Reference

REFERENCE LIBRARY for WASH /WATSAN

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• Search engine
• Dictionaries / Glossaries
• Geo political information /Maps
• Statistics
• information by sectors
• Translation

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WatSan WASH Dictionaries Glossaries

• Water Quality Association glossary basic definitions of about 1500 terms found in sanitation water literature from treatment to ailments
• Safe Water is Essential glossary -  about  200 basic definitions
• A selection of water glossaries & thesaurus -A  great selection of water glossaries & thesaurus in several languages compiled by EMWIS (Euro-Mediterranean Information System on Know-How in the Water Sector)
• Who Water and sanitation related diseases fact sheets

Pedias,Wikis, Document sets

• WaterWiki.net - “connecting Water professionals to knowledge and experience based on work in the context of the UN”

• Akvpedia
  • Sanitation describes sanitation technologies which can be applied from the household level to the village level.
  • Water describes sanitation technologies which can be applied from the household level to the village level
  • Organizations a listing of different types of organisations who are working in the water and sanitation sector.
• WatSan Mission Assistant 
  • Find documents, tools, and updates on what is new in the WatSan world
  • run by IFRC Geneva
• The WASH Sustainability Resource Database
  • provides easy access to a wide range of WASH sustainability resources, aligned with the framework of the WASH Sustainability Charter and the WASH Sustainability Process
• The IRC WASH Library
  • “The IRC WASH Library acts as WASH Sector memory documenting more than 40 years of sector progress, analysis and tools. The library provides direct access to a still increasing number of WASH sector documents. The collection is built around current themes of interest for the WASH sector and also contains documents produced outside the formal channels of publication and distribution”
• The Global Women’s Network (GWN) 
  • A  “wikipedia of women’s and girls’ organizations. [They]strive to be the largest collaborative information source on women’s and girls’ organizations operating around the world.”

  

Geopolitical information GPI /Interactive Maps

• The Food and Agriculture Organization FAO  for the United Nations GPI
• Aquastat Country Profiles
• Aquastat interactive water usage maps
  
• WASH funding -
  • WASHwatch.org  is the online platform for monitoring government policy commitments and budgets
• UN-Water Key Water Indicator Portal – Water Statistics:
  • This portal offers up-to-date latest value information on the official UN-Water Indicators that are currently being measured by UN organizations and agencies. These have been selected by the UN-Water Task Force on Indicators, Monitoring and Reporting

Statistics

United Nation  Water for Life Decade:  facts and  statistics page with numerous links covering areas like

water for life decade

• Key Water and Sanitation Statistics
• The global water supply situation
• The global Sanitation situation
• Gender, water and sanitation
• The Economics of Investments in Water & Sanitation

http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/factsheet.html

WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

WHOSIS

WHOSIS, the WHO Statistical Information System, is an interactive database bringing together core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States. It comprises more than 100 indicators, which can be accessed by way of a quick search, by major categories, or through user-defined tables. The data can be further filtered, tabulated, charted and downloaded. The data are also published annually in the World Health Statistics Report released in May.

Page is viewable in Arabic Chinese English French Russian  Spanish

1. One can download latest World Health Statistics  report
2. One can create at table of data using  category:

• Mortality and burden of disease
• Health service coverage
• Risk factors
• Health systems resources
• Inequities
• Demographic and socioeconomic statistics
• or Select from a list of regions/countries, indicators and time periods

Data when available can be exported to cvs files for import to a spreadsheet or other database

other related WHO  links

• WHO Global InfoBase Online
  • Data on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO Member States
• Global Health Atlas
  • Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels
• Regional statistics
  • Statistical information from WHO Regional Offices

Information by sectors

• Women’s issues tied to water:
  • Women for Water Partnership
• CLTS
  • Community-Led Total Sanitation Materials
• Process
  • Process documentation resources from IRC

Translation