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WASH Flashcards

1
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What is the SWA

A

Sanitation and Water for all

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2
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Who forms the SWA

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Tearfund and Water Aid

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When was the SWA Partnership formed

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2010

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4
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how many people live without access to clean water

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730 Million

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5
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how many people live without access to adequate sanitation facilities

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2.5 Billion

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6
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Globally how many people practice open defication

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more than 1 billion

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7
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What were the focus countries with WASH

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DRC and South Sudan, but WASH is rolled out in many countries in which Tearfund works.

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8
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What are Tearfund and our Partners committed too

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sustainable approaches to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)

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What does Sustainable Approaches to WASH provide

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  • enable communities to maintain access to safe water and sanitation,
  • to embrace good hygiene practices, with less dependency on external assistance
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10
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How does WASH initiatives aim to reduce the
incidence and impact of WASH-related
diseases among poor communities

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  • sustainable access to safe water supplies
  • safe and appropriate sanitation
  • knowledge of the benefits of good hygiene practice.
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what is crucial for communities in order to have long-term and sustained access to clean water, good sanitation and hygiene.

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community-led, community-owned and community-managed approaches

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How many people over the course of a year recieved Hygiene Education

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120,000,

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13
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How many people have access to new toilet systems

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45,000

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14
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What could £9 per month bring

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£9 a month over a year could
build two latrines, helping prevent
the spread of sickness and disease
within a community.

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What could £16 per month bring

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£16 a month over a year could
provide two families with hygiene
kits, providing essentials to
last for a year.

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What could £20 bring

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£20 a month over a year could
provide three communities with
a water tank, giving a continuous
supply of safe water.

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17
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What presents a huge threat
to many communities across the world, where
Careful management of water resources and
adaptation is crucial to building the resilience
of these communities to future shocks

A

Climate Change

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18
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Where illustrates illustrate the real effects of

climate change.

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The communities of Karonga and Salima

districts in Malaw

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19
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Give an example as to why areas like Malawi are prone to floodlng

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its mostly flat, rising to hills further from
the lake shore. the communities are then
prone to flooding which destroys crops, kills
livestock, causes latrines to collapse and
damages houses,

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20
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What makes flooding more likely in places like Malawi

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Deforestation in the districts and

upstream also makes flooding more likely.

21
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When the existing boreholes were constructed

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in the 1980s and ’90s

22
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What was the problem withe boreholes of the 1980’s and 90’s

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communities were not
made responsible for looking after their own
water supply, which meant many boreholes
have fallen into disrepair and disuse

23
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Because Communities were not made responsible for looking after their own boreholes what were communities faced with

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When boreholes fail, communities face a longer
walk to another borehole, creating queues for
water, or resort to using shallow wells, rivers
or ponds

24
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What was the 28-month project implemented by

Tearfund local church partners, which ended in 2015

A

The Water and Climate Justice (WCJ) Project

25
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What were the two partners involved in WCJ

A

AGREDS and

SOLDEV.

26
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What did WCJ (Water and Climate Justice Project do

A

built the resilience of 14,000 households
in Karonga and Salima districts to the effects of
climate change, through:

27
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How did WCJ increase the availability of Clean water

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by rehabilitating water points and setting up

Water Point Committees to maintain them

28
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The final evaluation of the WCJ project found that….

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93 per cent of those surveyed are able to
access clean and safe water from a borehole. (73% at start)
There was a reduction in waterborne diseases
across the community

29
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What in the short term was the biggest impact from WCJ

A

thelevel of ownership and commitment to the

restored boreholes

30
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How many trees around Malawi were planted in order

to improve soil fertility and the retention of rainwater

A

300,000

31
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Where was WCJ initiated

A

The communities of Karonga and Salima

districts in Malawi

32
Q

Years on from the violence that erupted in

2003, millions of people where are still in desperate need

A

Darfur, a large region in Sudan which neighbours Chad,

33
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Ongoing insecurity in the Darfur region prevents the
wide-scale return of IDP populations across
Darfur. This keeps them…..

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trapped in a cycle of poverty with their coping mechanisms compromised, dependent upon humanitarian relief and recovery

34
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what is an IDP

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Internally Displaced Person someone who is forced to flee there home but remains within there country’s borders. They are often referred to as refugees

35
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What has Tearfund done in Sudan

A

Tearfund has worked to rehabilitate water
points and hand-pumps in order to supply
communities with clean water

36
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What project has Tearfund introduced into Sudan

A

Community-Led Total Sanitation

CLTS

37
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What does CLTS provide

A

eliminates open defecation
by challenging existing behaviours and ensuring
the community takes ownership of the issue

38
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What was the success of CLTS

A

In ten villages, 2,800 out of a planned total of
3,000 households have constructed and now
use latrines through CLTS

39
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What was the challenges facing the DRC

A

most people defecated in the surrounding bush. Hand
washing with soap or ash was not practised,
food was left uncovered outside and discarded
rubbish rotted in the roads.

40
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What programme helped with the challenges in the DRC

A

SWIFT programe

41
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What is the aim of the SWIFT programme

A

Community Health Clubs, an approach
being piloted by the SWIFT programme in
semi-urban areas of the DRC

42
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What has SWIFT set up in the DRC

A

Community Health Clubs, in semi-urban areas of the DRC

43
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What do the SWIFT healthclubs provide

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weekly discussions on health and hygiene topics, such as the safe storage of drinking water, or making soap to ensureready availability

44
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What does WASH stand for

A

Water Sanitation and Hygiene

45
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What is Toilet Twining

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Toilet Twinning is an initiative which invites people to ‘twin’ their own toilet with latrines in poor communities . . Toilet Twinners receive

46
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What does Toilet Twinning provide

A

This is a way of raising funds to enable people in the poorest nations to have clean water and a proper toilet, and to learn about hygiene

47
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What do Toilet Twinners recieve

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a certificate, containing a photo of the twinned latrine, its location and GPS coordinates.

48
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How much does it cost to twin a toilet

A

£60

49
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Why is a safe toilet and the need to Twin a toilet so important

A

For many, this is a revelation, a light bulb moment. Many simply have never known why diarrhoea lays them low during the rainy season. They have never understood why their children have fallen ill or died.

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