Briefing Note 2 - Decentralisation and use of cost data in WASHCost project countries 2009

Poster FOSS4G 2010:

The main objective of this Master's thesis was to identify the parcipation of developing countries in the virtual water trade, analysing the current situation, risks and future opportunities.

This document  includes a description on the virtual water and hydrological footprint concepts as well as the methodology applied for their valorisation.There is also an attempt to identify the different aspects that influence the position of developing countries in the virtual water trade, using graphical analysis and lineal regressions.

Moreover this study pretends to improve the current international virtual water trade situtation by contributing with various recommendations for the developing countries.

PhD Poster - 26  March 2010

Abstract: In the framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) one of the targets is to halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. There is a lack of understanding about how and where the governmental and international cooperation efforts should be put in order to improve the access level to Water Supply and Sanitation services (WSS). The final objective of this PhD is to better understand the relationships and key variables involved in an improved WSS management.

Objective

Find spatial-temporal trends and patterns between environmental, governance and human pressure variables that affect the level of WSS and thus, the human development of a country.

Gender-disaggregated data on water and sanitation: Expert Group Meeting, United Nations Headquarters, New York 2–3 December 2008. (UNW-DPC knowledge publication series ; no. 1). Bonn, Germany, UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC),United Nations University. - 35 p.

This report presents the outcome of an Expert Group Meeting held in December 2008 to address the question of gender disaggregated data. The meeting was intended to support efforts to enhance gender equity in the water and sanitation sectors within the prevailing framework of the MDGs. The challenge and added value of the meeting was to explore ways to bridge the gap between conceptual or theoretical comprehensions of gender issues and everyday grassroots realities of differential access to and use of water and sanitation.

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Community-based development in water and sanitation projects : supporting community-driven development in developing member countries. Manila, Philippines, Asian Development Bank. - ix, 94 p. : 9 tab. - Bibliography: p. 29-33. - ISBN 978-971-561-858-8

The objective of this study is to undertake a comparative analysis among community-based development (CBD) and/or community-driven development (CDD) projects, and between CBD and/or CDD and non-CBD and non-CDD projects in water supply and sanitation (WSS) to determine differences and similarities in achieving outcomes and effects

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Water, sanitation and hygiene standards for schools in low-cost settings, Geneva, Switzerland, World Heath Organization. - ix, 41 p. – Bibliography: p.39-41. – Includes glossary. - ISBN 978-92-4-154779-6

Towards the realization of free basic sanitation : evaluation, review and recommendations. (WRC report ; no. TT 422/09). Pretoria, South Africa, Water Research Commission. - xviii, 91 p. : 16 fig., 8 tab. – 30 ref. - ISBN 978-1-77005-900-9

The aim of this study was to assess the experience of municipalities in the implementation of FBSan services and to develop economic and financial models for sustainable FBSan service. Based on the findings of the study recommendations were made for improving the delivery of FBSan services to poor.

http://www.wrc.org.za/Knowledge%20Hub%20Documents/Research%20Reports/TT%20422-09%20Water%20Policy.pdf

Este trabajo se desarrolla con el fin de proporcionar información y evaluar la viabilidad de los datos de Observación de la Tierra para la realización de un seguimiento de la evolución de la lámina de agua y del estado de la vegetación. En concreto, se propone caracterizar la evolución multitemporal anual e inter-anual de la lámina de agua, la vegetación acuática y la cobertura vegetal del Lago Chad, reconocer las zonas mayormente influenciadas y afectadas de la superficie del lago, e identificar el tipo de correlación que puede existir en torno a las dinámicas de estas variables para el caso de estudio seleccionado.

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