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Improving Water and Sanitation Conditions for Slum Dwellers in Kenya

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Voices & Views

In Kenya, nearly 60% of Nairobi's population live in slums. In the Mukuru slum, in the East of Nairobi, an EU funded project is helping to improve the health status of residents through the provision of water and sanitation...

Africa
Kenya
Health
Private Sector
Trade & Economic Integration
+2
Urban Development
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Building Ownership to Deliver Sustainable Water Aid

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Voices & Views

When the children of Inyima in southeast Nigeria began to fall sick and die, villagers were horrified to learn that their own poor hygiene practices had contaminated the community’s drinking water, causing a deadly diarrhoea...

Africa
Nigeria
Agriculture & Rural Development
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
+6
Civil Society
Fisheries
Health
Knowledge Management
Learning
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

The Challenge of Being ‘Backbone-minded’

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Voices & Views

How can we bring the principles of the Backbone Strategy on Technical Cooperation Reform into supporting infrastructure programmes? How can we be Backbone-minded? These were the themes of a recent internal session at EuropeAid...

Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Knowledge Management
+3
Learning
Transport & Infrastructure
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Somalia: Making Gains in a Fragile Environment

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Voices & Views

For almost two decades, a collapsed government and battling warlords have made Somalia a byword for anarchy.

Africa
Somalia
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Education
+4
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Knowledge Management
Learning
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene