La 9e Journée Mondiale du Lavage des Mains a été commémorée en différé le 18 octobre dernier à Bilanga dans la province de la Gnagna dans la région Est du Burkina Faso. Read more...
Handwashing after contact with excreta is poorly practised globally, despite the likely positive health benefits. Read more...
Global Handwashing Day is an annual global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Celebrated annually on October 15, Global Handwashing Day was... Read more...
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week. Read more...
After a decade of emphasis on accelerating water and sanitation infrastructure development, South Africa circles back to behaviour change. 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...
A credit scheme helps families to build household toilets in northern Ghana. A story about action learning supported by the Dutch WASH Alliance. Read more...
Poster sharing the results of a hygiene cost effectiveness study in Bhutan. Read more...
Behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks can explain half of global mortality and more than one-third of global DALYs... Read more...
The report is a photo catalogue of handwashing facilities for schools constructed in Philippines, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Cambodia as part of the GIZ... Read more...
How can you get 110 million children to wash their hands before meals? India has the answer. Read more...
Handwashing with soap is still the most effective way to reduce the spread of diarrheal infections. Today on Global handwashing day, hygiene and sanitation expert Alana Potter talks about key messages from IRC's experience how to make hygiene promotion work. Read more...
This study describes the current status of sanitation and hygiene in the Samtse district, Bhutan, where the SSH4A programme is being implemented. It... Read more...
1st August 2015: The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes hygiene in it's vision statement and as a target. Read more...
In Bangladesh, the largest NGO in the world BRAC is working its way up to help the country to get proper sanitation. It has reached more than half of the population since the start nine years ago. It is one of the world's largest sanitation implementation programmes. IRC works with BRAC to make it... Read more...
On May 5th each year the World Health Organization calls on health workers to wash their hands. Read more...
In rural Cambodia newborns risk infections both in health centres and at home because hygiene is poor and water and sanitation facilities are unsafe... Read more...
Les programmes d'assainissement se concentrent en général sur la construction d'ouvrages, au détriment d'une promotion soutenue pour leur usage. Or, cette dernière peut faire plus pour la santé que n'importe quelle construction. N'importe quelle? Et si certains ouvrages favorisaient l'adoption de... Read more...
Etude de cas des latrines EcoSan dans le cadre du projet d'appui à l'assainissement familial dans 12 communes rurales des régions du Plateau Central... Read more...