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The Sanitation Workers Knowledge + Learning Hub is the best source for all current news, trends, articles and updates on sanitation workers rights around the world.

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WASH in Schools Checklists to manage the spread of COVID-19 in schools. Checklist for 1) SCHOOL ENTRANCES, 2) CLASSROOMS, 3) TOILETS

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WASH in Schools Posters to manage the spread of COVID-19 in schools and colleges

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WASH in Schools Posters to manage the spread of COVID-19 in colleges.

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WASH in Schools Posters to manage the spread of COVID-19 in colleges.

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WASH in Schools Posters to manage the spread of COVID-19 in primary schools.

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WASH in Schools Posters to manage the spread of COVID-19 in primary schools.

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Barishal is a fast-growing city, which is 235 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Kirtankhola River and well connected with road and water. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent, established as Pourashava in 1869 and was declared City Corporation in 2002. Barishal is one of the 12 City Corporations in the country.

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Barguna is a fast-growing city, which is 319 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Khakdon River and well connected with road and water. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared municipality in 1973. Barguna is one of the 53 district level municipality in the country.

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Narok town is Narok county’s capital city which is the largest city on the way to Maasai Mara National Reserve from Nairobi. It became a municipality in October 2019 due to the rapidly growing population. Figure 2 shows the official municipality boundary and demographical data from the latest census in 2019. The municipality covers the area of Narok Township (Narok Town & Oleleshwa), Nkareta …

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This SFD covers the administrative “National Capital District” of Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea. According to the 2011 Census, the population was 364,125 and the population growth rate was 3.3%. The predicted population in 2020 was 503,795, no further census data are available. This is likely to be around 65,800 households. Most of the population growth is within the …

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The SuSanA Secretariat and the Interim Steering Committee (ISC) officially announced the Election Results of the first Global Steering Committee (GSC) on Friday, 21st of October, from 2-2.30 pm CEST.

Thanks to the 247 SuSanA Members that casted their vote, for supporting us in this process! We hope to achieve an even higher turnout in the next GSC elections.

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The rural water supply scheme (WSS) in Sri Lanka is threatened by multiple climate risks such as flash floods, droughts, landslides, and salinity intrusion. Those rural water supply schemes are managed by Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) and Local Authorities and offer water to 12% of the people who live in marginalized areas through piped systems. Even though Water Safety Planning (WSP) is …

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Menstrual Health & Hygiene Management (MHH) is a topic of concern for health, education, human rights, water, and sanitation sector. In Pakistan, more than 42 million (roughly 22%) girls aged between 10 to 19 years are at menstruation age1. Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children with an estimated 22.8 million children, of which the majority are girls. The net …

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Nepal has relatively high inland water resources and is geographically diverse. It is topographically divided into three regions: high Himalaya, middle Hill, and low land Terai. Due to such diversity, the drinking water services are different in all regions. In Himalayas and Hilly regions, water supply systems are mainly through gravity flow whereas hand-pumps and deep boring are in Terai. As per …

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The right to water and sanitation entitles everyone to have access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use. In 2010, the UN General Assembly and the Human Rights Council recognized clean drinking water and safe sanitation to be human rights, essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights. Additionally, …

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Water is one of the most important natural resources of the nation. Nepal has an abundance of water resources, including snowpacks, rivers, springs, lakes, and groundwater. Rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, springs, and groundwater are the major sources of drinking water. Tap or piped water, tube wells or hand pumps, covered or uncovered wells, spout water, rainwater collection, and river or …

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Access to safe water and sanitation is essential for unlocking economic development and improving the health and education of all. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No. 6 aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) also contributes to numerous other goals, including those relating to nutrition, health, …

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Chhattisgarh is a state in central India. Water contamination has always been a matter of grave concern in numerous areas of Chhattisgarh. Groundwater here faces contamination with fluoride, iron, turbidity, arsenic, nitrate, etc. Monitoring groundwater quality is essential through representative sampling in different hydrological units. The chemical water quality is monitored by Central Ground …

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Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) relates to how girls and women manage their monthly menstruation and require access to information about menstruation, clean and safe menstrual absorbents, amenities, and facilities such as toilets and water, and waste management to maintain hygiene. MHM in general is poor in India due to a low level of knowledge and many misconceptions about it. In recent …

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The Royal Government of Bhutan and in particular, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has been concerned with the high prevalence of sanitation and hygiene-related diseases. This was largely due to low coverage of hygienic pour-flush toilets; high prevalence of inferior quality pit toilets (without slab/cover) which were unsanitary and unhygienic; and households without toilets. The Bhutan Multiple …

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In August 2017, thousands of Rohingya flee their homes in Myanmar and arrived at Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. As of April 2022, there were 925,380 refugees accommodated in 34 camps around the towns of Ukhiya and Teknaf. Rohingya refugees and host communities in Cox’s Bazar live with inadequate water and sanitation facilities resulting in adverse health impacts. Besides this, such huge influxes of …

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Bangladesh is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 166 million people in an area of 147,600 square kilometres making it one of the most densely populated countries in the world.

About a million Rohingyas have fled due to the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh. The refugees are in temporary settlements in hilly areas of Cox’s …

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Globally, at least two billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces1. As result of microbial contamination with faeces, it poses the greatest risk to drinking-water safety. In 2010, the UN General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. Everyone has the right to sufficient, continuous, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable …

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According to Joint Monitoring Programme, 58.5% have safely managed services for drinking water in 2020. One in five households has to spend more than 30 minutes fetching water from an outside source. The statistics also suggest a serious gap in sanitation facilities; about one-third of the households (31%) use unimproved toilet facilities; 22% of households use pit latrines without slabs, and 3% …

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Adolescence is a vital period for human development as life enters a new phase with the onset of menstruation for girls. This new change sometimes leads many adolescents to experience stigma, bullying and social exclusion, also introducing them to new vulnerabilities. In many parts of Bangladesh, menstruation is a taboo and has myths attached to it which can lead to poor personal hygiene and …

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The project database contains nearly 400 sanitation projects of many different organizations dealing with research, implementation, advocacy, capacity development etc. Advanced filtering functions and a global map are also available. Information on how and why this database was created is here.

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Shit flow diagrams (SFDs) help to visualize excreta management in urban settings. Access SFDs and more through the SFD Portal.

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