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Madame Sika Kabore

By 2025 we should be at zero

Published on: 03/05/2021
The First Lady of Burkina Faso urges the number of health care facilities in sub-Sahara Africa without effective drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene services to be zero by 2025.

Participants at two-day workshop for GLAAS Focal Points from Anglophone African countries, August 2018

10 years of GLAAS

Published on: 11/09/2018
New global WASH monitoring report will include better information from more countries, including high-income states.

Two sides of sanitation: rubbish and cleanliness. Cambodia/India

Sanitation and health: what do we want to know?

Published on: 01/08/2018
Experts meet to discuss reaching a consensus on what the evidence tells us.

Water should not be a privilege - UNICEF

Safely managed water and sanitation for all - a big ask for many countries

Published on: 17/07/2017
New report by WHO and UNICEF sets the baseline for ambitious global goals.

JMP 25 years

25 years of global sanitation and water monitoring

Published on: 30/06/2015
Over the last 25 years, a unique UN partnership has developed a robust monitoring mechanism that can support the goal of universal access.

Small steps towards building national-regional-global coherence in monitoring WASH

Global sector monitoring instruments should align with global accountability frameworks, such as the one being built into Sanitation and Water for...
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Front page GLAAS report 2014 by WHO

Bottom’s up; country monitoring as the bedrock

Published on: 12/05/2015
While reviewing experiences with the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS), it is clear that there is a need to strengthen systematic, comprehensive, country-led processes which feed global monitoring.

Traditional Birth Attendants practice hand washing

The alarming lack of water, sanitation and hygiene in health care facilities

Published on: 03/04/2015
A third of health care facilities in the developing world don't even have water and soap for handwashing. A shameful situation that can be overcome with simple solutions and global action.

Photo: Katherine Anderson/WSSCC

A joint letter to the UN Open Working Group on Post-2015 to refine the water and sanitation focus area

Published on: 23/06/2014
A joint letter from private sector, civil society and academic organisations was sent to the United Nations' Open Working Group with one firm message: Let's work together to finish the unfinished business of the MDGs and strive far beyond to a future of universal access to water, sanitation and...

WASH by numbers: the latest on cost benchmarks, economic returns and handwashing

Published on: 16/10/2012
One of the most quoted WASH statistics was recently “downgraded”. For every $1 invested in water and sanitation, not $8 but “only” $4 is returned in economic returns through increased productivity. This recalculation, says WHO, is mainly a result of higher investment cost estimates and the more...

WHO public health engineer Yves Chartier dies

Published on: 14/03/2012
Yves Chartier, who worked for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WSH) at the World Health Organization, died in a tragic accident in the Jura mountains on 8 January 2012. Mr. Chartier was WHO’s face for matters of medical waste management, and for water and sanitation in health care centres and schools.