6. Clean water and sanitation

Articles overview

• Accelerating Farmer-led Irrigation Development

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  Theory and practice of the Smart Water for Agriculture in Kenya project In Africa, irrigation is back on the agricultural development agenda. Major initiatives stress its importance. The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, for instance, has extension of the area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systems as one of its four central […]

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  Building Resilient Local Health Systems in Sudan—Training the Trainers

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  KIT trained 39 staff members from Sudan’s Federal and State Health Ministries and the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office. The goal is preparing them for training 184 Locality Health Management Teams. In turn, the Locality Health Management Teams each provide health care for between 70,000 to 500,000 people. The Locality teams carry out the […]

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  Smart Water for Agriculture in Kenya

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  Water management in agriculture remains a serious challenge in Kenya. Around 90 percent of the country is arid or semi-arid land and it has highly variable rainfall patterns. A growing number of water-intensive economic and agricultural activities are also exacerbating these conditions. Download the new publication: Lessons on Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration for Farmer-Led Irrigation Development Investing in smart […]

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• HIV/AIDS and water, sanitation and hygiene

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  AIDS has become the most devastating global epidemic the world has ever faced. At the end of 2004, an estimated 40 million people globally were infected with HIV. More than five million people are newly infected each year and more than 6,000 lives are lost every day to the disease. The impact of HIV/AIDS is […]

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  SDG-Targeted Impact Framework for Impact Loan eXchange

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  KIT Royal Tropical Institute supports Loan eXchange (ILX) in developing the fund’s impact strategy.  ILX serves as an impact investment platform through which leading institutional investors – such as European pension funds – can co-invest with Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in high SDG-targeted impact. KIT works alongside ILX in the design of their impact strategy, […]

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  External Evaluation: UNICEF’s “Scaling Up Nutrition and Immunization” Project 2013 – 2016

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  Between 2013 and 2016 UNICEF worked to strengthen investment in Child Health Days (CHD) in 13 countries in sub-Saharan Africa by enhancing national ownership, scaling-up, and coverage through the “Scaling up Nutrition and Immunization” project – funded by Global Affairs Canada. KIT Royal Tropical Institute was contracted by UNICEF headquarters in New York to conduct an external […]

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