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February 25, 2012 at 8:57 pm Comments (0)
February 25, 2012 at 8:57 pm Comments (0)
KnowledgePoint: cross-organisational enquiry handling for life-saving expertise across the globe
KnowledgePoint: cross-organisational enquiry handling for life-saving expertise across the globe
Organisation:
Partners:
Location:
Challenge(s) addressed:
- Existing and future high demand for reliable and timely expertise in field operations from those who need critical, technical advice or information
- Duplication and inefficiency in having isolated support services
Innovation Factor: inventing shared processes and developing a supporting ICT platform, allowing local stakeholders and international organisations to pool technical expertise, delivering and tracking life-saving information responses.
Added Value: increasing the range of expertise open to enquirers, raising peak direct support capacity during emergency response, improving links to and utilisation of existing knowledge bases, providing a range of data on enquiry levels and type.
Innovation Phases Description:
- Recognition: Opportunity identified and systematically documented;
- Invention: Collate stakeholders’ requirements to invent a common process and develop prototype for participatory review.
Key Deliverables / Impact: Deliverables for this phase include:
- To work with partners to invent and test a shared organisational process that enables technical support services to become more integrated, more collaborative and more reciprocal between stakeholders
- To identify technologies to support this process, and to create a proof-of-concept prototype
Source http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/projects/small-grants/knowledgepoint
February 20, 2012 at 3:02 am Comments (0)
Fansasia] The 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting- 6th World water Forum-2012
PrepCom II a success!
The 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepComII), February 2-3, 2012 – UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
On 2-3 February at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, almost 300 delegates from around 110 national governments met to discuss a draft text for the Ministerial Process of the 6th World Water Forum. The 2nd Preparatory Committee Meeting (PrepCom) arrived at a consensus for the document that aims to become the Ministerial Declaration at the Ministerial Conference on 13 March 2012. This successful meeting paves a path towards a fruitful Ministerial Conference where up to 140 national governments are expected.
The PrepCom was opened by H.E. Henri de Raincourt, the Minister in charge of Cooperation at the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs along with Mrs. Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO and Mr. Benedito Braga, the President of the International Forum Committee (IFC).
The focus of the discussion covered a wide variety of topics from transboundary waters to health and hygiene to water-related disasters. In the end, the participants of the meeting arrived at a consensus on the draft ministerial text that will be sent to the Ministerial Conference. The major priorities to emerge, per the text, are to accelerate the implementation of human right obligations relating to access to safe drinking water and sanitation, promoting policy coherence in the inter-linkages between water, energy and food security and to incorporate water in all its economic, social and environmental dimensions in a framework of governance, financing and cooperation.
More about the Political Process
Coordinator :
J.newton@worldwaterforum6.org
February 9, 2012 at 2:02 pm Comments (0)
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Newsletter
Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
Newsletter N° 149 / 1 February 2012
JMP thematic report 2011 published
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation published its 2011 thematic report Drinking Water: Equity, safety and sustainability. Based on the 2008 datasets, the report investigates access to and use of drinking-water in greater detail than is possible in the regular JMP progress reports, and includes increased disaggregation of water service levels and analyses of trends across countries and regions. Download from www.wssinfo.org
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HWTS News
The WHO/UNICEF/UNC International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage will organize a HWTS session at the 6th World Water Forum on 14 March 14:30-16:30. The session will focus on the international target of having, by 2015, 30 additional countries with national policies regarding household water treatment and safe storage. Policy options will be linked to proven solutions, effective implementation and regulation. HTWS Network members attending the WWF6 are asked to contact Maggie Montgomery (montgomerym@who.int) who coordinates the HWTS target session.
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More HWTS News
HWTS Network members working closely with government counterparts are encouraged to assist their counterparts in completing the online HWTS survey available in English, French and Spanish. http://www.who.int/household_water/advocacy/en/
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WASA Chief Says Rawalpindi Water to be tested for Quality
The water being provided to Rawalpindi will be tested for its quality, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) said on Tuesday.
Wasa Managing Director (MD) Raja Shaukat Mehmood said the fresh survey is needed to check if clean water is being supplied to the city.
The MD directed the water quality manager to collect samples from head tanks around the city for laboratory testing. Following the lab tests, Wasa teams will start plugging any leaks in the pipelines.
The recently appointed MD said Rawalpindi has three major sources of water: Rawal Dam, Khanpur Dam, and 290 tube wells spread across the city.
The water is supplied after treatment at Rawal Dam and Sangjani treatment plants in accordance with WHO standards, he added.
In a recent meeting, Wasa authorities said that that most tube wells, especially those installed on Nullah Lai’s banks, were equipped with hypo-chlorinators to purify water.
The MD said that a well-equipped water testing laboratory was installed at the Rawal Lake Filtration Plant under the supervision of a qualified manager. Mehmood was briefed on complaints of muddy water being supplied in Aria Mohallah, which was later rectified.
The Wasa chief also appealed to consumers to clean underground and overhead tanks in their houses, for which Wasa will provide free manpower to consumers upon request, the press release said.
Credits: The Express Tribune, February 1st, 2012.
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