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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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This report provides details of activities and campaigns organized by UNICEF Maharashtra Department of Technical & Higher Education, GoM, NSS Maharashtra, for raising awareness amongst students and introducing innovative interventions to prevent environmental degradation and harm, across major Universities of Maharashtra, with the support of MVA, DoECC, GOM and Maharashtra Urban WASH-ES …
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Shinyanga Municipality is the headquarters of Shinyanga Region and is in the northern area of Tanzania. It lies between latitudes 30 30' and 30 45' South and longitudes 330 20’ and 330 35’ East, about 1,000 kilometres from Dar es Salaam and 165 kilometres from Mwanza City.
According to Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS, 2018), the projected population of Shinyanga …
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Ng’hong’ohna Ward (which covers practically the same area as Ng’hong’ohna Mtaa) is one of the 41 wards located in Dodoma City. It is located on the south-eastern part of the city covering an area of 130.675 m² (Dodoma Municipal Council, 2017). The area is characterized by a broad upland plain and located between hills bordering the University of Dodoma.
The current total population …
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Moulvibazar is a fast-growing city, which is 203 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Manu River and well connected with road and water. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared Municipality in 1987.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the Moulvibazar Population was 56,537. The urban population growth in …
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Jhalokathi Municipality is a fast-growing city, which is 208 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Bishkhali River and well connected with road and water. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared Paurashava in 1875. Jhalokathi is one of the 53 district level municipalities in the country.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of …
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Kamalamai Municipality was declared as municipality in 1996. It is in Sindhuli District, Bagmati Province in the Central South Nepal. It is divided into 14 political wards.
The municipality has a total population of 71,016 with 34,416 males and 36,700 females (Census 2021, n.d.). Out of total wards, ward number 6 has the largest population (12,498) while ward number 3 has the least population …
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Manikganj is a fast-growing city, which is 54 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Kaliganga River and well connected with road and waterway. It is one of the oldest towns and was declared Municipality in 1972.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the Manikganj city population was 71,698. The urban population growth is 2% per year. …
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This page is a collection of the most important factsheets provided by the Water Supply and Sanitation for Refugee Settlements and Host Communities in Northern Uganda project (WatSSUP), implemented by GIZ, which is funded by the German Government through the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
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Mymensingh is a fast-growing city, which is 112 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Brahmaputra River and well connected with road, water, and railways. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared City Corporation in 2018.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the Mymensingh city population was 512,062. The …
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The USAID Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability (WASHPaLS) project conducted a review of the scientific and grey literature, complemented by dozens of key informant interviews with researchers and field implementers, to synthesize the latest understanding of key pathways of fecal microbe ingestion by infants and young children (IYC) and their links to …
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Sanitation workers play a vital role in maintaining cleanliness and safety within the sanitation chain, a crucial aspect of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. However, they often face poor working conditions, social and economic marginalization, and significant health risks, including the threat of infection and injury, sometimes leading to fatalities, compromising their dignity and …
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Kushtia is a fast-growing city located along the Dhaka- N1 and Rajshahi-Kushtia highway and 171 km West of Dhaka. It is beside the Madhumati River and is well connected with road, water, and railways. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared a municipality in 1869.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the Kushtia …
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Sanitation workers play a vital role in maintaining cleanliness and safety within the sanitation chain, a crucial aspect of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. However, they often face poor working conditions, social and economic marginalization, and significant health risks, including the threat of infection and injury, sometimes leading to fatalities, compromising their dignity and …
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Kurigram is a fast-growing city, which is 339 km away from the Dhaka. It is beside the Dharla River and is well connected with road and railways. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared Municipality in 1972. Kurigram is one of the 53 district level municipalities in the country.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics …
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Gulariya, a municipality in Nepal's Bardiya district, was established in 2053 BS (1997 AD) and later restructured in 2073 (2016 AD). Comprising 12 political wards over 118.21 square kilometres in the southern plains of the Terai region and positioned 35 kilometres west of Nepalgunj, Gulariya has an elevation of 187 metres.
The 2021 national population and housing census reported a population …
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This desk review examines the refereed and gray literature on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), with the central objective of assessing the knowledge base on best practices and identifying evidence gaps to inform the project’s research agenda (to generate findings that improve policy and practice).
The review offers a description of the CLTS intervention, tracing its evolution in theory …
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Sanitation workers play a vital role in maintaining cleanliness and safety within the sanitation chain, a crucial aspect of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6. However, they often face poor working conditions, social and economic marginalization, and significant health risks, including the threat of infection and injury, sometimes leading to fatalities, compromising their dignity and …
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Khagrachari is a fast-growing city, which is 273 km away from the Dhaka city. It is beside the Chengi River and well connected with road and water. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared a Municipality in 1984. Khagrachari is one of the 53 district level municipalities in the country.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics …
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Jashore (previously known as Jessore) is a fast-growing city located along the Dhaka-Khulna highway and 275 km Southern-Western of Dhaka. The Bhairab River passes through the middle of the city and is well connected with road, water, and railways.
According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the population of Jashore Municipality was 201,796. The …
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Two and a half years after the first ecological sanitation conference in Bonn, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH and the International Water Association (IWA) jointly organised and held the 2nd International Symposium on ecological sanitation “ecosan – closing the loop” in April 2003 in Lübeck.
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Shivaraj Municipality, established in 2014 through the merger of eight Village Development Committees (VDCs) in the Kapilvastu district, Nepal, encompasses 248.08 square kilometres.
The 2021 census reports a population of 84,810 in 16,241 households, with a gender distribution of 51.3% male and 48.7% female.
The SFD graphic shows that 49% of the excreta or faecal sludge generated are safely …
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Sanitation workers provide an essential public service to ensure cleanliness and safety along the sanitation chain. This is key to achieving the ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, although poor working conditions, social and economic marginalization, high risk of infection and injury even death, mean it is often at the cost of their dignity, health and life. Strengthening social …
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Direct ingestion of animal and human feces in soil as well as exploratory mouthing by infants and young children remain underemphasized pathways of fecal pathogen exposure impacting child health and growth, as highlighted in the 2018 Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability Program (WASHPaLS) desk review, “Toward a Hygienic Environment for Infants and Young …
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Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is essential to understanding the barriers, successes, and progress made toward achieving area-wide sanitation and hygiene outcomes. However, M&E can be challenging to undertake, given significant and competing demands on limited local government resources and capacities. USAID’s WASHPaLS #2 area-wide sanitation (AWS) desk review identified significant knowledge …
