Réseau ou collectif
Langue de travail:
français; anglais;
Activités: Le Réseau pour l'Approvisionnement en Eau en Milieu Rural (RWSN), est un réseau global de connaissance qui promeut les politiques et les pratiques saines en matière d'approvisionnement en eau en milieu rural.
Activities: The network is organised under the following four themes:
- Cost-effective Boreholes: The cost-effective boreholes (CEB) theme of the Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) aims that policies are adopted and practices followed which bring about cost-effective borehole provision, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
- Self Supply: The water and sanitation MDG targets in Africa can only be reached by progress in rural areas. However this is where progress is the most difficult. Across Africa, rural households lag well below urban ones in coverage and quality of water services. The poorest and most remote communities are typically by-passed by sector programs and carry less political weight. The little that goes to rural communities is often not used effectively. Decentralization has brought government closer to them, but local authorities have been handicapped by the lack of adequate technical and financial support.
- Sustainable Rural Water Supplies: Adoption of appropriate technology needs to be coupled with effective strategies for operation and maintenance to ensure that water services are sustained. Such strategies must include effective management models, technical support to communities, sustainable financing mechanisms, and development of sustainable supply chains.
- Handpump Technologies: RWSN promotes the development and use of practical guides for technology selection and standardisation.