FW: WSSCC News - July 2014

July 2014 New Resources: India: Managing Menstrual Hygiene (new video from WSSCC and United Nations TV, 5 minutes) Many Hands: Harmonising Capacity, Knowledge and Documentation in Sanitation and Hygiene Advocacy, communications and monitoring of WASH commitments - WSSCC Benin Workshop Report Africa Water Week Business Forum Final Report 2014 Sanitation and Water for All Commitments WSSCC Jobs & Opportunities: Knowledge Management Officer, Global Sanitation Fund (P3), Application deadline 27 July 2014 Senior Advocacy and Communication Advisor. Application deadline 3 August 2014 Community of Practice: Join the independent platform for sanitation and hygiene knowledge sharing   Latest News ·         Madagascar leads the way to become open defecation free ·         Starting the conversation in West and Central Africa - WSSCC and UN Women break the silence on menstruation ·         Advocate for WASH: End open defecation now! ·         New sanitation partnership changes donor-recipient dynamic and aims to make two Nigerian States free from open defecation ·         WSSCC to participate in first National Menstrual Hygiene Management Conference in Uganda   Madagascar leads the way to become open defecation free   This week, Madagascar's new government committed to leading the way to become Africa's first open defecation free country. In meetings with WSSCC executive director Chris Williams and the local leaders of the movement to end open defecation, President Heri Rajaonarimampianina, Prime Minister Roger Kolo, and Minister of Water Johanita Ndahimananjara pledged to build on the results achieved by WSSCC's Global Sanitation Fund-supported programmes in rural areas across the country. Read more: Article, Presidential Statement     Starting the conversation in West and Central Africa - WSSCC and UN Women break the silence on menstruation   WSSCC and UN Women began active implementation of their new partnership when over 600 young women and girls from the Louga region of Senegal were surveyed about their menstrual hygiene knowledge, attitudes and practices from 13 to 15 June 2014. Read more.      Advocate for WASH: End open defecation now!   The UN Deputy Secretary General has called for action on sanitation. Recently, with support from WSSCC and other partners, he launched a campaign to break the silence on open defecation: visit opendefecation.org.     New sanitation partnership changes donor-recipient dynamic and aims to make two Nigerian States free from open defecation   The Government of Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Water Resources and the United Nations' Global Sanitation Fund are working together in a ground breaking partnership which goes far beyond the traditional donor-recipient relationship of most development programmes. This is the first donor initiative in Nigeria developed and led by the Government's National Task Group on Sanitation (NTGS), which is the instrument for sector coordination. Read more.     WSSCC to participate in first National Menstrual Hygiene Management Conference in Uganda   Menstrual Hygiene Management has been noted as a challenge worldwide where women and girls are deprived of both the materials and support required to manage the natural flow. It is in this regard and also in the quest for establishing information resources that the 2014 National Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) conference is being organised from 14 to 15 August 2014 at Hotel Africana in Kampala. Read more.      © 2011 Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) - 15, chemin Louis-Dunant - 1202 Geneva - Switzerland - www.wsscc.org You received this newsletter because you subscribed on the WSSCC website or are a WSSCC member.