Hygiene information and practices play a critical role in preventing diseases, particularly among children. Hygiene behaviors practiced in the household have been linked to development outcomes such as...
Access to proper sanitation helps keep children healthy, but millions of people in the developing world still practice open defecation, putting children at risk. Diarrhea, which can result from the spread...
The association between hygiene, sanitation, and health is well documented, yet thousands of children die each year from exposure to contaminated fecal matter. At the same time, evidence on the effectiveness...
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled A randomized, controlled study of a rural sanitation behavior change program in Madhya Pradesh, India, conducted between...
Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation...
There is increasing interest in improving hand washing in low- and middle-income countries. The validity of rapid hand washing measures was evaluated by comparing them to hand washing behavior measured...
Hand washing with soap has been shown to reduce diarrhea and respiratory disease, the two leading causes of childhood deaths in low- and middle-income settings. Global scaling up hand washing was initiated...
This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation...
Poor sanitation and open defecation are thought to be a major cause of diarrhea and intestinal parasite infections among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal...
Since 2007, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has provided technical assistance to local and national governments implementing large rural sanitation and handwashing promotion programs in various...
As more resources are being allocated to impact evaluation (IE) in the context of development programs, the need to map out the utilization and influence of evaluations has been increasingly highlighted...
This is the second note in a monthly series on government monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems led by the PREM Poverty Reduction and Equity Group under the guidance of Jaime Saavedra, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo...
This is the second note in a monthly series on government monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems led by the PREM Poverty Reduction and Equity Group under the guidance of Jaime Saavedra, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo...
This is the second note in a monthly series on government monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems led by the PREM Poverty Reduction and Equity Group under the guidance of Jaime Saavedra, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo...
Global scaling up handwashing is a Water and Sanitation (WSP) project focused on applying innovative behavior-change approaches to improve handwashing with soap behavior among women of reproductive age...
Global Scaling up Rural Sanitation is a Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) project focused on learning how to combine the approaches of Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), behavior change communications...
This reporting period marks the beginning of the final year of implementation of the Global Scaling up Handwashing with Soap (HWWS) project. It represents a critical phase, a time for the teams not only...
This reporting period marks the beginning of the final year of implementation of the Global Scaling up Sanitation Project (TSSM) in India, Indonesia, and Tanzania, countries where the project is currently...