Blue Gold - Building African Solutions for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Blue Gold is a series of Field Notes and Leaflets, published by the Water and Sanitation Program-Africa Region, which highlights effective African actions which have worked at scale in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. To the new generation of parliamentarians, sector leaders, administrators and individuals tackling the water and sanitation challenge in the region, the Blue Gold series brings the message: Africa's future solutions will be African solutions.

To often we encounter negative images of Africa-poverty, conflict, famine. This series aims to tell a different story by tapping the rich vein of positive and innovative experience within the field of water, sanitation and hygiene in the continent- Blue Gold.

Topics covered in the Blue Gold series include:
- Water and Sanitation Sector Reform in Uganda and Ghana
- National Water and Sanitation Programme in South Africa
- National Sanitation Programmes in Mozambique and Lesotho
- Rural Piped Water Supplies in Ethiopia, Malawi and Kenya
- Strategic Urban Sanitation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Household-level Water Supply in Zimbabwe
- Urban Water Supply in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
- Hygiene Promotion in Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe