About Skybird
With 01.12.2018 Austrian Red Cross together with its partners embarked on an exciting 5-years regional WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) capacity strengthening programme in East Africa.
It is the overall aim of The Skybird Programme to contribute to improved living conditions – incl. health, environment and livelihood – in East Africa through increased innovation, strengthened capacities and partnerships of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (RCRC) movement in WASH and related fields to enable more gender sensitive and effective WASH service delivery.
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Learning Plattform
Our go-to tool to discuss technical issues with fellow Red Cross and Red Crescent WASH practitioners.
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Latest updates and learnings
How to host a virtual Design Thinking workshop for 6 different countries during a pandemic
Written by Priyanka Patel, Innovations Lead at Kenya Red Cross Society Design, a word that is always associated with the imagination of a pen or a drawing, and an artistic piece. In the world of innovation, we design to apply creativity, imagination, hidden leadership...
Skybirds infront of the curtain: Aman Arareso
My name is Aman Ararso, I’m 35 years old and I'm married. I’m a Social Worker by profession (Post-graduate in Development Management) with a background in Sociology and Social Anthropology. Before joining ERCS-West Arsi Zone branch in 2019, I was working in different...
How Rwanda Red Cross connected the use of human urine to food security
Written by Placide Mutangana, WASH Coordinator at Rwanda Red Cross, and Vanessa Hausegger, Skybird WASH Network Facilitator at Austrian Red Cross The government of Rwanda launched a school feeding program in day-schools to reduce hunger and malnutrition among the...