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Only 9% of Madagascar’s rural population has access to safely managed drinking water.

Andrew Tanswell — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:15:27 +0000

Just 9% of Madagascar’s rural population has access to safely managed drinking water. A further 27% of the rural population does have some level of basic service but the 64% have limited or no access to clean water. A full 18% of rural populations only have access to surface water.

The picture is better – in relative terms – in urban areas with 38% having access to safe water, but the national average is still only 21%.

Source: SDGData

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Handwashing: The Harsh Facts and Figures

Andrew Tanswell — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 14:37:20 +0000

3 out of 10 people, 2.3 billion, lack a handwashing facility with water and soap at home, including 670 million who have no access to a handwashing facility at all. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
700 children die every day from diseases linked to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
818 million children lack a handwashing facility with water and soap at their school.(WHO/UNICEF 2021)
462 million children attend schools with no handwashing facilities at all. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
1 in 3 healthcare facilities does not have access to hand hygiene where care is provided. Almost 2 billion people depend on health care facilities without basic water services.
It is estimated that half a million people die each year from diarrhoea or acute respiratory infections which could have been prevented with timely and thorough hand hygiene. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
Timely hand hygiene prevents up to 50 per cent of avoidable infections acquired during health care delivery, including those affecting the health workforce.
(WHO/UNICEF 2021)
Over the past five years, half a billion people have gained access to basic hand hygiene facilities – a rate of 300,000 per day. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)
Hygiene promotion is the most cost effective health intervention. (World Bank 2016)

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Consultancy for the WASH Sector

Andrew Tanswell — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:41:34 +0000

Led by the two SaniTap founders, each with over 30 years of experience providing management consultancy along side the team of consultant advisors, associates, and practitioners, SaniTap provides support to: –

· Manage projects in the areas of climate adaptation, community resiliency, and climate risk management;

· Conduct vulnerability assessments and develops adaptation strategies for urban and rural communities through research and stakeholder engagement;

· Develop climate action plans that describe projected climate impacts, quantify current and future greenhouse gas emissions, and identify strategies to build resiliency and reduce emissions;

· Incubate, develop and build businesses including formulating products and services which mitigate, adapt and build resilience in communities facing the impact of climate change;

· Project management of initiatives, managing teams through all phases of a project (planning, implementation, analysis, reports) from initiation to completion;

· Development of Financial Planning and Business/Project Models;

· Gold Standard Voluntary and CDM Compliance Carbon Project for registration of carbon tradable projects;

· Non-market vehicles for Adaptation funding;

· Monitoring, Validation and Reporting for projects.

Our consultancy services are marked by fair treatment and meaningful involvement of clients, community members, and related stakeholders.

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2.2 Billion lack access to clean water

Andrew Tanswell — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:15:08 +0000

Billions of people around the world are continuing to suffer from poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene, according to a report by UNICEF and the World Health Organization.

2 billion people around the world do not have ‘safely managed drinking water services’ – ie they don’t have clean running water
2 billion people do not have ‘safely managed sanitation services’ -ie they don’t have hygienic toilets
3 billion lack ‘basic handwashing facilities’ – ie they cannot wash their hands with soap and water in the home

The Joint Monitoring Programme report, Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene: 2000-2017: Special focus on inequalities reveals that while 1.8 billion people have gained access to basic drinking water services since 2000, there are huge inequalities in the accessibility, availability and quality of these services.

It is estimated that 1 in 10 people (785 million) still lack basic services, including an astonishingly large number of 144 million people who drink untreated surface water.

The data shows that 8 in 10 people living in rural areas lacked access to clean water.

The report highlighted new data showing 3 billion people lack basic handwashing facilities with soap and water at home in 2017. And that nearly ¾ of the population of the Least Developed Countries did not have basic handwashing facilities.

SaniTap knows that its aim and mission meets a real and widespread human need. Partnering with SaniTap will save lives.

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H2O 4 CO2: Innovative WASH financing for Madagascar

admin — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:12:26 +0000

This pro-poor carbon project in Madagascar removes 240,000 tCO2 annually, by restoring access to safe drinking water to 650,000 people who presently rely on contaminated water from rivers. This is done by rehabilitating over 2 thousand non-functioning rural water points; and maintaining these for a decade or more. These handpumps were constructed in the past by aid organisations or other development organisations, but have fallen into disrepair due to absent technical repair skills, lack of organizational capacity or spare parts, poverty or extreme climate events such as cyclones and drought.

Victims of climate change

Madagascar is the one of the world’s poorest countries; and one of the few countries that is consistently getting poorer. “In the last 20 years GDP per capita has not grown; and the number in extreme poverty increased almost one-for-one with total population”. Presently, the country is “on the brink of experiencing the world’s first climate change famine”, according to the United Nations, which says tens of thousands of people are already suffering catastrophic levels of hunger and food insecurity after four years without rain.

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National Handwashing Day news: Introducing Business Connect

admin — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:28:25 +0000

National Handwashing Day – October 2020

SaniTap is delighted to announce that Business Connect is one of our new global distributors for our flagship SaniTap handwashing dispenser. BC’s mission is to provide citizens living in the Global South with affordable and easy access to clean water, through the creation of sustainable local business models. The SaniTap seamlessly fits within their portfolio. Washing hands is of course especially important in response to the Coronavirus.

The first SaniTap shipments have already been dispatched to various countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas, and we look forward to reaching increasing numbers of people with the health benefits of handwashing with soap, even if there is no running water at home.

Business Connect stated in their press release:

“This product provides clean water for washing hands, which is especially important in response to the Coronavirus. To avoid recontamination of washed hands, the unique spout design easily pulls down with just two fingers, and can be closed by a gentle upwards tap with the back of the hand. The net keeps the bar of soap conveniently near the flow of water and prevents the bar from falling on the ground or getting lost.”

To minimise the use of water, important in water-scarce environments, the spout dispenses a minimal amount of water that is more than sufficient to wash hands. The device can conveniently be hung by a nail or from a stick and delivers 3 litres of water over 10 minutes – that’s enough for a family of 5 to wash their hands 3 times a day.

We are thrilled in this example of collaboration within the WASH sector.

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