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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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|<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.
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|<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.
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{|[[Image:internal_space1.png|right|250px|link=Accessible WASH Design]]<font size="4">New pages: Accessible WASH DesignThe [[Survey Library]] is now live!</font><br><br>Thanks to [httpThe Survey library contains two "shelves" of information://www.wateraid.org/us WaterAid] standards and [http://wedcsurveys.lboro.ac.uk/index.html WEDC]Standards assist you in gathering, understanding, we have put their entire water and sanitation disability document online. Check out our new pages!<br>The [[Accessible WASH Design]] pages are useful using high quality data for disabled, elderly, the sickdecision making in all things water, and children - all those who need special help with accessing and using sanitation facilities. It is made for use by staff, working directly with communities hygiene (WASH) - erelated.gSurveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. health workers and community volunteers working with disabled and older people and their families in rural areas Some of sub-Saharan Africathe supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and beyondSIASAR. Most of For instance, the ideas are suitable Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a popular standard for disabled and older peoplesanitation, but are not only for them. As we get olderdrinking water, many of us find it increasingly difficult to squat and balance, or we might be injured or sickothers.<br><br>Download the full document or by chapter, |[[httpImage://akvopediaSurvey_library_promo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|link=Survey Library|Photo: Care.org/wiki/Accessible_WASH_Design_-_Downloads here].]<br>|}{|-
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|[[Image:sustainable sanitationWHO_Guidelines_2018.png|100pxright|right200px|Source: [link=http://wwwapps.pseauwho.orgint/iris/bitstream/handle/outils10665/biblio274939/index9789241514705-eng.php?vue_pgm_o_tout=1&tri1=titre&pgmpseau_id=37&l=fr&langue=en&operateur_titre_contenant=%2B&motclef%5B%5D=129&vuepp=3&autosubmit=1 www.pseau.org]pdf]]* '''70 Sustainable Sanitation Documents from Guide''': [http://pseauapps.org Pseauwho.org] '''int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: We now have links in our [[Sustainability Portal]Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. Safe sanitation is essential for health, column 5 (Social Sustainability) for 70 new documents in both French from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and Englishsocial well-being. These colorfully illustrate The lack of safe sanitation contributes to diarrhea, a variety major public health concern and a leading cause of handwashing disease and death among children under five years in low- and middle- income countries; poor sanitation methods that include topics also contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, as well as broader adverse outcomes such as schools under-nutrition. Lack of access to suitable sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and gender. Great anxiety, especially for teaching kids! All links go to the [http://www.pseau.org/outils/biblio/index.php?vue_pgm_o_tout=1&tri1=titre&pgmpseau_id=37&l=fr&langue=en&operateur_titre_contenant=%2B&motclef%5B%5D=129&vuepp=3&autosubmit=1 pseauwomen and girls.org] site where you can search by topicFor all these reasons, country, or target audiencesanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a basic human right.
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|[[Image:Rainwater_harvesting_mapfinancing papers2.png|right|100px200px|link=http://akvopedia.org/wiki/Rainwater_Harvesting_GIS_MapFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]* '''NEW RWH TOOLS: [[Rainwater Harvesting GIS Map | Make a personalized GIS rainwater harvesting map]]Featured article''' - We have teamed up with [http://www.rainfoundation.org/ RAIN] to create three new rainwater harvesting (RWH) tools in Akvopedia. One of these is called the The [[Rainwater Harvesting GIS MapFinancing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]]. You can follow three steps to create is a RWH map to see optimal places unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of rainwater collection sanitation (in your areaemerging markets) - from financial inclusion to private funding and from micro insurance to climate financing. The other toolspapers are very close to daily practices, written purely on the basis of experience, [[Rain is Gain Tool]] insights and [[WASH Environmental Sustainability Assessment]], help you to both assess your water needs/supply materials developed within sanitation programmes in India and make sure your WASH project is environmentally sustainable, respectivelyKenya.
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|[[Image:national flags.png|right|200px250px|]]We are proud to announce our new Akvopedia [[Translations]] program! We have started our language program with translators for French, Spanish, 3 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>* '''New TranslationThe entire [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Hindi:''' Our [[Multiple Use Services (MUS)वाटर पोर्टल / वर्षाजल संचयन]] page is in English, French, Spanish, Malayalam, Korean, and Chinese. <br>* '''New Translation:''' Our The entire [[Surface water - generalWater Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] page is now section in English, French, Spanish, and Malayalam: [[La collecte des eaux de pluie]].<br>* '''New TranslationMost of the [[Water Portal / Rainwater Harvesting | Rainwater harvesting]] section in Spanish:''' Our [[Groundwater recharge - generalCaptación de Agua de Lluvia]] page is now in English and French with more coming soon.
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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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