The PhD research of Mr. Thobias Bigambo (member of the PROVIDE program) received a funding of EUR 13,000 from the foundation Aqua for All for the construction of a sanitary biogas plant at Mbezi High school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

The latest PROVIDE workshop was completed in the Impala Hotal in Arusha (Tanzania) on 6-8 October 2008. In a hospitable environment, the central topics of the workshop included the

At the Arusha workshop, the PROVIDE program also reached its half-time. The general achievements apperaed to be a solid and mutually advantageous cooperation amongst the participants and steadily progressing PhD research trajectories. At the worskshop progress in Phd researches showed that most projects have reached the halfway of the field work phase and a few have goen beyond thatactivities have reached halfway. 2008 has seen the first scientific results presented at the Sanitation Challenge conference and more publications are on the way. The Arusha workshop will handle scientific progress of the PhD researches. The central objective is to aide researchers with a strengthened base to both field work and scientific publication writing. The Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, the ‘PrOACT tool’) method will be revisited and socio-economic-instruments will be explained. 

The workshop took place at the Impala Hotel in Arusha (Tanzania) on 6-8 October in 2008.