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Launch of new Hidden WASH online workshops

1 September 2022 AmitaBlog

Online capacity building workshops on Hidden WASH are now available to book for organisations across the WASH sector

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RWSN Workshop: Hidden WASH needs of perimenopausal women

8 July 2022 AmitaBlog

This half-day capacity development workshop uses empirical findings from Ghana and the UK to introduce the ‘hidden’ WASH needs of perimenopausal women aged in their late 40s and 50s, expanding current understandings of equity and inclusion.

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Keynote lecture at Water WISER Conference

2 July 2022 AmitaBlog

We have more in common as researchers, and there are many areas where our paths cross and we seldom notice. Let’s make conscious efforts to work across our silos, not within, to truly leave no one behind.

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Equality for sanitation workers is key to transforming waste into Brown Gold

8 June 2022 AmitaBlog

It is fundamental that we start using a rights-based approach to support the welfare of sanitation workers.

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Reflection workshop: barriers to inclusion of older people with incontinence and their caregivers in humanitarian settings

19 January 2022 AmitaBlog

The one-day workshop enabled the research leads to reflect on the project and the processes of doing the research, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Forced to clean excreta “…by accident of their birth in a particular caste”

6 December 2021 AmitaBlog

The final day of the Sanitation Workers Forum focused on participation in workshops to establish how labour rights can be effectively connected to sanitation, and how those working to support sanitation workers to realise their rights can learn lessons from other sectors.

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“Sanitation workers live invisible lives in our cities”

3 December 2021 AmitaBlog

Recognising sanitation workers and giving them the protections and benefits they are entitled to should be a priority moving forward.

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“If you ask who emptied the pit, no one will show their hands”

1 December 20211 December 2021 AmitaBlog

The second day of the Sanitation Workers Forum explored intersectionality, the challenges of COVID-19, occupational health and safety, and sanitation worker representation.

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“Exploiting sanitation workers is a form of modern slavery”

30 November 2021 AmitaBlog

A recognition of manual scavenging as a form of modern slavery, representation of the different individuals involved in sanitation in different contexts and a reflection on the history of sanitation work are key learnings to take forward.

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New journal paper: The hidden WASH needs of perimenopausal women

10 November 202128 November 2021 AmitaBlog

Our new paper in the Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, The hidden WASH needs of perimenopausal women, reveals the experiences of women in Ghana who are at the time when their periods will permanently stop, at the menopause, taking a journey through a stage called the perimenopause.

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