Vietnam and Peru are two of four countries taking part in the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) Global Scaling up Handwashing Project. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project aims to expand handwashing practices among women of reproductive age...

Sanitation needs are significant in Bangladesh, which is the most densely populated country in the world and one of the poorest. Adding to the challenge, about one-third of Bangladesh experiences annual floods and other parts of the country suffer seasonal water shortages. All of these factors...

This report organizes the contents, lessons learned, and conclusions of this workshop and is geared toward project and institution leaders and managers, as well as persons responsible for project execution who are interested in taking advantage of the benefits derived from the inclusion of...

This report has been created to provide practical tools, tips, and methodologies for project leaders to integrate hygiene components into their projects. It builds on available evidence about the contribution of behavioral change programs to the reduction of diseases, in particular hand-washing...

Statistics from the UN Joint Monitoring Program show sanitation progress in Indonesia to be off-track coverage has to increase by more than 13 percentage points nationally from 2008 to 2015 to meet the sanitation target of the Millennium Development Goals, which the Government of Indonesia...

The Philippines is well on its way to achieving the sanitation target, which is part of a combined drinking water and sanitation target within the Millennium Development Goal (MDG). As of 2008, about 76 percent of its population had access to improved sanitation facilities (JMP 2010). This is...

In response to the preventable threats posed by poor sanitation and hygiene, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) launched two large-scale projects, global scaling up handwashing and global scaling up rural sanitation, to improve the health and welfare outcomes for millions of poor people....

This case study of the sustainability of rural sanitation marketing is part of a wider activity entitled 'Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing (TSSM): new approaches to Stimulate and Scale up Sanitation Demand and Supply Project,' also known as the Global Scaling up Sanitation Project. The...

The present study offers evidence on alternative financing approaches for on-site household sanitation from case studies in six countries: Bangladesh, Ecuador, India, Mozambique, Senegal, and Vietnam. This evidence can help identify the best-performing approaches and the relevant factors and...

Handwashing (HW) efficacy studies have taken the form of randomized controlled trials and the outcome(s) of interest have primarily been health related. That is, the intervention group, which received HW promotion, and the control group have been compared according to disease burden. As HW...