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Welcome to Akvopedia, the open water and sanitation resource that [[How to contribute|anyone can edit]]. The goal of Akvopedia is to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on smart and affordable technical solutions and effective approaches. Akvopedia now contains [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English. In the coming months, two new portals called Emergency and Sustainability will be developed, and our most recent addition, the [[Finance Portal|Finance Portal]], is now more fully updated and extended. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by [http://akvo.org/ Akvo Foundation].
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Welcome to Akvopedia, a free, open-sourced water, sanitation & hygiene resource (in addition to food security knowledge) that [[How to contribute|anyone can edit]]. Here you will find smart and affordable technologies and approaches in 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.
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|<div class="floatleft" align=left >{{Icon|file=Sanitation4icons.png|alt=Sanitation Portal|width=140px|link=Sanitation Portal}}</div> The [[ Sanitation Portal |Sanitation Portal]] contains information on toilets, collection, transportation, treatment, use of products, hygiene, and training materials.
 
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|<font size="4">The [[Survey Library]] is now live!</font><br>
 
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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.
Akvopedia in partnership with the [http://www.irc.nl/ IRC] presents its totally refurbished <font size="3">[[Finance Portal | Finance Portal]]</font>.
 
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Our new Finance Portal is based on the three crucial steps of financing a project:  
 
 
 
* 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 and region, who can finance these costs;
 
 
 
* Monitor your costs over time, using our many finance tools that are available or in development.
 
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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:''' [[Lifeskills:_Football_for_Water|<font size="2">'''Lifeskills: Football for Water'''</font>]]. The main goal of the program is to improve drinking water and sanitation facilities at 1,100 schools in Kenya, Ghana and Mozambique. Furthermore, 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).
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We are proud to announce our Akvopedia [[Translations]] program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, with many more to come. See the upper right of each English page for the different language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet. Our most popular translations are: <br>
 
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* The entire [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Hindi: [[वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]]. <br>
* '''SANITATION FIRST!!''' 2.6 billion people in the world don't have access to a toilet. The reality of what this means may be hard for us lucky toilet-owners to imagine, so here's an [http://youtu.be/P6wkjWxEbKY animation] to help.
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* The entire [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in French: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>
 
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* Most of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Spanish: [[Captación de Agua de Lluvia]].
* '''Check out this new helpful [[Sustainable_sanitation_training_material|Sustainable Sanitation Sourcebook]]''' in the training of professionals for the sanitation and water sector, browse or download the set of animated PowerPoints. There are 500 slides and 600 pages worth of valuable sanitation information!!
 
 
 
* '''NEW ARTICLE PAGE: [[Biogas-fueled_pump|Biogas-fueled pump]]''' - Using biogas for pumps in irrigation is gaining in popularity in India and elsewhere, as the savings in petroleum fuel prices are great. 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]]
 
'''Mailing list''' -  Participate in the [http://mailgate.greenocean.org:8100/Lists/akvopedia.core/List.html?&Sort=4&SDir=0&Limit=20&Language= Akvopedia mailing list]. The Akvopedia mailing list is open to anyone who wants to discuss or follow the content work we are doing on the Akvopedia. [http://www.akvo.org/web/contact_us Contact us] to be added to the list.
 
 
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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 editorial services and always appreciates suggestions and links to expand our WASH wiki.  Please contact our editor Winona Azure at winona[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!
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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 Jon at jon[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!
 
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Latest revision as of 18:58, 2 March 2021

Welcome, bienvenue and bienvenido to Akvopedia!

Welcome to Akvopedia, a free, open-sourced water, sanitation & hygiene resource (in addition to food security knowledge) that anyone can edit. Here you will find smart and affordable technologies and approaches in 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 2,211 articles primarily in English. Akvopedia is hosted and managed by Akvo Foundation.

Water Portal

Water Portal
The Water Portal contains information on water collection, pumping and transportation, storage, treatment, and use of water.

Sanitation Portal

Sanitation Portal
The Sanitation Portal contains information on toilets, collection, transportation, treatment, use of products, hygiene, and training materials.

Finance Portal

Finance Portal
The Finance Portal contains information on the costs needed to finance, how to finance these costs, and how to monitor finance.

Sustainability Portal

Sustainability Portal
The Sustainability Portal contains information on numerous sustainability frameworks, tools, and methods, using the F.I.E.T.S approach.

Decision & Assessment Tools

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.

Food & Nutrition Security Portal

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.

Sustainable Oil Palm Farming

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.

What's happening now

The Survey Library is now live!

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.

Photo: Care.org

More news

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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: 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.

Translated pages

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We are proud to announce our Akvopedia Translations program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, three Indian languages (Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil), Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, and Japanese, with many more to come. See the upper right of each English page for the different language flags. Not all pages have been translated yet. Our most popular translations are:

Contributing to Akvopedia

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 graphical guide will get you started; more detailed information about editing wiki articles is available in the help pages: Help:Contents

Editorial support

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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 Jon at jonAt symbol.jpgakvo.org. Thank you for visiting!