New WaterAid report: WASH & filariasis & leprosy | New World Bank report on the Mirt Ethiopian cookstove

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Aug 21, 2015, 10:29:20 AM8/21/15

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Below are links to new WaterAid and World Bank reports plus links to the latest posts to the WASHplus Indoor Air Pollution Updates and Household Drinking Water Quality Updates:

The importance of water, sanitation and hygiene for lymphatic filariasis and leprosy care and inclusion, August 2015. WaterAid.

Link: http://goo.gl/pozhjp

The timing is right. There are currently opportunities for the WASH and NTD sectors to capitalise on to ensure integrated and holistic approaches to eliminating LF and leprosy. The strategic aim from the GPELF that ‘by 2015, all national elimination programmes will have active morbidity management programmes’ has just been met, yet is not being seen in practice, while the current leprosy strategy has ended. There will be a need to support putting LF MMDP into practice, and to develop a new leprosy strategy. It is possible to ensure gaps in past strategy and programming are addressed, and that MMDP is prioritised equally alongside disease prevention and treatment. We cannot leave the already disabled behind. This briefing should provide a strong starting point for influencing and putting change into practice.

Can Improved Biomass Cookstoves Contribute to REDD+ in Low-Income Countries? Evidence from a Controlled Cooking Test Trial with Randomized Behavioral Treatments, August 2015. World Bank.

Link: https://goo.gl/1pa03c

This paper provides field experiment–based evidence on the potential additional forest carbon sequestration that cleaner and more fuel-efficient cookstoves might generate. The paper focuses on the Mirt (meaning “best”) cookstove, which is used to bake injera, the staple food in Ethiopia. The analysis finds that the technology generates per-meal fuel savings of 22 to 31 percent compared with a traditional three-stone stove with little or no increase in cooking time. Because approximately 88 percent of harvests from Ethiopian forests are unsustainable, these findings suggest that the Mirt stove, and potentially improved cookstoves more generally, can contribute to reduced forest degradation.

Recent Posts to IAP Updates

Study protocol: the effects of air pollution exposure and chronic respiratory disease on pneumonia risk in urban Malawian adults

Can improved biomass cookstoves contribute to REDD+ in low-income countries?

Fred Colgan, co-founder of InStove – Cookstoves for the World’s Poorest Communities

Poverty, Energy Use, Air Pollution and Health in Ghana: A Spatial Analysis

Impacts of household energy programs on fuel consumption in Benin, Uganda, and India

Global risk factor rankings: the importance of age-based health loss inequities caused by alcohol and other risk factors

Cooking and Season as Risk Factors for Acute Lower Respiratory Infections in African Children: A Cross-Sectional Multi-Country Analysis

Impact of exposure to cooking fuels on stillbirths, perinatal, very early and late neonatal mortality – a multicenter prospective cohort study in rural communities in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Zambia and Guatemala

Quantitative Guidance for Stove Usage and Performance to Achieve Health and Environmental Targets

Is air pollution a risk factor for rheumatoid arthritis?

From Theory to Practice of Change: Lessons from SNV’s Improved Cookstoves and Fuel Projects in Cambodia, Kenya, Nepal and Rwanda