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This blog was written by Christine Fostvedt-Mills, Line Richter and Jocelyn Kelln and originally appeared on the Sanitation Learning Hub website. 

In 1985, the global community convened in Nairobi to review and examine the achievements of the UN Decade of Women. Agreeing that the goals of the first World Conference on Women had not been met, participants collectively recognized that all issues are women’s issues, leading some to dub the conference the “birth of global feminism.” In 2000, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) included promoting gender equality and improving maternal health among the 8 goals and then, in 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) amplified the issue of gender inequality, declaring goal #5 to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.”

As part of Revolutionising Development week at the Institute of Development Studies - colleagues and friends have got in touch to share their written and video reflections on the work of Robert Chambers, who celebrates his 90th birthday this year. 

Sara Bagheri and Seyed Babak Moosavi Nejad
Freelance consultants on participatory approaches, Iran

Tracing Robert’s footprints in facilitators’ narratives

For one of the workshops we were conducting for local extension staff around Lake Urmia, we invited Latif and Leyla to come and share their account of using PRA tools. Imagine, two field facilitators from a small private agricultural enterprise telling government extension staff how participatory work is done. Yes, we were a little nervous! But the day evolved into a celebration of how far good, humble facilitation can go in handing over the stick and making local reality count.

There they were, Latif and Leyla, displaying some of the tools they had used to understand local CDR, and talking about:

The Sanitation Learning Hub is delighted to to announce the 1st edition of the new series ‘Practitioner Voices’.

About the Practitioner Voices series: the series aims to amplify insightful perspectives of practitioners working within countries at local and regional level. Each edition will have a distinct focus. 

About the 1st edition 'Tough Physical Environments': SLH was very lucky to work with 3 practitioners to present their ideas, challenges and innovations of working on sanitation and hygiene in ‘tough physical environments’.

The published Practitioner Voices stories:

The Sanitation Learning Hub have recently published a blog providing a very brief overview of Hand Hygiene for South Asia , which draws on WHO and UNICEF's Global Hand Hygiene for All initiative and vision.  

Almost 2 in 5 people in South Asia don't have a designated handwashing facility with soap & water on premises. This blog looks at South Asian countries currently producing national road maps to achieve hand hygiene for all.