While there are linkages between the preventive and curative aspects of health and WASH there are constraints which prevent them from working... 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...
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...
An innovative approach to sustain open defecation free (ODF) status in rural areas by making people agents of change in their communities. Read more...
Dettol Banega Swachh India is a five year campaign to promote hand washing and make 200 villages open defecation free (ODF) by 2019. Read more...
Sharing a sanitation facility with just one to two other households can increase the risk of moderate-to-severe diarrhea (MSD) in young children,... Read more...
New steps to make Swachh Bharat, or Clean India Campaign, a reality Read more...
India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has deviated from convention and made sanitation a central theme of his Independence Day speech 2014. He has announced a programme of Clean India to make the country Open Defecation Free (ODF) by 2019. In that year India will celebrate the 150 th birth... Read more...