EcoSan Club (2016) The NaWaTech project

The NaWaTech project (Natural Water Systems and Treatment Technologies to cope with Water Shortages in UrbanisedbAreas in India) is an Indian-European Research and Development Project aimed at maximising the exploitation of natural and compact technical systems and processes for the effective management of municipal water resources, water supply and sanitation services, and the municipal water cycle as a whole in urbanised areas of India. The […]

Caplan, K. (2015) Thematic Discussion: Private sector engagement in sanitation and hygiene: Exploring roles across the sanitation chain Discussion Synthesis

GIZ (2015) Link Collection WASH in Schools Breaking the taboo around sanitation in school settings- How to increase ownership of pupils and teachers for their school-sanitation infrastructure!

This Link collection is for practitioners, WASH-club organizers, teachers and everyone who has an interest in achieving an overview of the broad WASH in Schools scene. The aim of this Link collection is to provide an overview of the various reports, approaches, activities and further research sources about WASH education in schools. A special focus lies on publications with concrete examples and instructions on how to […]

Rieck, C., Graham, R. (2015) WASH interventions – going beyond direct health impacts Recommendations for improving and monitoring the health impacts of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions

It is widely accepted that water, sanitation and hygiene are necessary foundations for public health. For this reason, the WASH sector, which includes the German development actors (GIZ, 2011), have traditionally based their justification for WASH interventions on the hypothesis that the health status of the target groups will improve. Despite the fact that these impacts are in general not questioned, it is costly and […]

Rohilla, S.K., Luthra, B., Varma, R.S., Padhi, S.K. (2015) SFD Report - Srikakulam, India SFD Promotion Initiative

Srikakulam is a coastal city located in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP). It is the district headquarters and is an important administrative and commercial centre. It is one of the oldest municipalities of the state, established in 1856. It is located adjacent to the National Highway number 5 connecting Chennai and Kolkata. River Nagavali flows through the city. (MA&UD, 2011). The population of city as […]

Rohilla, S.K., Luthra, B., Varma, R.S., Padhi, S.K. (2015) SFD Report - Cuttack, India SFD Promotion Initiative

Cuttack city, lies in east coast plains of India, is the former capital and one of the oldest cities of Odisha, established in 1876 as municipality. It is the district headquarter and is situated at a distance of about 25 km to the north of Bhubaneswar, the present capital of Odisha. The city is surrounded by the rivers Mahanadi, Kathajodi, Birupa and Kuakhai (CMC, 2011). […]

Rohilla, S.K., Luthra, B., Varma, R.S., Padhi, S.K. (2015) SFD Report - Aizawl, India SFD Promotion Initiative

Aizawl, capital of Mizoram state, lies in east Himalayan region of India. It is the largest city of the state. Area under municipal council, which is 103.93 sq.km, has been chosen for the study. Aizawl Municipal Council (AMC) is further divided into 19 Wards. The population of city under AMC, as per 2011 Census, is 293,416 persons. The density of City is 2,823 persons per […]

Contzen, N., Mosler, H.-J. (2015) RANAS (Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self‐regulation) methodological fact sheets 6 methodological fact sheets on behavior change

These six fact sheets about methodologies deal with the RANAS (Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self‐regulation) approach that is an often used method for designing and evaluating behavior change strategies. The factsheets contain a brief description of the approach ready to use for practitioners.

Mosler, H.-J. et al (2015) RANAS (Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities, and Self‐regulation) intervention fact sheets 5 intervention fact sheets on data-driven behavior change

These five fact sheets about interventions present case studies from Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and Uganda and show the effects of different strategies that were applied in order to achieve behavior changes. Intervention fact sheet 1: Achieving long-term use of solar water disinfection in Zimbabwe Household water treatment can guarantee safe drinking water to prevent diarrhea and cholera. However, high compliance and sustainable use is seldom achieved. The present […]

Harada, H., Schoebitz, L., Strande, L. (2015) SFD Report - Danang, Vietnam SFD Promotion Initiative

Danang is located at the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is the fourth most populated city in the country with approximately 1,007,400 inhabitants in 2014 (GSO 2015). The total land area of the city is 1,285 km2, including 65 km2 of residential area (GSO 2015). Sixty-two percent (62%) of the excreta flow was classified as unsafe management along the sanitation service chain (containment, emptying, […]

Harada, H., Schoebitz, L., Strande, L. (2015) SFD Report - Nonthaburi, Thailand SFD Promotion Initiative

Nonthaburi City Municipality is the principal city of Nonthaburi province, located to the north of Bangkok. It has a registered population of 256,457 in the area of 38.9 km2 (NCM 2015a). Most of the houses have onsite sanitation systems such as septic tanks or cesspools. The city municipality is responsible for the collection, transportation and treatment of the generated faecal sludge according with the Public […]

Gunawan, A., Schoebitz, L., Strande, L. (2015) SFD Report - Khulna, Bangladesh SFD Promotion Initiative

Khulna is located in the south-western part of Bangladesh, with a population of 1.5 million and a total area of 46 km2. Its National policy and strategy documents encourage both NGOs and the private sector to actively engage in providing sanitation services. However, the SFD assessment has shown that 100% of the excreta in Khulna is not contained and therefore unsafely managed. The Shit Flow Diagram […]

ACF & USTB (2015) A Study on Sustainable Sanitation Technologies for Vulnerable Peri-Urban Communities in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia PhD Report

In many of the world’s undeveloped or partially-developed countries, and even in some developed ones, frequent outbreaks of various water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)- and greywater-borne diseases are still prevalent due to lack/absence/failure of WASH system. As a result, poor sanitation accounts for the death of a child every 20 seconds which leads to 1.5 million preventable death each year. Therefore development of alternative sanitation […]

ACF (2015) Sustainable sanitation for vulnerable population in periurban areas of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Compendium of 14 thematic peered papers

Action contre la Faim (ACF) has been working in Mongolia since 2001; both in Ulaanbaatar Ger areas (urban formal and informal slums), and the western Bayan Ulgi (province), undertaking multiyear food security, WASH and nutrition programmes. Both water and sanitation sub sectors are a growing concern: the current method for excreta disposal is using basic, often poorly constructed unsealed pit latrines. The current system is causing […]

Furlong, C. (2015) SFD Report - Nakuru, Kenya SFD Promotion Initiative

Nakuru is the fourth largest town in Kenya, lying within the Rift Valley and covering an area of 290 km2. Less than 30% of the population is served by the sewerage network, while the majority of the population use onsite sanitation services, predominantly in the form of basic or traditional pit latrines. Formal emptying services for fecal sludge has limited coverage, with the fecal sludge […]

ACF & USTB (2015) Composting Manual for Cold Climate Countries Manual 2015

Composting is defined as the controlled biological decomposition and stabilization of organic substrates under a set of factors (e.g., temperature, moisture content, carbon-nitrogen ratio, degree of aeration, pH level, and physical structure of the raw materials), which allow development of thermophilic conditions as a result of biologically produced heat. The final product should be stable, free of pathogens and plant seeds, and beneficial when applied […]

Keatman, T. (2015) Thematic Discussion: Sanitation and hygiene behaviour change programming Discussion Synthesis

The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Community of Practice on Sanitation and Hygiene in Developing Countries (WSSCC CoP) and the global Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) came together in late September 2015 to hold a joint three-week thematic discussion on sanitation and hygiene behaviour change programming and sustainability. It was the first time the two networks had come together to host an online collaborative learning […]

Chitty, A. (2015) The Impact of Poor Sanitation on Nutrition

With 165 million children suffering from chronic undernutrition (being stunted) and 52 million suffering from acute malnutrition (being wasted) (UNICEF et al., 2012), more concerted and cross-sectoral Action is needed. Improving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the context of nutrition programming offers one important opportunity to do this. A recent systematic review of 14 studies on WASH interventions in ten low and middle income […]

Chambers, R., von Medeazza, G. (2014) Reframing undernutrition: faecally-transmitted Infections and the 5 As

The dominant nutrition discourse concerns access to adequate food and its quality. It now includes food security, food rights and justice, governance and agriculture. Despite many initiatives to assure food access, and growing economies, high levels of undernutrition persist in much of Asia. It is increasingly suggested that much of this ‘Asian enigma’ can now be explained by open defecation (OD) combined with population density. […]

Generation Nutrition (2015) The role of water, sanitation & hygiene in the fight against child undernutrition (in English, French and Spanish)

This factsheet is the first in a series by Gereration Nutrition looking at different ways of preventing child undernutrition, and focuses on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH). It explains how WASH and Nutrition outcome for children are intimately linked and how improved WASH reduces undernutrition, thereby helping to break the cycle of poverty and transform people's lives. A French version of the factsheet is also available. […]