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This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a widely used sanitation intervention, Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS …), using a randomized controlled trial. The intervention was implemented at scale across rural East Java in Indonesia. CLTS … constraints faced by poorer households limit their ability to improve sanitation. We also examine the program's scale up process …
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Despite the well-documented benefits of improved sanitation and washing facilities, a considerable number of people …, even in middle-income countries, still lack access to modern sanitation and home-based bathing facilities. This paper … sanitation and washing facilities. The study finds that in Kazakhstan, households with higher incomes generally have better …
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In this paper, we implement Bayesian potential outcomes model to evaluate the impact of program interventions using non-randomized data. The approach jointly addresses selection bias in program placement, heterogeneous treatment intensity among the treated, and heterogeneity in treatment...
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In the absence of third party and prepayment systems such as health insurance and tax-based healthcare financing, households in many low-income countries are exposed to the financial risks of paying large medical bills from out-of-pocket. In recent years, community based health insurance schemes...
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Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial health and productivity costs. However, existing measures of willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements indicate low valuations by affected households. This paper argues that this seeming paradox...
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We use data on a large-scale water and sanitation program in rural Mozambique, implemented between 2008 and 2013, to … investigate the complementarities between a behavior-change-based community-led total sanitation intervention and a community … water supply intervention. Our findings indicate that the sanitation intervention increased the adoption of handwashing with …
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field experiment of Community-Led Total Sanitation in Indonesia, we find that villages with high initial social capital …
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Every month, millions of women worldwide face challenges managing their menstrual hygiene, suffering negative impacts on their health, education, and productivity. Cultural taboos and social norms may contribute to harmful health behaviors and may also interfere with attempts to improve...
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Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational attainment and higher work absenteeism. Cultural taboos and social norms surrounding menstruation may contribute to misinformation about menstrual hygiene and may also interfere...
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In Lohagara Upazila and other rural areas of Chittagong, a few NGOs have been working to resolve water, sanitation and … health (WaSH) problems. But it is still an issue of unresolved dearth of education and sufficient lucre. This paper is based …
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