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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]]. We strive 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, including some in French and Spanish. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by [http://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation].

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|-!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Decision & Assessment Tools</h2>|-|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=decisions portal box.png|alt=Decision & Assessment Tools|width=140px|link=Decision & Assessment Tools}}</div> [[Decision & Assessment Tools|Decision & Assessment Tools]] contain several tools, assessments, or kits that aid in the implementation of water and sanitation projects in an easier way.!|-!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Food & Nutrition Security Portal</h2>|-|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=Food-security-box.png|alt=Food & Nutrition Security Portal|width=140px|link=Food & Nutrition Security Portal}}</div> [[Food & Nutrition Security Portal|Food & Nutrition Security Portal]] helps people improve their access to nutritional, quality food, supporting the right to food, availability and the best utilization of food.!|-!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Sustainable Oil Palm Farming</h2>|-|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=SNV logo.png|alt=Sustainable Oil Palm Farming|width=140px|link=Sustainable Oil Palm Farming}}</div> [[Sustainable Oil Palm Farming | Sustainable Oil Palm Farming]] helps oil palm smallholders to increase the productivity of their plantations and income in a sustainable way.

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{||<font size="34">'''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: The [[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)Survey Library]]'''is now live!</font><br>The Survey library contains two "shelves" of information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you in gathering, understanding, and using high quality data for decision making in all things water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) -related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the 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.|[[Image:Survey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org]]|}{|!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">More news</h2>|-|[[Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)Image:Tablet-Use-demo.jpg|right|200px|IWRMlink=Handbook on Data Collection]]* '''New guide''': [[Handbook on Data Collection]] is based . The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on the understanding that water resources are an integral component of the ecosystem, how best to develop a natural resource, 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 social data collection project, focusing on the development sector and economic goodincluding extra resources for more information. |-|[[Image: IWRM photoWHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|200px|link=http://akvopediaapps.who.orgint/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/wiki274939/Integrated_Water_Resources_Management_(IWRM)9789241514705-eng.pdf]]Managers* '''Guide''': [http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, whether in the government or private sectors2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, have from preventing infection to make difficult decisions on water allocation. More improving and maintaining mental and more they have to apportion diminishing supplies between eversocial well-increasing demands. Drivers such as demographic and climatic changes further increase the stress on water resourcesbeing. The traditional fragmented approach is no longer viable lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a major public health concern and a more holistic approach leading cause of disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation also contributes to water management is essentialseveral neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. This Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is the rationale also a major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach women and girls. For all these reasons, sanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has now been accepted internationally recognized as the way forward for efficient, equitable and sustainable development and management of the world's limited water resources and for coping with conflicting demandsa basic human right.

|[[Image:financing papers2.png|right|200px|link=Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''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.|-<!-------Translated Pages-------->!<h2 style="margin:0; font-size:130%; text-align:left; color:#535353; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">More newsTranslated pages</h2>

| [[Image:latrinenational flags.png|right|100px250px|link=Communal Latrines]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: We are proud to announce our Akvopedia [[Communal Latrines|<font size="2">Communal Latrines</font>Translations]]''' - This article covers the topic of communal latrinesprogram! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, also called institutional or school latrines. Much of the material in this article is based on project successes in the Sudanwith many more to come. This is a portion of See the document upper right of Technical Guidelines, outlining best practices each English page for the development of the 14 types of water supply and sanitation facilities in the Sudandifferent language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet. Several of them Our most popular translations are communal (multi-user) latrines.: <br>* The entire [[File:sust portal icon.pngWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |right|100px|link=Sustainability PortalRainwater harvesting]]* '''NEW PORTALsection in Hindi:''' [[Sustainability Portal|<font size="2">'''Sustainability Portal'''<वाटर पोर्टल /font>वर्षाजल संचयन]] - [http://www.irc.nl/ IRC] and Akvopedia have teamed up to produce an all new <br>* The entire [[Sustainability Water Portal/ Rainwater Harvesting |Sustainability PortalRainwater harvesting]] based on the Dutch WASH Alliance [httpsection in French://www.washalliance.nl/fiets-strategy/ F.I.E.T.S. principles] of financial, institutional, environmental, technological, and social sustainability. Included are the 10-part [[Sustainability Frameworks and Tools|Triple-S building blocksLa collecte des eaux de pluie]] from IRC and other sustainability frameworks. With over 50 new article pages and many more sustainability tools, slideshows, and videos... water and sanitation project members can now think about their WASH system's longevity with confidence.<br>* Most of the [[Image:comm savings sm.pngWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting |right|100px|link=Community Based SavingsRainwater harvesting]]* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGEsection in Spanish:''' [[Community Based Savings|<font size="2">'''Community Based Savings'''</font>Captación de Agua de Lluvia]] - Community-based saving is a microfinance model that is considered to be an effective method for financing projects in sustainable sanitation and water management. This is an effective method for saving a small amount of money by organising or joining a saving group of up to 25 people. These people might be colleagues, friends or neighbours coming from the same community. The method is very simple and easy to implement. 

|[[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!