Partnership Projects
The WECF members carry out implementation projects in the areas of clean water, eco-sanitation, sustainable agriculture, health, chemicals, energy efficiency and sustainable energy. WECF project strongly support gender mainstreaming within all the work. During a partnership project between the WECF secretariats in the Netherlands or Germany and a WECF member local businesses and local government are actively involved in the project implementation.
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Bulgaria - Safe Sanitation, Health and Dignity Implementation of dry urine diverting toilets and and waste water soil filters for schools and private households Partners: Earth Forever Foundation, Bulgaria Issues: Water, Health, Sanitation Duration: 10/2007 - 09/2010 |
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Children's Environmental Health Award 2010: "Protecting children's health in a changing environment" Working towards the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Parma, Italy, 10-12 March 2010 Partners: HEAL, ISDE Austria, EcoForum Issues: environmental health, children's health, indoor air pollution Duration: 09/2009 - 04/2010 |
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Empowerment & Local Action (ELA) Building the capacity of poor local communities in rural areas. Partners: NGOs in several countries Issues: Energy, Agriculture, Water, Sanitation Duration: 01/2008 - 12/2010 |
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Germany - Networks for healthy food Promoting fair, healthy and local food production - co-operation project between Unser Land and WECF members Partners: Unser Land, ZijActief Issues: Agriculture and Food Duration: 02/2006 - 07/2010 |
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International Project Nesting - A healthy Environment for Healthy Children helping parents to create a safe and healthy environment for their newborns Partners: Clean Up Greece, Large Familes Association Hungary, WECF France, WECF UK, WECF Netherlands, WECF Germany Issues: health, chemicals Duration: 09/2008 - 12/2011 |
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Kyrgyzstan - Decentralised and sustainable wastewater management Consulting and supporting NGOs in Kyrgyzstan to develop ecolocial sanitation and wastewater management in rural areas Partners: Habitat for Humanity, Alga, Ulgu, Biom Issues: Sanitation, Water, Sustainable Development, Agriculture and Food Duration: 03/2006 - 12/2011 |
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Moldova - Democratization of the governance of the Dniester river basin Local authorities, NGOs and citizen's communities work together in trans-boundary cooperation between Moldova, Transdniestria and Ukraine towards sustainable management of Dniester River Basin Partners: Eco-Tiras, Eco-spectrum, Black Sea Women's Club Issues: Health, Water, Rights Duration: 12/2007 - 12/2010 |
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Romania - Safe Sanitation, Health and Dignity Implementation of dry urine diverting toilets and and waste water soil filters for schools and private households Partners: Medium et Sanitas Slobozia, EuroTeleorman Association, Femei pentru un Viitor Curat (Women for a Clean Future) Issues: Water, Health, Sanitation Duration: 10/2007 - 09/2010 |
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ToNi-Finder WECF's map for sustainable school Toilets and establishing Nitrate levels in ground, surface and drinking water Partners: Diverse NGOs Issues: Sanitation, Water, Chemicals Duration: 10/2009 - 10/2010 |
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Ukraine - Safe Sanitation, Health and Dignity Implementation of dry urine diverting toilets and and waste water soil filters for schools and private households Partners: MAMA-86, Black Sea Womens' Club Issues: Water, Health, Sanitation Duration: 10/2007 - 09/2010 |
Past Projects
Afghanistan - Tapping Resources
WECF and Katachel Afghanistan working on improved sanitation for the Kunduz region
Partners: Katachel Afghanistan
Issues: Poverty, Agriculture, Water, Sanitation
Duration: 01/2005 - 12/2007
Armenia - Healthy food for pregnant women
Improving the health of newborn babies and pregnant women in Armenia. Growing organic Amaranth for the maternity clinic of Yerevan.
Partners: AWHHE
Issues: Health, Agriculture
Duration: 01/2000 - 08/2004
Armenia - Tapping Resources
Poverty elimination, organic farming and improvement of water supply and sanitation in rural areas of Armenia
Partners: AWHHE
Issues: Water, Sanitation, Agriculture, Poverty
Duration: 02/2005 - 12/2007
Belarus - Citizens involvement
Developing multi-stakeholder cooperation in the areas of water, waste and energy efficiency in Belarus
Partners: Ecoproject
Issues: Rights, Water, Sanitation
Duration: 12/2006 - 11/2009
Bulgaria - Water, waste and sanitation in rural areas
Developing a model for sustainable water and waste management for rural areas
Partners: Earth Forever Foundation, Institute of Ecological Modernization, WASTE, IRC Netherlands
Issues: Water, sanitation, health, waste, public participation
Duration: 02/2005 - 07/2007
Bulgaria / Greece – WECF Project Healthy Schools
School children are given the opportunity to learn about their environment and possible ways to improve and protect it by developing their own ideas
Partners: Earth Forever Foundation, Bulgaria / Clean up Greece, Environmental Organization, Greece
Issues: Environmental Health
Duration: 09/2007 - 02/2010
Poland - Women, chemicals and health
Two workshops on Women, Health and Chemicals
Partners: Karat, Social Ecological Institute
Issues: Chemicals, Gender
Duration: 03/2004 - 06/2005
Romania - Rural Development for All
Ecological sanitation and waste-(water) management in rural areas of Romania
Partners: GeoSan, Femei pentru un Viitor Curate (Women for a Clean Environment, FVC) and Foundation Ensemble
Issues: Water, Environment, Sustainable Development, Waste, Public Participation and Sanitation
Duration: 09/2005 - 11/2006
Romania - Safe drinking water
Developing a participatory democracy, creating a network of local environmental NGOs and implementing effective and reproducible small-scale projects for safe drinking water solutions.
Partners: Medium&Sanitas
Issues: Water, Sanitation, Agriculture, Poverty, Sustainability
Duration: 08/2001 - 03/2004
Romania - Support programme for the Roma village Prislop
Supporting the Roma community in their basic needs: health, sanitation, infrastructure and schooling
Partners: Anca Dancanet, Hewlett Packard
Issues: Health, Poverty, Sustainable Development and Environment
Duration: 10/2005 - 12/2007
Ukraine - Co-operation for Sustainable Rural Development
Involving citizens and local authorities in rural Ukraine in improvement of drinking water, sanitation and agriculture
Partners: MAMA-86 Poltava, MAMA-86 Kiev, MAMA-86 Yeremche and MAMA-86 Nishin, Fem-Consult, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
Issues: Water, Food, Agriculture, Environment, Poverty, Health, Gender, Sustainable Development, Public Participation, Environmental Rights and Sanitation
Duration: 11/2003 - 11/2006
Ukraine - Ecological sanitation solutions
Dry urine-diverting toilets for schools and households
Partners: MAMA-86 Odessa, MAMA-86 Kiev and MAMA-86 Sevastapol
Issues: Sanitation and water
Duration: 01/2005 - 12/2006
Ukraine - Safe Drinking Water
Improving the drinking water conditions through public awareness and participation.
Partners: MAMA-86 Kiev
Issues: Water & Sanitation
Duration: 03/1999 - 12/2003
Uzbekistan - Toxic Pollution in the Aral Sea Region
Research on toxins in the Aral Sea region: many years of DDT and other pesticide use shows up in mothermilk and cord blood.
Partners: University of Groningen, Center Perzent
Issues: Chemicals, food, agriculture, health, gender
Duration: 01/1999 - 01/2000
