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The Sanitation Learning Hub, previously known as the CLTS (Community-Led Total Sanitation) Knowledge Hub.
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Exploring Female-headed Households’ Sanitation Needs, Tasikmalaya
(Sanitation Learning Hub, 2023-09-15)Female-headed households often get left behind in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programming and policy. This SLH Learning Paper presents findings and recommendations for action, from the participatory video ... -
The Menopause: Hidden WASH Needs
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08)This SLH Learning Paper provides practical guidance for the WASH sector on meeting the additional needs of women going through the (peri)menopause, a phase of life rarely spoken about. The paper outlines what the perimenopause ... -
Adapting Menstrual Health Interventions for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Emergencies
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-08)The Bishesta campaign – a menstrual health intervention for people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers in Nepal, was developed to help improve menstrual health for this population in non-humanitarian settings ... -
A Participatory Assessment for Climate-Induced WASH Vulnerabilities in Bangladesh
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-07)This SLH Learning Brief presents work undertaken by WaterAid Bangladesh and Rupantar in collaboration with the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH), at the Institute of Development Studies, and the University of Technology Sydney ... -
Learning from ODF Districts in Mozambique
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-31)With 30 per cent of Mozambique’s rural population still practicing open defecation (JMP 2021), the country urgently needs to accelerate results if it is to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6.2. After over a decade of ... -
Adaptation of the Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) Protocol During the COVID-19 Response
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)Before COVID-19, Mozambique’s Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) protocol, introduced in 2008 and referenced in the Strategy of Rural Sanitation 2021-2030, broadly aligned with the original approach proposed by Kar and ... -
Learning from ODF Districts in Mozambique
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-06)Mozambique has committed to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation by 2030. Much progress is still needed, ... -
Immersive Research for Safer Sanitation in Bihar and Maharashtra, India
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05)In 2022, FINISH Mondial and the Sanitation Learning Hub conducted a participatory and immersive research study to understand ground realities and lived experiences of sanitation and hygiene access in Nandurbar district, ... -
Learning From and Preventing Failure in WASH
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-02)Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) failures continue to be discussed mostly off the record, with professionals the world over repeating one another’s mistakes. Failure is difficult to talk about, but WASH failures have ... -
Mainstreaming Climate Risks into Rural Sanitation Programming in Lao PDR
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-10)Despite climate change being a major concern for the sanitation sector, rural sanitation remains neglected in the wider discussions of climate impacts on WASH services. Also, the voices of vulnerable individuals, households, ... -
Inclusive Participatory Research Through Photovoice: A Study on WASH and Nutrition in Afar, Ethiopia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-10)Designing effective interventions requires the inclusion and buy-in of beneficiary communities; however, because of constraints and context, fully participatory research can be challenging. The Afar people of northern ... -
Impact of Climate Hazards on Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Practices in Burkina Faso
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2022-08)Despite climate change being a major concern for the sanitation sector, rural sanitation remains neglected in the wider discussions of climate impacts on WASH services. Also, the voices of vulnerable individuals, ... -
Emerging Practice for the Engagement of Men and Boys in WASH
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-11)This document accompanies Frontiers of Sanitation: Engaging men for gender transformative WASH, Part 2, which explores the extent to which engaging men and boys in WASH processes is leading to transformative change in ... -
Engaging Men and Boys for Gender-Transformative WASH
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2022-07-11)This issue of Frontiers of Sanitation explores the extent to which engaging men and boys in WASH processes is leading to transformative change in gender roles, attitudes, and sustainable change in reducing gender inequalities ... -
WASH and Older People
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03)There are estimated to be around 900 million older adults (aged 60 years and above), around 13 per cent of the world population. The COVID-19 pandemic helped shed light on the specific needs of older people as a group ... -
Bringing WASH into the Water–Energy–Food Nexus in Humanitarian Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-02-16)This paper examines the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus in a humanitarian context, with a specific focus on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). It highlights the complex and non-linear interactions that WASH has with other ... -
Local Government Leadership in Sanitation and Hygiene: Experiences and Learnings from West Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-31)Between July and October 2021, the Sanitation Learning Hub worked with government representatives and development partners to develop, share, and cross-analyse case studies looking at local system and government strengthening ... -
Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-31)This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania. It argues that the concept of gender, used on its own, is not enough to understand the complexities of sanitation, ... -
Accessible Sanitation in the Workplace – Important Considerations for Disability-Inclusive Employment in Nigeria and Bangladesh
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-27)This paper explores the relationship between accessible sanitation and disability-inclusive employment in Bangladesh and Nigeria. Both countries have sanitation and hygiene challenges as well as disability-inclusive ... -
Comprehensive Social Protection Programming: What is the Potential for Improving Sanitation Outcomes?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-01-27)Millions of people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities, undermining progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 that calls for adequate and equitable sanitation for all. Efforts to ...
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