book.pdf
  Information on water utilities in 20 cities joining the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission.

Environmental Health at USAID

• Ethiopia - The Population, Health and Environment Nexus: the Need for Integration and Networking, 2008. (pdf, 268KB)
  http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/phe/woldu-phe_ethiopia2008.pdf 
   
• Malaria Bulletin, Sept 2008 (pdf, 280KB) - Abstracts & citations of 90+ articles.
  http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/malaria/malariabulletin-sep08.pdf 
   
• Urban Health Bulletin, Jul/Aug 2008 (pdf, 81KB) - Presentations from World Water Week 2008.
http://www.ehproject.org/PDF/ehkm/urban_health-jul_aug08.pdf

Hygiene Centre-London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• Hygiene Centre ‘Tools for Schools' Toolkit -
http://www.hygienecentral.org.uk/res_schools.htm
To better understand the unique determinants of children's behaviour, the Hygiene Centre has been working for some years now on developing a set of tools which are tailored to effective communication with, and information elicitation from, children, especially in developing countries.

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre -

• The Facilitation Toolkit -
http://www.irc.nl/content/download/137692/412831/file/facilitation.pdf
A collection of documents explaining the concepts of of capacity building, learning and facilitation, and providing a range of tools, methods, skill and exercises to put it into practice.

• Hand Washing Reduces Mortality Risk in Newborns. HIP Note to the Field. Sept. 2008
http://www.hip.watsan.net/content/download/2431/13765/file/Hand%20Washing%20Reduces%20Newborn%20Mortality%209%2008.pdf - Summarizes a recent study in Nepal that examined the relationship between hand washing practices and neonatal deaths. Demonstrated the reduction in neonatal mortality from hand washing with soap by the birth attendant prior to delivery (25%) and hand washing by mothers before handling newborns (60%) compared with those who did not wash hands.

• Woreda Resource Book: Community-Led Total Behavior Change in Hygiene and Sanitation. The Amhara Experience in Line with the Health Extension Program. The book outlines 12 key doable and achievable steps, which have been identified and tested on the ground through a learning by doing experience to help people change unsafe behaviors and bring about change in basic hygiene and sanitation. These steps can be customized to fit different circumstances and tailored to community settings with diverse cultures.
http://www.hip.watsan.net/content/download/2464/14005/file/Ethiopia%20Woreda%20Resource%20Book%207.08.pdf

WaterAid

• Sanitation and Water - Why we need a global framework for action ( PDF, 174Kb). "This report highlights the weak global response: aid for water and sanitation is declining as a proportion of overall aid and is extremely poorly targeted plus there is a total lack of coordination and accountability at the highest level." Mari Williams, Senior Policy Adviser for Water and Sanitation, Tearfund. http://www.wateraid.org/documents/plugin_documents/sanitation_and_water__why_we_need_a_global_framework_for_action.pdf

Water and Sanitation Program

• Performance Improvement Planning: Developing Effective Billing and Collection Practices, 2008.
  http://www.wsp.org/UserFiles/file/527200820356_SA_PIP2_May2008.pdf - Improving billing and collection activities has an immediate impact on the revenue streams of a service provider that can, in turn, encourage commercial and operational efficiencies for aiding the expansion and delivery of improved, reliable, and sustainable services. This note draws on national and international cases to explore what it takes to implement an effective billing and collection system. 
   
• Performance Improvement Planning: Designing an Effective Leakage Reduction and Management Program, 2008
  http://www.wsp.org/UserFiles/file/527200821433_SA_PIP3_May2008.pdf - Reducing nonrevenue water and maintaining it at target levels is important for any service provider looking to improve quality of service, financial soundness, and creditworthiness. In the longer term, the effectiveness of nonrevenue water programs is a function of managerial efficiency and institutional accountability.

• Health and Environment Managing the Linkages for Sustainable Development - A Tool Kit for Decision Makers [pdf 2.33Mb]
http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/9789241563727_eng.pdf

• UN-Water Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS).
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/glaas_2008_pilot_report.pdf - The Global Annual Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) is a UN-Water pilot initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO). UN-Water GLAAS constitutes a new approach to reporting on progress in the sanitation and drinking-water sectors that aims to strengthen evidence-based policy-making towards and beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).