By Krishna Prasad Paudel
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The WHO has developed six WASH strategies to minimise WASH-related risks. This includes universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene for all, improved water quality, the efficiency of water use, integrated water resource management, and protection as well as restoration of the ecosystem as the key strategies to achieve the goal.
However, these strategies are related to dissemination of the information and enhancement of knowledge on WASH among the general public. They focus on standards and regulations at a national level, particularly for drinking-water safety, effective surveillance approaches, recreational water quality, sanitation safety, safe wastewater use, WASH in health and educational facilities, and WASH monitoring to enhance the knowledge and awareness of WASH among the general public.
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Based on the strategies of the WHO, we can discuss WASH knowledge management, in urban and rural contexts, to minimise the risks. The following possible activities can be effective to advocate as well as make people aware of the WASH in urban Nepal.
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The WASH knowledge management strategies demand technical assistance to the programme and particularly focuses on systematically-generated evidence from the field. The evidence then converts findings into advocacy, approaches, and tools to change the behaviours of all communities and WASH-service providers as well as policymakers.
Paudel is a knowledge management expert.