The toolkit is an open-source set of materials and ideas to help engineers plan and deliver infrastructure for international development, poverty alleviation and the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It's a first in the civil engineering field and the work of ICE Past President Paul Jowitt and his Apprentices.
How can you access it?The full toolkit is now freely available to all engineers worldwide. For more information on the toolkit, please email apprentices@ice.org.uk
"Engineering is at the heart of most human endeavour, and to integrate it in this way to specifically address the problems of the developing world is admirable and to be encouraged. I salute this brilliant and original idea."
Bill Nighy, Actor and Oxfam Global Ambassador
The cards on sustainable infrastructure are particularly clear about the challenge we need to help address to ensure access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene.
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| Source: Morella, Foster and Banerjee 2008 |
Sanitation: world is off track for MDG target
At the current rate of progress (2010), the world will miss the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target by 13%. An estimated 1.1 billion people still defecate in the open, excluding those with unimproved latrines. Unless huge efforts are made, the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation will not be halved by 2015.
WHO/Unicef JMP Report (2010)
