Compiled by Hayley Schram and Lindsay Denny (2021) Elevating the Role of Cleaners in Healthcare Facilities: A Guidance Note

One of the largest constraints that cleaners experience is the lack of WASH, and formal training on IPC, PPE, and hand hygiene. A needs assessment study conducted in 56 healthcare facilities throughout Bangladesh, India, The Gambia, and Zanzibar reported that on average less than a third delivered formal training to their cleaning staff. 4 Training is essential in ensuring a safe and clean healthcare environment, […]

CWIS-FSM Support Cell, DPHE (2021) SFD Lite Report Panchagarh Municipality, Bangladesh

The Panchagarh District is in the northern part of Bangladesh. Panchagarh city, the district headquarter of Panchagarh is situated in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. The city stands on the bank of Korotoya. The city is 415 km away from the capital city Dhaka. It is well connected with road, water, and railways. The town was declared Municipality in 1985. Panchagarh is one of the 53 district-level […]

CWIS-FSM Support Cell, DPHE (2021) SFD Lite Report Kishoreganj Municipality Bangladesh

Kishoreganj is a city and the district headquarters of Kishoreganj District in the division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kishoreganj is a fast-growing city, which is 97.8 km away from North-East of Dhaka. It is beside the Narashunda River and is well connected with road, water, and railways. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared Municipality in 1869. Kishoreganj is […]

CWIS-FSM Support Cell, DPHE (2021) SFD Lite Report Dinajpur Municipality Bangladesh

Dinajpur, a city of north-western Bangladesh and the district headquarter of Dinajpur district is situated in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It is located 413 km Northwest of Dhaka. It is bounded by Punarbhaba River on the west. Dinajpur is historically and culturally a very important city in North Bengal. It is one of the oldest towns in the sub-continent and was declared Municipality in 1869. Dinajpur […]

UNICEF Pacific Multi Country Office (2021) Formative Evaluation of UNICEF Three Star Approach for WASH in Schools in the Pacific

The WASH in Schools (WinS) Three Star Approach (TSA) has been adopted in Fiji (from a pilot in 2015 but now is at scale), Kiribati (atoll island first implementation from 2015 to 2018), Solomon Islands (since 2016), in Vanuatu (since 2017) and 2018 introduction in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The evaluation aims to understand whether WinS TSA is achieving the intended results and […]

Timor-Leste Ministry of Health and UNICEF Timor-Leste (2021) Country-Led Formative Evaluation of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Timor-Leste (2012 – 2020)

This evaluation examines a broad national programme of ‘community-led total sanitation’ (CLTS) style sanitation interventions conducted in Timor-Leste by the government, NGOs and multi-lateral and bi-lateral stakeholders from 2012 to 2020. It was commissioned by the Government of Timor-Leste (GoTL) Ministry of Health (MoH) in collaboration with UNICEF Timor-Leste. The evaluation was conducted by FH Designs between December 2019 and March 2021, a period which […]

Salian, P., Bucovineanu, A. (2022) Bringing WASHaLOT 3.0 to scale // Production, Installation and Operations in Uganda

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for regular hand hygiene at a global level. Although the urgency of this context cannot be denied, the benefits from streamlining hand hygiene at a global scale are immense and go beyond the current pandemic response. WASHaLOT is an innovative group handwashing facility that has been adapted for the Ugandan context. It is a durable, cost effective, water-saving alternative to […]

UNICEF (2022) Evaluation of UNICEF’s WASH Early Recovery Project in Chitral, Pakistan

On July 16th 2015, flash floods triggered by Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) submerged various parts of the Chitral District; the northern district of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan. The floods destroyed houses, livestock and public infrastructure. The disaster claimed three lives and left 250,000 people without access to basic services and relief supplies. More than 60% of households were impacted with poor water quality after the […]

FIT FOR SCHOOL (2022) WASH in Schools massive open Online Course - Orientation Guide

This guide will provide insights on preconditions and principles for developing a national WinS MOOC based on the Philippines’ WinS MOOC experience, practical examples on structure, content and course outline of a typical WinS MOOC, and recommendations for adapting these processes in your institution’s context.

Onushandhani Creeds Ltd. (2021) SFD Lite Report Mirzapur Municipality, Tangail Bangladesh

Mirzapur municipality is one of the commercially significant towns under the Tangail District in Bangladesh. It is located about 54 Km northeast of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. It has an administrative area of about 8.58 sq. km. There are 9 wards in Mirzapur municipality. According to the population census in 2011 by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the population of Mirzapur municipality was 28,602 […]

CWIS-FSM Support Cell, DPHE (2022) SFD Lite Report Narsingdi Municipality Bangladesh

Narsingdi municipality stands on the bank of the Branch of the River Meghna and is located adjacent to the Dhaka-Sylhet National Highway and 57 km East of the capital city Dhaka. It is well connected with road, water, and railways. The city is well known for its small and medium industries, like textile mills, dyeing mills, agro-industries and other processing mills which are the remarkable […]

Onushandhani Creeds Ltd. (2021) SFD Lite Report Ghatail Municipality, Tangail Bangladesh

Ghatail Municipality is a sub-district town of Ghatail Upazilla under Tangail District, which is located about 33 Km North of Tangail Sadar Upazila and 114 Km northwest of Dhaka City. It is directly linked with the Dhaka-Tangail highway. The municipality is crossed over by Jhinai River. Ghatail beel (wetland) is another main water body beside the town. According to the population census in 2011 by […]

Kohler, L. & Spuhler, D. (2021) Papers to Practice SuSanA Working Group 1

A series where we take important sanitation-related publications and break them down in 30 minutes, making them more accessible to busy professionals working to deliver inclusive, safely managed sanitation services globally. We sit with authors and ask them who should know about the paper and what are the key points to be able to put these papers to practice. This series is co-hosted by CAWST […]

Waterkeyn, J. (2010) Hygiene Behaviour Change through the Community Health Club Approach A cost effective strategy to achieve the Millennium Developments Goals for improved Sanitation in Africa

Good hygiene and sanitation are critical for improving family health, but most rural communities in Africa have shown little inclination to change their traditional high risk behaviour patterns, resulting in high infant mortality due to preventable diseases. With the Millennium Development Goals seeking to halve the 2.4 billion people without sanitation by the year 2015, there is an urgent need to find cost-effective health promotion […]

Barbiche, J.C., Collins, O. (2020) Evidence-building for Cash and Markets for WASH in Emergencies Practices in Market-Based Programming in the Hygiene Sub-Sector

This report presents an overview of practices related to the use of market support and cash and voucher assistance (CVA) modalities for hygiene in humanitarian crises. These market-based approaches can have a number of advantages, such as improving the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency hygiene response while also supporting the existing local market systems that will continue to deliver hygiene items and services long after […]

Save the Children (2018) First 1000 Days Project: Barrier Analysis Report and Social and Behaviour Change Strategy

Sahin, M. (2011) Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for School Children in Emergencies. A Guidebook for Teachers. UNICEF.

WASH in Schools aims to support the provision of safe drinking water and improved sanitation facilities, and promotes lifelong health for children and their families. Ensuring access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in every school for every child can be a huge challenge, especially during emergencies. When disaster strikes, education is often disrupted as families become primarily focused on survival. Schools become shelters for […]

Thevos, A., Olsen, S. Rangel, J. M., Kaona, F. A. D., Tembo, M., Quick, R. E. (2002) Social Marketing and Motivational Interviewing as Community Interventions for Safe Water Behaviors Follow-up Surveys in Zambia

To address the need for innovative approaches to diarrhea prevention in developing countries, we conducted two studies in Zambia to compare the effect of social marketing alone (SM) with social marketing plus motivational interviewing (SM+MI) on the adoption and continued use of a household-based water chlorination and storage intervention called the safe water system (SWS). In Study 1, we conducted a baseline survey, implemented SM+MI […]

Rosenfeld, J., Berggren, R., Frerichs, L. (2021) A Review of the Community Health Club Literature Describing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Outcomes

The Community Health Club (CHC) model is a community-based health promotion program that utilizes water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) education as the first stage of a longitudinal development process. Although the CHC model has been implemented in fourteen countries over 20 years, this is the first review of the literature describing the model’s outcomes and impact. We conducted a review of the literature that provided […]

Rosenfeld, J. (2019) Social Capital and Community Health Clubs in Haiti

One challenge facing WASH programs is that water and sanitation infrastructure are generally collective goods, while WASH behaviors involve individual responsibilities nested within collective norms. Social capital is theorized to facilitate collective action and enhance the diffusion of WASH-related behavioral interventions by enhancing social cohesion and collective action. We used a mixed methods study to assess the relationship between social capital and a Community Health […]