Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene For Development

This new peer-reviewed journal plans to publish original contributions including research, analysis, review and commentary and to emphasize issues of concern in developing and middle-income countries and in disadvantaged communities world-wide, such as: Water supply: intermittent supply, community and utility water supplies, water treatment, distribution, storage and use, water access and quality; Sanitation: collection, transport, treatment, use, discharge, on-site and off-site sanitation, resources recovery; Hygiene: behaviours, education, change; Technical and managerial issues: characteristics of and constraints to conventional and innovative approaches; technical options and boundaries of technical application; emerging issues, emergencies and disasters; impacts on health, poverty and development; sustainability; demand, marketing, organizing supply chains; Institutional development: roles of public and private sector; capacity building, governance, education and training; Financing and economic analysis: including cost-effectiveness and cost-benefits, role and impact of subsidies, user fees, financial instruments, innovations in financing; Policy: examining all aspects and developments in the role of national policy on service provision; human rights and rights-based approaches policy; developing appropriate and scaleable legal and regulatory approaches, norms and standards; and International policy: aid and aid effectiveness; international targets, conventions and agreements, UN and international policy.

Post Date : 28 Juli 2010