How government, development partners and private businesses can successfully implement market-based sanitation. Read more...
Learning Note exploring the key challenges faced by private sector WASH enterprises Read more...
IRC Burkina celebrated both Global Handwashing Day and World Toilet Day on Friday, November 19, 2021, in Tenkodogo. This public event was organised for the general public and schools. Read more...
The case of Kijura Town Council in Kabarole District, Uganda. Read more...
While there are linkages between the preventive and curative aspects of health and WASH there are constraints which prevent them from working... Read more...
A workshop delivers prototypes of more affordable sanitation products that meet the needs of lower income households in Lowland Ethiopia. Read more...
Facilitating the development of sustainable sanitation and hygiene markets whereby households have access to broader range of quality, affordable and... Read more...
Open defecation was still rife in 2015 in Bongo District. Eight out of ten people were practising open defecation. The District Assembly together with WaterAid Ghana and partners took action to change this. By 2020 the district was showing strong progress thanks to sensitisation and triggering... Read more...
Bongo District in Upper East Region, is one of the driest areas of Ghana with a population of just over 103,000 people. More than 30 boreholes had to be taken out of use because of dangerously high levels of fluoride in some underground water, causing damage to the bones and teeth of the people who... Read more...
Material prepared by a team from the Ghana National Development Planning Commission and IRC Ghana The Assembly WASH team went from house to house, providing toilets for those who applied. Demand soon outstripped supply – reflecting that the community was ready for change but resources were in short... Read more...
An analysis of the government's 2020-21 budget shows allocations may not be enough. Read more...
Sanitation criteria under the Model Healthy Village Program would best be harmonized with the Ministry of Health's Guideline for Open Defecation Free... Read more...
Improvements in sanitation access played a substantial role in increasing average child height. Read more...
The sanitation sector's focus must be on sustaining behaviour change and driving movement up the ladder, but the evidence base remains too thin and... Read more...
During a Watershed field trip, a community leader experiences a lightbulb moment. Read more...
Ten years after a community-led total sanitation campaign, intervention households continued to have higher rates of ever owning a latrine but... Read more...
Some 2.2 billion people around the world do not have safely managed drinking water services, 4.2 billion people do not have safely managed sanitation... Read more...
The majority of 'last mile" households still practising open defecation were those that were defiant', socially isolated or geographically isolated. Read more...
Adopting a systems approach of WASH services, which included strengthening institutional systems and service delivery models, while also introducing... Read more...