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Revision as of 04:31, 11 February 2014 by Winona (talk | contribs)

Revision as of 04:31, 11 February 2014 by Winona (talk | contribs)

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Welcome, bienvenue and bienvenido to Akvopedia!

The open water and sanitation resource that anyone can edit. We strive to improve water and sanitation projects through knowledge exchange on smart and affordable technical solutions and effective approaches. Akvopedia now contains 2,211 articles primarily in English, including some in French and Spanish. We are hosted and managed by Akvo Foundation.

Water Portal

Water Portal
The Water Portal : water collection, pumping and transport, storage, treatment, and productive use.

Sanitation Portal

Sanitation Portal
The Sanitation Portal : toilets, waste collection & use, transport, treatment, hygiene, and training.

Finance Portal

Finance Portal
The Finance Portal : costs needed to finance, how to finance these costs, and monitoring finance.

Sustainability PortalNEW!

Approaches Portal
The Sustainability Portal : sustainability frameworks, tools and methods, uses F.I.E.T.S approach.

What's happening now

Look, our new Sustainability Portal!
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Our all-new Sustainability Portal is based on the Dutch WASH Alliance F.I.E.T.S. principles of financial, institutional, environmental, technological, and social sustainability. Included are the 10-part Triple-S building blocks from IRC and other sustainability frameworks.

More than 50 new article pages and sustainability tools, slideshows, and videos. Water and sanitation projects can now plan for longevity with confidence.

More news

* NEW ARTICLE PAGE: Community Based Savings - Community-based saving is a microfinance model that is an effective method for financing projects in sustainable sanitation and water management. Save a small amount of money and organise or join a saving group of up to 25 people, such as colleagues, friends or neighbours coming from the same community. Simple method; easy to implement.
* NEW ARTICLE PAGE: Gender Mainstreaming - Gender mainstreaming assesses the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels. It makes women’s and men’s concerns and experiences part of the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and programmes in political, economic and societal areas. Women and men benefit equally (gender equality) and inequality is not perpetuated.

Contributing to Akvopedia

Share your news and knowledge on water and sanitation by contributing articles to the Akvopedia. We're technically just like 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 editorial services and always appreciates suggestions and links to expand our WASH wiki. Please contact our editor Winona Azure at winonaAt symbol.jpgakvo.org. Thank you for visiting!