Category Archives: Consortium events

Introducing and scaling up sustainable water and sanitation technologies

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Carmen da Silva Wells

On December 11th IRC organised a webinar called ‘Introducing and scaling up sustainable water and sanitation technologies’. It focused on the current status of two tools developed by the WASHTech project, and introduced webinar participants to the new website providing … Continue reading →

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December 11, 2013 Webinar – Introducing and scaling up sustainable water and sanitation technologies

Posted on December 2, 2013 by dietvorst

The WASHTech Consortium is organising a webinar to introduce the WASHTech’s tools and launch the online resource base Wednesday 11 December, 12.30-13.30 pm CET Register here Background This webinar introduces two new tools that will help to select water, sanitation and … Continue reading →

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New website gives the sector access to TAF

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Carmen da Silva Wells

WASHTech is proud to present a new website that will make all WASHTech tools and publications available to sector actors and provide a platform for sharing experience on using the tools. washtechnologies.net provides access to the TAF manual, questionnaires and background material. … Continue reading →

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WashTech side event at UNC Water & Health conference 2013

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Carmen da Silva Wells

Over 750 million and 1 billion people lack access to improved water sources and adequate sanitation, respectively. There have been numerous efforts to reduce this number by scaling up WaSH technologies; however, these scale-up approaches have not always been successful. … Continue reading →

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Learn about the Technology Applicability Framework at Stockholm World Water Week

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Carmen da Silva Wells

On Wednesday, September 4th, Dr Alison Parker from Cranfield University will represent WASHTech at the ‘Ideas Market place’ at World Water Week 2013 in  Stockholm, Sweden. At 1.40 PM, she will give a short talk about the Technology Applicability Framework and how WASHTech … Continue reading →

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1st WASHTech webinar attracts 25 participants and lots of questions

Posted on July 2, 2013 by dietvorst

How were community members engaged in the piloting of the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) for the rope pump in Ghana? This was one of the questions asked during the Webinar “Investing in effective technologies with the Technology Applicability Framework”, which … Continue reading →

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TAF stands out at Regional HWTS workshop exhibition

Posted on June 21, 2013 by awumbei

From 6-8 May, the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) stood out as the Water Sanitation and Hygiene Technologies (WASHTech) Ghana project team participated in a market place exhibition at the West Africa Regional Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) Workshop … Continue reading →

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Webinar: investing in effective technologies with the Technology Applicability Framework

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Carmen da Silva Wells

Investing in the right technologies in a given context is an important step towards improving sustainability of WASH  services. The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) responds to an identified need for a tool to help decision makers assess if a water or sanitation … Continue reading →

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WASHTech at the IRC symposium in Addis Ababa

Posted on April 26, 2013 by dietvorst

With two presentations and a pre-launch side event, WASHTech was well represented at the IRC Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery symposium. The symposium and side events took place from 9-12 April 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Introducing the TAF André … Continue reading →

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Sustainable services: WASHTech pre-launch at IRC symposium

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Carmen da Silva Wells

WASHTech will be organising two activities during the Symposium on Monitoring Sustainable WASH service delivery in Addis Ababa (April 2013). The Symposium is organised by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre and hosted by the Ministry of Water and Energy, and the Ministry of … Continue reading →

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