This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania. It argues that the concept of gender, used on its own, is not enough to understand the complexities of sanitation, hygiene, water, and health. It explores pastoralists’ views and perspectives ...on what is ‘clean’, ‘safe’, and ‘healthy’, and their need to access water and create sanitary arrangements that work for them, given the absence of state provision of modern water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure. Although Tanzania is committed to enhancing its citizens’ access to WASH services, pastoral sanitation and hygiene tend to be overlooked and little attention is paid to complex ways in which access to ‘clean’ water and ‘adequate sanitation’ is structured in these communities. This paper offers an intersectional analysis of water and sanitation needs, showing how structural discrimination in the form of a lack of appropriate infrastructure, a range of sociocultural norms and values, and individual stratifiers interact to influence the sanitation and health needs of pastoralist men, women, boys, and girls.
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Soutenir les activités agricoles et pastorales pendant la contre-saison,
afin d’améliorer la sécurité alimentaire des ménages touchés par l’insécurité
Depuis début 2018, le Burkina Faso est confronté à une crise humanitaire
sans précédent. La détérioration rapide de l’insé...curité et l’augmentation
soudaine des attaques armées ont engendré des déplacements
de population qui pourraient atteindre plus de 333 000 personnes
avant la fin de l’année. Les difficultés d’accès aux champs, les destructions
d’infrastructures de production, les vols et les pertes de bétail, ainsi
que l’intensification des conflits intercommunautaires, entravent le
fonctionnement des marchés et détériorent les moyens d’existence
des ménages.
Les besoins humanitaires en augmentation croissante compromettent
non seulement les gains acquis en termes de développement, mais aussi
la cohésion sociale au Burkina Faso. Les zones rurales étant les plus
touchées par la crise, la sécurité alimentaire et l’agriculture revêtent ainsi
une importance capitale pour contribuer au relèvement et à la résilience
des populations affectées ainsi qu’au maintien de la paix.
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Lessons and best practices in empowering pastoralist communities to prevent HIV infection and reduce the impact of AIDS in Ethiopia. Briefing Paper
Child marriage is a widespread practice across Turkana, a nomadic pastoralist region in Kenya. This report explores the issue through the voices of those girls affected by it.
English Analysis on World about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment and more; published on 29 Sep 2021 by FAO and NEPAD
The One Health approach can help achieve progress and promotes synergies on national and global priorities by generating synergies at the human-animal-environmental interface. While evidence is still scare, it is likely that the approach is highly cost-effective and improves effectiveness of core pu...blic health systems, through reducing morbidity, mortality, and economic costs of disease outbreaks. It also contributes to economic development through strengthening public health systems at the human-animal-environment interface protects health, agricultural production, and
ecosystem services
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27 April 2022 Chronic land degradation: UN offers stark warnings and practical remedies in Global Land Outlook 2. GLO2 offers hundreds of examples from around the world that demonstrate the potential of land restoration.
The way land resources – soil, water and biodiversity – are currently mi...smanaged and misused threatens the health and continued survival of many species on Earth, including our own, warns a stark new report from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
It also points decision makers to hundreds of practical ways to effect local, national and regional land and ecosystem restoration.
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Exhortation Apostolique sur l' amour dans la famille (2016)
Exhortacion Apostolic Postsinodal Amoris Laetitia sobre el amor en la familia SOBRE (2016)
Confernece Report 15-16 April 2013 - Dublin, Ireland
Case Studies on Building Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Surge in climate change-related disasters poses growing threat to food security