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Ahana Shrestha | 27.11.2017
Small scale off-grid power supplies
1 answer
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Amy Jennings | 01.11.2017
Anyone with experience of using worm toilets, vermifilters or treating waste with worms? ?
1 answer
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Grace | 22.02.2018
How can other programmes become nutrition sensitive?
1 answer
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Grace | 22.02.2018
What are the options of aligning WASH and nutrition programmes at the community level?
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Grace | 22.02.2018
Can you suggest the role of cash based transfer in Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme to enhance adherence to treatment?
1 answer
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Julija M | 23.11.2017
Natural fibre reinforced concrete
1 answer
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Stephen Njoroge | 31.10.2017
Solid Waste Management in refugee settlement
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
Our contractor will soon be completing houses for families who lost their homes following a cyclone. The families own the land but the houses are completely new. What is the best process for handing over the houses to the families?
1 answer
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
We will soon be moving from our emergency shelter programme to repair and reconstruction of family homes. How can we identify the specialist staff we will need to design and monitor the programme?
1 answer
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
We are supporting family housing reconstruction using conditional cash transfers. Families can also contribute labour and materials. Unfortunately there are some members of the community who are too vulnerable to manage this process. What can we do?
1 answer
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RB | 27.10.2017
Operating procedures
2 answers
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Angus McBride | 02.11.2017
Break Pressure Tank vs Pressure Reducing Valve
4 answers
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Grace | 22.02.2018
What are the topics to be included in health education session on prevention of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) through hygiene promotion?
1 answer
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Woolyechidna | 02.11.2017
Inoculating Water with Thermotolerant Coliforms?
3 answers
180 views
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Grace | 22.02.2018
How can I promote safe motherhood and optimal maternal nutrition at the community level?
1 answer
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
Having constructed a demonstration house for the community, we think the timber is being eaten by termites. How can we prevent this happening when families build their own shelters?
4 answers
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
We are conducting a rapid needs assessment to inform the repair and reconstruction of family homes, but we are finding it hard to find any female family members, let alone speak with them. How can we make sure their voices are heard?
1 answer
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William Berbon | 27.06.2019
Which water filtration/treatment systems/products could we supply after a natural disaster?
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
The tents in the camp we are managing are leaking. It is cold and it is raining. The tents are single skin canvas family tents and we have tried waterproofing them using a layer of plastic sheeting, but they are still very wet inside. What can we do?
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Lizzie Babister | 22.02.2018
We do not have enough land to meet the Sphere indicator of 3.5m2 per person. The sites we have for displaced families are small and scattered in an urban area. How can we find an adequate shelter solution?
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