Safe disposal of children’s feces is as essential as that of adults’ feces. The Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) tracks progress toward the Millennium Development Goal 7 target...
Public sector funds alone are often insufficient to provide access to water for all. This briefdemonstrates how governments can increase the overall funding available to the water sector by strategically...
Widespread lack of improved sanitation in rural areas of Vietnam leads to stunting, i.e. children being too short for their age. It is not the water that makes children sick and malnourished, it is the...
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) has made progress in expanding sanitation services during the last decade, especially in urban areas. However, access to improved sanitation remains low in rural...
In Tanzania, 87.8 percent of households do not have access to improved sanitation, such as a latrine or a toilet that separates human feces from human contact. The situation is worse in rural areas, where...
Globally, the great majority of urban dwellers, especially poor people, rely for their sanitation on non-sewered systems that generate a mix of solid and liquid wastes generally termed fecal sludge. In...
Globally, the great majority of urban dwellers, especially poor people, rely for their sanitation on non-sewered systems that generate a mix of solid and liquid wastes generally termed fecal sludge. In...
Open defecation within a community harms the physical and cognitive development of children, even children living in households that use toilets themselves. Frequently digesting feces due to poor sanitation...
Most people living in rural Indian villages defecate openly outside, without using a toilet or latrine. In 2004, as a supplement to its ongoing Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC), the government of Maharashtra...
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is a multi-country study launched in 2007 as a response by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program to address major gaps in evidence among developing...
Preventable diseases exact a high cost among the world's poor. Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for two thirds of deaths among children under five. Handwashing with soap can prevent these...
Preventable diseases exact a high cost among the world's poor. Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for two thirds of deaths among children under five. Handwashing with soap can prevent these...
In 2010, WSP and the World Bank conducted a study to improve understanding of the financing of on-site sanitation at the household level through careful analysis of practical field experiences in a wide...
This report includes qualitative and quantitative analysis on behavioral outcomes such as latrine use, sharing, disposal of children's feces, operation and maintenance, and upgrading/ repair to understand...
This report includes qualitative and quantitative analysis on behavioral outcomes such as latrine use, sharing, disposal of children's feces, operation and maintenance, and upgrading/ repair to understand...
The study goals were, first, to identify the factors that influence the achievement and sustainability of collective behavior change by communities to become Open Defecation Free (ODF); and second, to...
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is a multi-country study launched in 2007 as a response by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program to address major gaps in evidence among developing...
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is a multi-country study launched in 2007 by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program to address major gaps in evidence among developing countries on the...
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is a multi-country study launched in 2007 as a response by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program to address major gaps in evidence among developing...
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI) is a multi-country study launched in 2007 as a response by the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program to address major gaps in evidence among developing...