Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Efforts and Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG6)

The Knowledge Base for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal Targets on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene

Safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are fundamental to an improved standard of living. Globally, 91% of households used improved drinking water sources in 2015, while for improved sanitation it is 68%. Wealth disparities are stark, with rural populations, slum dwellers and marginalized groups lagging significantly behind. Service coverage is significantly lower when considering ...

Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH): A Critical Component for Sustainable Soil-Transmitted Helminth and Schistosomiasis Control

1 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 2 WaterAid Australia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4 Clinical Tropical Medicine Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 5 Department of Infecti...

Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), environmental enteropathy, nutrition, and early child development: making the links.

There is scarce research and programmatic evidence on the effect of poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions of the physical environment on early child cognitive, sensorimotor, and socioemotional development. Furthermore, many common WASH interventions are not specifically designed to protect babies in the first 3 years of life, when gut health and linear growth are established. We...

A Systematic Review: Costing and Financing of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools

Despite the success of recent efforts to increase access to improved water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) globally, approximately one-third of schools around the world still lack adequate WASH services. A lack of WASH in schools can lead to the spread of preventable disease and increase school absences, especially among women. Inadequate financing and budgeting has been named as a key barrier ...

External Program Evaluation Water, Sanitation And Hygiene (WASH) Program In Ethiopia Final Report