Introduction Background and Target Audience The Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technolo-gies was first published in 2008 during the Internation-al Year of Sanitation. Since then it has been...
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Global leaders welcome the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund as key tool to increase investment
GENEVA, 17 November – The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund will be critical to dramatically scale up investments to reach everyone with sanitation services, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General has...
Wash your hands, change your life – sanitation in a small village
By Alain TOSSOUNON, for WSSCC / SHF in Benin A small rural community in Benin has taken hand hygiene to heart even before the advent of the coronavirus. In the series to commemorate this year’s...
Madagascar schools weigh in on the reopening amid hygiene fears
By Hoby Randrianimanana, WSSCC/SHF Correspondent in Madagascar Hand hygiene is essential for breaking the transmission of diseases from one person to another. Yet, in public places where good hand...
Sustain India’s hard-earned hygiene gains with the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund
By Raza Naqvi, WSSCC / SHF correspondent in India Many of slum dwellers in India say their lives are upended due to the coronavirus pandemic and can’t afford to practice good handwashing. In the...
Sweeping benefits of keeping hands clean in Nigeria
By Olajide Adelana, WSSCC / SHF correspondent in Nigeria While the COVID-19 pandemic has reminded all of us that handwashing with soap is the cornerstone of infection control, rural villagers in...
Intensifying hand hygiene measures in Nepali communities
By Renu Kshetry, WSSCC - SHF Correspondent in Nepal As WSSCC celebrates this year’s Global Handwashing Day in the series of articles that follows achievements, challenges and innovations around hand...
‘Ghetto Youths’ innovates handwashing in Kampala slums
By Sheila Nduhukire, WSSCC/SHF correspondent in Uganda A flurry of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that good hand hygiene saves lives. But this simple act of washing hands remains...
Time to act now to end open defecation in Nigeria’s Benue State
By Olajide Adelana for WSSCC in Makurdi, Benue Sanitation experts in Nigeria sound the alarm that open defecation has the potential to erode the dignity and pride of people in the state of Benue,...
Sanitation and hygiene gaps grow in Madagascar; so do inequalities
By Hoby Randrianimanana, WSSCC Field Communication Correspondent in Madagascar Barely surviving with the little money she earns from selling recycled items, a 30-year-old single mother in...
Reviewing the catch-up plan to end open defecation in Benin
By: Alain Tossounon At the end of 2019, an evaluation of sanitation activities in Benin brought to light that certain communities had been returning to the practice of open defecation. That led the...
Open defecation free village brings health and pride to Benin Community
by Alain Tossounon At the onset of the first rains, villagers of Kaoukahou in Benin have seen many of their children suffer from a series of diseases. But not this year. A significant attributable...
1.3 million girls in Nepal to receive free menstrual supplies
KATHMANDU, Nepal - More than 1.3 million girls in Nepal will receive free sanitary pads through their community schools, the Government of Nepal announced the investment in menstrual health and...
Youth boost hygiene in Rajasthan's COVID-19 fight
BY: Raza Naqvi Determined to fight COVID-19 and improve health and hygiene practices, young people in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan are spreading awareness on sanitation and hygiene in their...
Keeping an informal settlement in Kenya safe from COVID-19
By: Kevin Mwanza On a hot and humid July afternoon, Jacob Omondi, a 67-year-old grandfather, sat in his one-roomed windowless mud-walled house in Kibera, an informal settlement on the outskirts of...
Strengthening WASH in health care facilities key to COVID-19 prevention in Kenya
By Kevin Mwanza, WSSCC Correspondent in Kenya Hand hygiene is the first line of defence in preventing the spread of disease in health care facilities. Yet, according to the World Health Organization...
Providing menstrual hygiene support to women and girls living in IDP camps
By WSSCC Summary: “In most IDP camps, the priority is to secure food for the family. Securing sanitary towels for a monthly flow is the last thing people worry about,” says Sunday Onyi, the driving...
Nigeria’s Accountant-General pledges improved funding for the WASH sector
The network of experts highlights the chronic lack of budget allocation for sanitation and hygiene. The Accountant-General of the Federation in Nigeria affirms that policies and programmes designed...
COVID-19: WSSCC-supported community schools in Nepal repurposed as good-hygiene quarantine centres
By Renu Kshetry KATHMANDU, Nepal – In Arghakhanchi district, 460 kilometres west of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, community schools are being repurposed as quarantine centres during the COVID-19...
Nigeria’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme to support poor women and girls and their menstrual health and hygiene
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Federal Government of Nigeria has pledged its support to protect the dignity of menstruating women and girls in Nigeria during a World Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD) event. The...