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Monitoring sanitation campaigns: Targets, Reporting and Realism

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Many governments in Asia and Africa have set ambitious target dates for their countries becoming open defecation free (ODF). Some have...

Monitoring India’s National Sanitation Campaign (2014–2020)

In 2011, India had more phone users (around 54 per cent of households) and television access (33 per cent) in rural areas than people...

Nepal Sanitation Movement Lessons Learnt on Targets and Monitoring

Many governments in Asia and Africa have set ambitious target dates for their countries becoming open defecation free (ODF). Some have...

Acknowledging and Learning from Different Types of Failure

Published by: Sage

The challenges faced in sanitation and hygiene programmes are numerous and complex. Failures are inevitable. From our experience of...

Strengthening Sub-national Systems for Area-wide Sanitation and Hygiene

For some time, local government leadership has been recognised as key to ensuring sustainability and scale and it is an important...

Local Government Leadership for Sanitation and Hygiene in West Africa

This rapid desk-based study focused on local governments, given their increasing importance in ensuring improved access to Sanitation &...

Rural Sanitation and Climate Change: Putting Ideas into Practice

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Sharing of experiences and thoughts on addressing climate change impacts on sanitation at a local level are critical to evolving the...

Improving Rural Sanitation in Challenging Contexts

Of the two billion people worldwide lacking access to at least basic sanitation, seven out of ten live in rural areas. Progress has been...

Rural Sanitation Programming in Challenging Contexts: A Desk Based Review

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This report summarises the findings of a desk review on ‘Rural Sanitation in Challenging Contexts’. The study sought to identify...

How WASH Programming has Adapted to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Since first appearing at the end of 2019, the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has spread at a pace and scale not seen before. On 11...