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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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|<font size="4">The [http://akvopedia.org/wiki/Financing_Sanitation,_Paper_Series_I-4 The Financing Sanitation Paper Series[Survey Library]] is now onlinelive!</font><br><br>A culmination The Survey library contains two "shelves" of several years information: standards and surveys. Standards assist you in the gathering, understanding, and using high quality data for decision makingin all things water, ''The Financing Sanitation Paper Series'' is a unique collection of six articles about different aspects of sustainable financing of sanitation , hygiene (in emerging marketsWASH) - from financial inclusion to private funding related. Surveys are questionnaires that apply the standards. Some of the supporting organizations who've created the standards are WHO, UNICEF, and from micro insurance to climate financingSIASAR. There are still two papers yet to be publishedFor instance, but we now have the first four papers available Joint Monitoring Program (JMP) is a popular standard for downloadsanitation, drinking water, and others.|[[Image:financing papers2Survey_library_promo.pngjpg|thumb|right|200px400px|link=Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4Survey Library|Photo: Care.org]]

|[[Image:Harvested_oil_palm_fruit_bunchesTablet-Use-demo.jpg|right|100px200px|link=Sustainable Oil Palm FarmingHandbook on Data Collection]]* '''New sectionguide''': [[Sustainable Oil Palm FarmingHandbook on Data Collection]]. Sustainable intensification in smallholder oil palm plantations focuses The AfriAlliance Handbook provides guidance on achieving good yields and profits, while maintaining soil fertility, minimising erosion, maintaining water how best to develop a data collection project to ensure high quality, controlling pests, diseases data is collected and weeds through integrated pest management maximum impact is achieved. The Handbook covers vital elements to consider when designing and using agrochemicals safely implementing a data collection project, focusing on the development sector and in the smallest possible amountsincluding extra resources for more information.

|[[Image:rwh_hindiWHO_Guidelines_2018.png|right|60px200px|link=वाटर पोर्टल http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/ वर्षाजल संचयनhandle/10665/274939/9789241514705-eng.pdf]]* '''New sectionGuide''': [[वाटर पोर्टल http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/274939/ वर्षाजल संचयन | Hindi Rainwater Harvesting]9789241514705-eng.pdf WHO: Guidelines on Health and Sanitation, 2018]. We now have our entire rainwater harvesting section translated into Hindi! This comprises 43 pages Safe sanitation is essential for health, from preventing infection to improving and maintaining mental and social well-being. The lack of water 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 solutions that include capturing rainwater whether from the airalso contributes to several neglected tropical diseases, surface or groundwateras well as broader adverse outcomes such as under-nutrition. We are going Lack of access to continue to create Hindi translations suitable sanitation facilities is also a major cause of risks and anxiety, especially for our top 100 pageswomen and girls. For all these reasons, so check back soon for more Hindi pagessanitation that prevents disease and ensures privacy and dignity has been recognized as a basic human right.

|[[Image:india water portal newsfinancing papers2.png|right|100px200px|link=News Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I- India4]]* '''New portalFeatured article''': In cooperation with The [http://www.indiawaterportal.org/ India Water Portal[Financing Sanitation, Paper Series I-4]], we now have 165 new pages all is a unique collection of six articles about news from India! The articles cover popular topics different aspects of sustainable financing of water and sanitation (WASHin emerging markets) plus many more, including food security, - from financial inclusion to private funding and from micro insurance to climate changefinancing. The papers are very close to daily practices, and emergency WASH. This is written purely on the beginning basis of our new News section that will soon include Africaexperience, Latin America insights and more of Asiamaterials developed within sanitation programmes in India and Kenya.

|[[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 Jon at winonajon[[Image:at symbol.jpg|12px]]akvo.org. Thank you for visiting!