Social Marketing in Sanitation – More than Selling Toilets

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:16 +0000

Sanitation and hygiene is consistently, and justly, described as the orphan sector of development. Professionals working with sanitation lament the devastating effects that the lack of international attention and chronic under-funding in the sector has on the health, lives and development of the over 2.6 billion people who lack access to safe sanitation. Due to the supposed unsightly nature of the issue, many blame a subconscious but powerful taboo surrounding sanitation in the international community as a central cause of the slow and insufficient progress being made to address the global sanitation crisis.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2008.

Click here to read the article in Spanish.

Micro-credit – a Nobel Peace Prize Winning Initiative

Nora — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:36:27 +0000

On a cold December 10th afternoon in 2006 in Oslo, Norway, Professor Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of himself and his organisation the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The Norwegian Nobel Committee stated that they had chosen the laureates ”for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.”

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2007.

Stockholm International Water Institute » Cecilia Martinsen

Social Marketing in Sanitation – More than Selling Toilets

Micro-credit – a Nobel Peace Prize Winning Initiative