The World's Toilet Crisis / Washington DC screening / October 28

For those of you in Washington DC, please plan to join us for an important screening of The World's Toilet Crisis.

Event date: October 28, 2010 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm

Here is the event flyer.

An estimated 40% of the world's population has no access to toilets and defecate anywhere they can. This documentary investigates how developing countries are trying to solve an epidemic that few people want to talk about--the world's toilet crisis.

Join the Pulitzer Center, AED, PATH, and Water Advocates for a screening of the film followed by a panel discussion with Lisa Biagiotti, producer of the film and multimedia journalist for PBS and Current TV, Peter Sawyer from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Janie Hayes from PATH.

Thursday, October 28, 7pm
"Bathroom Pass" Exhibit at AED IDEA: EXCHANGE
1875 Connecticut Ave, NW (corner of T St) Washington, DC

Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the screening.

Please RSVP to WinSPartnership@gmail.com.

http://pulitzercenter.org/event/screening-worlds-toilet-crisis-aed-washington-dc

USAID Webinar on Access and Behavioral Outcome Indicators for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

I watched/listened to the previous webinar in this series. Certainly worth your time if you are a water/sanitation practitioner or thinking about becoming one...
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The USAID Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) is pleased to share a new publication, Access and Behavioral Outcome Indicators for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene.

HIP developed this publication for USAID and other organizations to measure progress for hand washing, household water treatment and storage, and sanitation activities and provide guidance to implementers of WASH programs on what indicators to use to measure their programs’ achievements. This new document is available on HIP's website at: http://www.hip.watsan.net/page/4148.

You are also invited to participate in a webinar about this new publication on March 2, 2010, at 10 am Eastern Standard Time (Washington, DC). Orlando Hernandez, HIP's monitoring and evaluation specialist, will discuss this new publication and how program managers can apply these indicators to their WASH programs.

To register for this webinar, go to:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/862843200

If you are unable to join us for this event, a recorded version of the webinar will be available on HIP's website at http://www.hip.watsan.net/page/4105

Questions? Contact Patricia Mantey, USAID Hygiene Improvement Project, 202-884-8960, pmantey (AT) aed.org

Please forward this information to other colleagues who may be interested in this topic.

USAID / WASH Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease

Handy training tool on WASH/Diarrheal Disease from USAID:

WASH Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease

The "Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Improvement Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease," provides information for organizations worldwide that seek to add WASH activities to their current programs or to start a diarrhea reduction program. It is intended to support the training of local outreach workers and their work in communities to promote improved WASH practices to reduce diarrhea. The Training Package consists of three separate parts: (1) a step-by-step "Guide for Training Outreach Workers," (2) an "Outreach Worker’s Handbook" for community outreach workers to use during and after training, and (3) a "Collection of Resource Materials" to use as a source for visual aids.

--To request a free copy of the WASH Training Package on CD, please send an email to hip (at) aed (dot) org.

You can also listen to a recorded webinar here:
 
Webinar on WASH Improvement Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease
 
Recording of HIP's webinar on the "WASH Improvement Training Package for the Prevention of Diarrheal Disease," held January 28, 2010. Presented by Elizabeth Younger, HIP senior behavior change advisor.