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The teams should have the following expertise in order to produce a sound floating toilet design:
b) Civil engineering
c) Public Health
d) Architecture
e) Water Resources Management
f) Social Sciences
g) Environmental Management
h) and any relevant field.
Floating Toilet Challenge (Word Document)
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WASHTED was delighted to welcome partners and stakeholders to The Malawi Polytechnic on the 11th July to launch it’s first 5 year Strategic Plan. Developed with the support of the SHARE Consortium (http://www.shareresearch.org), the plan focuses on five key pillars: Research, Capacity Building, Consultancy and Outreach, Finance and Resource Mobilisation, and Governance and Management. Director Dr. Salule Masangwi said “this is an exciting step forward for the Centre and we hope that the strategic plan will make our vision and mission clear to our existing and potential partners as we move the WASH sector forward in Malawi”.
WASHTED STRATEGIC PLAN(PDF)
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WASHTED was delighted share an update on it’s activities in the latest WASAMA Water Sector Magazine. We encourage our partners to visit the magazine online to read more about the Centre and partnerships.
Read more link: http://wasama.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/WATER-SECTOR-MAGAZINE-VOLUME-3.pdf
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Tracy Morse and Save Kumwenda attended the SHARE partners meeting in Zambia from 1st – 2nd June to update members on Malawi’s progress since December 2016. Presentations on the national programme, capacity building, research uptake research fellow programme and formative research outputs were given and followed by energetic discussions and inputs from both the SHARE Management Group and partners in Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya. It was excellent to receive project updates from the other countries, and see the enthusiasm of the research fellows now in place in each country. The Malawi team continue focus work on the WASH and weaning foods protocol and are developing further collaborations between SHARE partners.
Read more link: http://www.shareresearch.org
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The WASHTED team, with visiting social scientists from Maynooth and Buckinghamshire New University’s, conducted their first community based Shared Dialogue Workshop for the WATERSPOUTT project in Chikwawa on 25th May 2017. The workshop conducted structured discussions with a range of community-based stakeholders exploring issues of water governance, water access, gender and water treatment technologies. Participants were shown a range of water treatment systems including solar water disinfection, ceramic filtration and a combined solar ceramic system, (prototype). Feedback from this workshop will support the design of the final solar ceramic system to be trialed in Malawi in 2018.
Read more link: www.waterspoutt.eu
