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The Sanitation Workers Knowledge + Learning Hub is the best source for all current news, trends, articles and updates on sanitation workers rights around the world.
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Most adolescent girls and women menstruate. This means that for five to seven days each month they bleed through their vagina. This monthly bleeding is often accompanied by abdominal cramps, headaches, mood changes and general lethargy all of which can be exacerbated by social stigma, myths and a lack of requisite infrastructure to manage menstruation safely, privately and hygienically. The …
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This Sanitary Survey Checklist Guide provides a methodical way to identify the factors or features of the existing school WASH system that contribute to an increased risk to the health of school children and teachers. It should be possible for the school community, with a assistance from the facilitator and possibly a health inspector, to answer the checklist questions and see the weaknesses and …
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The Participation Handbook for humanitarian field workers contains detailed practical advice on the participation of affected people in humanitarian action. It has three sections: Developing a participatory approach (main issues, key factors, building mutual respect, communication methods and advice on reviewing your approach); Implementing your participatory approach at every stage of the …
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Sarai Taikore south is a small Low-Income Group (LIG) settlement in Chunar Nagar Palika Parishad (CNPP) (geographical coordinates 25°06'53.7"N 82°52'25.7"E) in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India (Figure 1). It is located within Ward No. 5 of Chunar Nagar Palika Parishad (the city has a total of 25 wards). As per Census of India, 2011, Sarai Taikore south is part of Ward No. 5 and is surrounded …
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It is always better to use water from a clean source that’s stored in a safe way. However, this is not always possible, especially in an emergency. Something may have made the source unclean or unusable. Or a population may
not have access to clean containers or practice good hygiene behaviour. One approach to this problem is treating water at the household level. This is often a temporary …
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Menstrual poverty, also called period poverty, is understood as the range of interconnected deprivation menstruators face. But which factors play a role and what can the WASH sector do to tackle menstrual poverty? Examples from a Yazidi IDP camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq illustrate why the time for action is now.
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Rural areas of Cambodia have no safe waste management strategies for household latrine waste. Household application of lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) would enable households to treat waste easily on-site and significantly reduce the risk of latrine sludge causing negative impacts on human health and the environment, whilst transforming latrines into incubators of a valuable agricultural …
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The Open Defecation Free (ODF) Malawi 2015 Strategy and National Hand Washing Campaign have been contributing to an increased focus on handwashing with soap (HWWS) in Malawi.1 This is a very positive development!
Some studies estimate that washing hands with soap can reduce diarrhoeal disease rates by up to 50 per cent and respiratory disease rates by up to 25 per cent. This makes handwashing …
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The mission of this programme is to educate plumbers on connections between Household and Public Sewerage Systems. This Training of Trainers manual is meant for trainers, in order to equip them with the skills to become expert trainers in this field. This manual is meant to be used in conjunction with the Plumber’s Training Manual and the Recommended Presentations (PPTs) to execute a successful …
