I am very privileged to present our work on #WASH failures and launch our new publication at the Water and WASH Futures Conference conference. Check out waterwomenworld.com/wash-failures to learn more! #WaterandWASHfutures #WaWF23 #WASHTwitter

The last few #WASH Failures badges are with Dr Dani Barrington 🇺🇦 💩🩸🙊 at the Water and WASH Futures Conference conference- find her and grab one if you're keen - she's generally easy to find as the most colourful person in the room! #waterandwashfutures #WaWF23

What makes a failure... a failure? Making sure all stakeholders in a project or programme have a shared idea of what success and failure look like is a useful starting point. #WASHTwitter Read more: sanitationlearninghub.org/resource/learn…

paresh chhajed-picha SuSanA Santhosh Garakahalli Andrés Hueso González Thanks Paresh for hosting the meeting. I loved the little round of "Confessions of a busy Forum user/non-user" we had 😄. It had quite some WASH Failures's for us as SuSanA community to think about going forward.

This is like the twin account of WASH Failures - WASH Wins! Wait, are we the evil twin?! 🙈

"Courageous failure: The one question to ask when evaluating a charity - National Christian Foundation" ncfgiving.com/stories/courag… via @ncfgiving #WASHTwitter

This week we'll be talking about why failures happen, what role systemic issues play in causing failures, how to address failures and how to talk about them... But let's start with the basics! Why are WASH Failures so obsessed with failures?

It's Tuesday and we're talking about why failures happen. In 2020 we asked over 100 frontline professionals in water and sanitation in 4 sub-Saharan African countries why failures happen, how they discuss them, and how we can build a culture of sharing and learning from failures.

We are failing many people in high income countries.

With funders clearly being an important part of how water and sanitation operates in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, it only seemed reasonable to find out why they think failures occur, so with generous support from The Sanitation Learning Hub we asked them!

It's been a bit of a depressing start to the week with all this talk about failures! So today let's look at what we can do about them? What's the best way to address failures, ideally to stop them occuring but also to limit the damage they do when they do take place?

If you are at a mega-conference... A well-designed icebreaker can help build rapport and break down power barriers to promote sharing. We hosted failure gameshows at international conferences to act as (rather elaborate) icebreakers. They even had prizes!

Practical tips on sharing failures! #WASHTwitter

Thanks for a fun failures week, Radix crew! For more, check out our Frontiers article: sanitationlearninghub.org/resource/learn… Follow WASH Failures for WASH failures or me Dr Becky Sindall for occasional research GIF threads! Failure to switch off is a big issue in research so have a relaxed Sunday!

Vindication!!

Well, this has aged well. engineeringforchange.org/news/words-fai…

"Failure in #WASH is difficult to talk about, but if we can learn from one another, we can continuously improve our work.“ Such an important topic taken up by The Sanitation Learning Hub ! Read and download! sanitationlearninghub.org/resource/learn…

New open access paper out with Dale Whittington on what we learnt teaching water + sanitation policy + economics & Coursera MOOCs (1/4): aetrjournal.org/UserFiles/file… UN-Water World Bank Water World Health Organization (WHO) @WASHLink @BEonthetoilet WASH Failures WASHwatch @oliver_kathryn Ofwat @NeilJefferyCEO