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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]]. The goal of Akvopedia is 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. In the coming months, two new portals called Emergency and Sustainability will be developed, Akvopedia is hosted and our most recent addition, the managed by [[Finance Portal|Finance Portalhttp://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation]], is now more fully updated and extended.<!--
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{|[[Image:financing sources fg 2.jpg|thumb|right|275px|'''Financing flows in the water and sanitation sector at national level.''' Source: [http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/glaas_report_2012/en/index.html GLAAS] 2012, page 79]] Akvopedia in partnership with the [http://www.irc.nl/ IRC] presents its totally refurbished <font size="34">The [[Finance Portal | Finance PortalSurvey Library]]is now live!</font>. <br><br>Our new Finance Portal is based on the three crucial steps The Survey library contains two "shelves" of financing a projectinformation: * Understand how to determine the costs of your project (from start to finish); * Learn about the different methods of financing or how to find the appropriate funders for your situation standards and regionsurveys. Standards assist you in gathering, who can finance these costs; * Monitor your costs over timeunderstanding, and using our many finance tools that are available or high quality data for decision making in development.<br>For exampleall things water, learn about <font size="2">'''the three "Ts": Taxessanitation, Transfers, and Tariffs'''</font>hygiene (WASH) -related. These Surveys are questionnaires that apply the methods used to finance projects. They are also referred to as [[Financing Sources - Introduction| Financing Sources]]standards.
Some of 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, drinking water, and others.
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* '''New guide''': [[Handbook on Data Collection]]. The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality data is collected and maximum impact is achieved. The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and implementing a data collection project, focusing on the development sector and including extra resources for more information.
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* '''Guide''': [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a major public health concern and a leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for women and girls. For all these reasons, sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a basic human right.
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* '''Featured article''': The [[Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]] is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation (in emerging markets) - from financial inclusion to private funding and from micro insurance to climate financing. The papers are very close to daily practices, written purely on the basis of experience, insights and materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and Kenya.
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| * '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE:''' [[LifeskillsImage:_Football_for_Waternational flags.png|<font size="2">'''Lifeskills: Football for Water'''</font>right|250px|]]We are proud to announce our Akvopedia [[Translations]]. The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water ! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and sanitation facilities at 1Tamil),100 schools in KenyaKorean, Chinese, Indonesian, Ghana and Mozambique. FurthermoreJapanese, with many more than 700,000 school children will be taught life skills related to hand washing, clean drinking water and improved sanitation through football and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches)come. * '''SANITATION FIRST!!''' 2See the upper right of each English page for the different language flags.6 billion people in the world don't Not all pages have access to a toiletbeen translated yet. Our most popular translations are: <br>* The reality of what this means may be hard for us lucky toilet-owners to imagine, so here's an entire [[httpWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Hindi:[[वाटर पोर्टल //youtu.be/P6wkjWxEbKY animationवर्षाजल संचयन]] to help.<br>* '''Check out this new helpful The entire [[Sustainable_sanitation_training_materialWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |Sustainable Sanitation SourcebookRainwater harvesting]]''' section in the training of professionals for the sanitation and water sector, browse or download the set of animated PowerPointsFrench: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]]. There are 500 slides and 600 pages worth of valuable sanitation information!!<br>* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: Most of the [[Biogas-fueled_pumpWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |Biogas-fueled pumpRainwater harvesting]]''' - Using biogas for pumps section in irrigation is gaining in popularity in India and elsewhere, as the savings in petroleum fuel prices are greatSpanish: [[Captación de Agua de Lluvia]]. A diesel pump can also be converted into a bio-gas pump used for pumping water. The cheapest way to get biogas, once a pump is obtained, is to build a biomass digester, which means biomass must be collected, cultivated, or found.
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|'''Share your news and knowledge''' on water and sanitation by contributing articles to the Akvopedia. We've used the same conventions as the well-known online resource Wikipedia, so adding and editing articles is quick and easy to learn. This [[Editing an Akvopedia page | graphical guide]] will get you started; more detailed information about editing wiki articles is available in the help pages: [[Help:Contents]]
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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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