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Lack of access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services has a huge impact on citizens in Uganda. In this article, Comfort Hajra Mukasa, Programme Manager, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene at Amref Health Africa, outlines the impact, and describes how connecting WASH and health systems has had... Read more...
Lessons learnt from WASH First COVID-19 Response Project in Ethiopia Read more...
Findings from a scoping literature review on handwashing and mental health in humanitarian crises. Read more...
A design competition initiative of USAID Transform WASH Read more...
Guest blogger Srilekha Chakraborty , 2020 winner of the Ton Schouten Award, shares stories from the ground on the pandemic in India. Read more...
The Aga Khan Foundation is organising WASH interventions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in response to the pandemic. Read more...
Since the coronavirus began spreading throughout the world, few things have been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our activities to develop markets for WASH products and services are no exception. Read more...
Material prepared by a team from the Ghana National Development Planning Commission and IRC Ghana Clement Akazeire Nyaaba, head teacher of Foe Primary School B, being interviewed in front of water tower that serves schools in the town His school with 186 pupils is one of three that shared a single... Read more...
Who'd have guessed the biggest news item so far in 2020 would involve being told how to wash your hands? Yet it has been – at least for those of us who can, who have access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and can afford or find such luxuries as hand sanitiser or soap. Read more...
For decades, people in Uganda have been encouraged to wash their hands as a way of preventing the spread of diseases. However, the percentage of the population accessing and using hand washing facilities remains low at only 36%. What are the challenges? Read more...
Roel Blesgraaf looks back on day 2 of the Africa Water Week. Read more...
How can you get 110 million children to wash their hands before meals? India has the answer. 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...
IRC updated its ladder to measure effectiveness of hygiene interventions, which is breaking down hygiene practices according to categories, and that can be used to compare the "before" and "after" behaviour of a beneficiary, for a given intervention. Read more...
IRC a mis à jour son échelle de mesure d'efficacité des interventions d'hygiène, qui décompose les pratiques d'hygiène en catégories permettant de situer les comportements d'un bénéficiaire entre un "avant" et un "après" une intervention. Read more...
IRC and the BRAC WASH programme's efforts in reaching out to men through the tea stall approach as informal meeting spaces for men to talk about hygiene in Bangladesh. Read more...