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|[[Image:football4waterfinancing sources fg 2.jpg|thumb|right|300px275px|link='''Financing flows in the water and sanitation sector at national level.''' Source: [http://www.akvowho.orgint/wikiwater_sanitation_health/publications/glaas_report_2012/en/index.php/Lifeskills:_Football_for_Waterhtml GLAAS] 2012, page 79]] Akvopedia in partnership with the [[Lifeskillshttp:_Football_for_Water|//www.irc.nl/ IRC] presents its totally refurbished <font size="34">[[Finance Portal | '''Lifeskills: Football for WaterFinance Portal''']]</font>]]. <br><br> 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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Read more about Akvo's involvement in our blog<br>Our new Finance Portal is based on the three crucial steps of financing a project: [http://www.akvo.org/blog/?p=4923 Football becomes a bridge to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene]
* 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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The partnership will provide 750For example,000 children in Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique with a healthy environment and at learn about <font size="3">'''the same time awareness on personal hygiene will be raised. Drinking water and sanitation facilities will be installed through (local partners of) e.g. Unicef, Simavi and Vitens Evides International. The KNVBthree "Ts"'''</font>: Taxes, with local partnersTransfers, will educate WorldCoaches in order to establish behavioral change and will set up school football competitionsTariffs. Specifically for this program, a new Life Skills Manual was developed for These are the subjects in the field of WASH by the University of Utrechtmethods used to finance projects. The program will run from April 2012 until March 2016They are also referred to as [[Financing Sources - Introduction| Financing Sources]].
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* '''Akvopedia is proud to present its totally refurbished NEW ARTICLE PAGE:''' [[Finance Portal Lifeskills:_Football_for_Water| Finance Portal]]!<font size="2">'''Lifeskills: Football for Water''' Now you can not only research funding opportunities</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, but understand how to determine the costs of your projectmore than 700, how 000 school children will be taught life skills related to find the appropriate funders who can finance these costshand washing, clean drinking water and then monitor the costs over time using our many finance tools available or in developmentimproved sanitation through football and life skills coaches (WorldCoaches).
* '''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.