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Post by davidvick on Jul 17, 2011 22:33:34 GMT
We are hoping to help communities recover effectively from a flood or an earthquake and develop a sustainable and effective sanitation system. In the process of this we have been searching for good case studies to base our investigations on, and have primarily settled on the floods in Mozambique (2000) and the Kashmir Earthquake (2005).
Is 5-10 years long enough to judge the success of any attempts at sustainable sanitation development projects?
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Post by afshin on Jul 20, 2011 3:32:36 GMT
as the main aim is to see how the gap between disaster relief and development can be bridged, I suggest a clearer definition of the relief phase, reconstruction and development phases.
I really think if we are trying to bridge two points A and B, we really need the coordinates of A and B.
we should do this at some point, and make it available to be viewed by everyone.
I think in many cases development is not happening most the time but reconstruction and therefore one can say there was no real development so talking about the gap will be even more confusing.
if we discuss development and actually redefine "development" in the way we want it to mean, then the innovations and new technology can be more easily discussed.
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Post by davidvick on Jul 20, 2011 19:00:15 GMT
yep agreed. I think i saw somewhere that there was a definition saying something along the lines of 'its development when the ratio of people per latrine is ___ people'. I think the number was something like 50, however whatever it was it did seem to be a pretty arbitrary value. The3 article also said that even if that was what development was, it made little difference in practice!
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