UBU is a voluntary, technically founded NGO working within the field of water supply and environmental science. We help civil societies in developing countries to improve living conditions for poor people through promotion of technologies that are socially, culturally, environmentally and economically sustainable. We work in India and Tanzania.
UBU is running a development project on disaster preparedness in India. It is carried out with our Indian partner organisation, JGVK, with funding from CISU. We have worked in India since 2004, within the subjects of arsenic contaminated groundwater, health, hygiene and sanitation, groundwater depletion and flooding from cyclones and monsoon rainfalls.
UBU has worked in Tanzania since 2006 on two development projects with several local community based organisations. We have worked within the topics of sanitation, sustainable water supply, health and hygiene improvements. At the moment we are preparing a new project together with CBHCC near Arusha.
In the first week of April 2018, a final evaluation of the Resilience Project was successfully carried out by Lea, Benedikte and Carlos, our external evaluator. After more than 3,5 years, the Resilience Project has produced many significant results in the Sundarbans which was documented and collected by the team in collaboration with participating groups … Continue reading
UBU and our Indian partner organisation, JGVK, just handed in an application to the Civil Society Fund for a new development intervention on sustainable water resources management in West Bengal, India. On a specific level, the project is about balancing needs and use for households and irrigation. The project is expected to cover a large area in the … Continue reading
Emil, Kristine S and Henrik visited the resilience project area last week in order to plan and start up collection of data for the coming up project evaluation in April, and to plan for a new project with JGVK. The 3 years and 9 months resilience project comes to an end in May, and it … Continue reading
