2012 - 2014 Networking and action learning to support CLTS To accelerate the adoption of Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS) by enabling communities to take action to end open defecation and adopt hygienic behaviors, leading to improved dignity, health, and well-being of the impoverished.
Our intention is to support the scaling up of CLTS with quality and sustainability. To this end, we engage in the following activities: action learning, networking and dissemination, co-convening workshops for sharing and learning, the CLTS website and bi-monthly newsletter We proactively co-generate and co-create practical knowledge, find out about and share innovations, and seek to make all this widely and quickly accessible. Through making linkages between organisations and […]
2012 - 2018 Community Hygiene Output-Based Aid (CHOBA) in Vietnam and Cambodia Accelerating delivery of improved sanitation to low-income populations in rural areas of Cambodia and Vietnam using a results-based financing approach.
The CHOBA program is intended to increase sanitation coverage and the adoption of safe hygiene practices in rural communities across Cambodia and Vietnam, dramatically scaling up a previous output-based aid (OBA) latrine program. Under CHOBA, East Meets West (EMW) teams in Vietnam and Cambodia work with local implementation partners to facilitate the purchase of hygienic toilets and septic systems by vulnerable households. Going door-to-door, CHOBA […]
2012 - 2016 A framework for sustainable sanitation solution in Bihar To pilot a women-led model of sanitation service delivery in Bihar, India.
2012 - 2016 Improving rural effective total sanitation through female local government members of Union Parishad led intervention in Bangladesh The purpose of this project is to ensure gender mainstreamed effective total sanitation for well-being and to minimize health hazards in rural Bangladesh.
Focus of the project is to learn whether female Local Government members (FLGM), working with women’s groups, can establish effective sanitation improvements at scale. EPRC is studying whether female Local Government members (FLGMs), working together with Cluster Women’s Groups (CWGs), can effectively promote sanitation, including ownership and use of improved latrines, hand washing and related hygiene practices. The FLGMs are elected reserved seat members of the […]
2012 - 2015 Sanitation and hygiene initiative through community institutions of the poor in Uttar Pradesh, India To establish the efficacy of community institutions of the poor in program villages to adopt safe and healthy sanitation and menstrual behaviours and practices.
2012 - 2015 AG-WATSAN Nexus: Guiding pro-poor investments in the nexus among domestic water quality and quantity, sanitation and hygiene from the bottom-up Proposing policy recommendations on investment and priority activities and tools to empower households and communities to monitor their WATSAN environment
Having an integrated approach from different scientific disciplines is crucial in addressing the issues of water and sanitation and their links to other sectors, particularly agriculture. The WATSAN project will involve scientists from a broad range of relevant disciplines (ecology, hydrology, agronomy, economy, sociology, and public health). The project compiles household data from Demographic and Health Surveys and primary data collection in the community to […]
2012 - 2021 Monitoring for Safe Water - Cash on delivery for water quality testing To improve the public health outcomes of water, sanitation and hygiene programs in sub-Saharan Africa by developing evidence-based strategies for efficient, accurate and systematic microbial water quality testing.
Microbial water quality is a major public health indicator reflecting, among other things, the efficacy of sanitation projects and the level of sanitation that has or hasn’t been achieved in a particular setting. MfSW seeks to answer the question: Why doesn’t microbial water quality testing meet regulatory requirements in sub-Saharan Africa? Challenging technical, logistical, and financial requirements for both diagnosing microbial water quality and managing […]
2012 - 2016 SWASH+ Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Plus Community Impact To improve the sustainability and effectiveness of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at scale in order to support the Government of Kenya’s Comprehensive School Health Policy.
Short description of the project (Phase 2): The overall goal of SWASH+ Phase II is to improve the sustainability and effectiveness of school water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) at scale in order to support the Government of Kenya’s Comprehensive School Health Policy. Like Phase I, Phase II is based on an action-research-advocacy approach that seeks to test and promote viable solutions to implementing school WASH […]
2014 - 2015 Using performance-based contracting to build a pay-for-use sanitation market in Monrovia, Liberia Analyzing the specific opportunities for private sector providers at all points in the sanitation value chain and assessing consumer willingness to pay for those services
PSI and Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) conducted in-depth landscape research to better understand the market system for sanitation and what conditions exist in the system to stimulate private sector performance, including public sector support. With the support of Hope Consulting, PSI conducted an analysis of the roles, opportunities, and challenges facing various actors (suppliers, influencers, financiers, etc.) in the market. Research findings were used to […]
2013 - 2015 Project Prasaadhan - Business model development for fecal sludge management in rural Bihar, India Developing commercially viable business models for pit emptying and combined service provision for emptying and disposal, treatment and/or reuse, fostering public-private partnerships for faecal sludge management
PSI and its partners Water for People (WFP), the WASH Institute and 3S Shramik, a local business offering portable toilets, fecal waste removal, transport and treatment services, are working to integrate the development of business models for FSM with their other existing project, “Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements (3SI)” , which is a supply-side strengthening project to increase access and to improved sanitation. Project Prasadhan is […]
2012 - 2017 Supporting sustainable sanitation improvements in Bihar through supply-side strengthening (3SI) Increase access to and use of improved sanitation facilities and services and establish a sustainable, market-based supply chain for sanitation products and services in Bihar, India
In 2012, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PSI launched 3SI: Supporting Sustainable Sanitation Improvements in Bihar, India. PSI with support from partners Monitor-Deloitte, PATH and Water For People is taking key steps towards improving sanitation access in Bihar by addressing constraints in supply and demand in order to build sustainable markets for sanitation. Activities include: innovating from existing toilet designs to […]
2013 - 2017 Integrated Water and Sanitation Model for Rural India Sanitation promotion and sustainable sanitation technology for rural households, as part of livelihood projects aimed at alleviating poverty among tribal communities (in the states of Gujarat and Jharkhand)
This integrated rural water and sanitation project builds on the experiences of the Trust, CInI and its Implementing Support Agencies (ISA) derived from the implementation of community based drinking water supply systems across rural India. The collaboration with the Gates Foundation will focus on integrating sanitation into the village level action plans; leveraging community groups and structures (for example, women’s self help groups (SHGs), community […]
2011 - 2018 Urban Services Initiative (USI) To evaluate innovative methods designed to improve the welfare of the urban poor in Asia and Africa. The project covers, amongst other issues, water, sanitation, and hygiene, migrant integration and livelihoods, energy and the environment, transportation.
To identify and rigorously evaluate, through randomized controlled trials, innovative methods designed to improve the welfare of the urban poor in Asia and Africa. USI covers a broad range of urban issues including water, sanitation, and hygiene, migrant integration and livelihoods, energy and the environment, transportation, housing and infrastructure, and delivery of health and education services. Those projects funded through USI with a focus on sanitation […]
2011 - 2015 Innovations in sustainable sanitation in Bangladesh To increase sanitation coverage at scale with a special emphasis on reaching the ultra-poor, as well as innovation and replication of components
This grant supports BRAC’s WASH II program, operating in 250 upazilas (sub-districts) across Bangladesh, covering around half the country. The Foundation (BMGF) sought to reach at least 1.2 million persons with the funds it provided; as of December 2014, BRAC had reached over 4 million people with hygienic latrines through loans, grants and motivation. The project used a community-based integrated approach and also provided financial […]
2013 - 2019 Campaigning for sanitation in Ghana, India, West Africa and the US To elevate sanitation as a national, regional and global political priority and strengthen accountability for related political and financial commitments at all levels, with a focus on West Africa, Ghana, India, and the US
While high-level political WASH commitments are in place globally, regionally and nationally, a number of barriers exist which exacerbate the struggle to turn policy and commitments into operational and actionable plans, and these in turn into improvements in access for the poor and marginalized. In alignment with existing African and South Asian commitments (for example, the EThekwini and Sanitation and Water for All - High […]
2012 - 2016 Sustainable total sanitation in Nigeria To improve the effectiveness, efficiency, inclusion and sustainability of total sanitation approaches for the poor and underserved in Nigerian states and contribute to national and regional good practices.
WaterAid seeks to: Achieve and sustain Open Defecation Free (ODF) status at the community and household level; Embed best practices derived from project implementation; Undertake formal research to understand the effectiveness of community-led total sanitation (CLTS), which is a community mobilization intervention, as well as sanitation marketing, which targets suppliers of sanitation materials, in increasing the coverage and use of improved sanitation; and Influence the path to scale in […]
2012 - 2016 Scaling-up and strengthening community approaches to total sanitation (Community Approaches to Total Sanitation, CATS) To assess and analyze CATS innovations and implementation strategies in Malawi and Indonesia, distil and disseminate lessons learned to other UNICEF country programs in Africa and Asia.
UNICEF is implementing Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) or CATS programs in a large number of countries globally, mostly in Africa and Asia. This project is designed to assess and analyze CATS innovations and implementation strategies in two countries - Malawi and Indonesia - and to distil and disseminate lessons learned to other UNICEF country programs in Africa and Asia. Among other goals, the project […]
2013 - 2015 Verification of BRAC grant outcomes Helping to ensure that low-cost sanitation is delivered to target households, by BRAC in Bangladesh
1 - Emory University, Center for Global Safe Water (2015): Report on a study to independently assess latrine coverage and use under BRAC’s WASH II Project in Bangladesh BRAC is a NGO in Bangladesh involved in WASH programmes.
2010 - 2017 Assessment and characterization of fecal exposure pathways in urban low-income settings (SaniPath) To improve the understanding of risks from fecal contamination in urban and peri-urban settings in developing countries and ultimately develop effective strategies and inform investments and policies to reduce these risks.
Phase 1 on the study involved in-depth data collection on behavior and environmental contamination along multiple pathways of exposure in Accra, Ghana. Examples of pathways of exposure to fecal contamination include drinking water, recreational water, waste-water irrigated produce, surfaces in public latrines, drain water, etc. Based on lessons from Accra, we have been developing the SaniPath Rapid Assessment Tool to assess key pathways of exposure […]
2013 - 2015 Does sanitation behavior migrate? Evidence from seasonal migrant workers in Bangladesh The purpose of the project is to understand hygiene and sanitation behavior of seasonal migrant workers in Bangladesh.
The researchers expanded on two existing randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh – which had previously been implemented - to study the sanitation behavior of season migrants and their families (several thousand people were included in the trial). Seasonal migration could be an important tool to address seasonal poverty documented in many countries such as Bangladesh (Bryan, Chowdhury and Mobarak, 2014).
