This paper discusses how hybrid sanitation markets can contribute to improving sanitation in informal settlements in three cities of the Great Lakes Region in East Africa; Kisumu (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda) and Kigali (Rwanda) and more generally in sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so it draws on...

Biodiversity informatics is an emerging discipline which deals with the collection, collation, analysis, prediction, and dissemination of data and information related to the earth's biotic resources. This article is a review of the policy and legislation instruments relevant to biodiversity...

Sanitation is a basic human right and poor sanitation and insanitary conditions are a threat to the health of the whole population. The policy brief argues that rather than promoting market or state-led approaches, combining the two is a more useful approach in improving sanitation in the...

Rwanda suffers of a very important deficit of affordable housing. The bulk of it is due to the inability of the finance sector to attend low-income households. Numerous initiatives were implemented by the Government of Rwanda to alleviate this problem, but the deficit keeps on deepening.This...

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services are examined from the Political Economy Analysis (PEA) perspective in Rwanda. Through a participatory qualitative approach, the findings show that water and sanitation services have been relatively low on the political agenda in Rwanda. There is a...