🚻 Today is World Toilet Day
Rural areas face persistent sanitation challenges. Our report offers guidance to improve access to safe, sustainable sanitation.
📖 Read more: tinyurl.com/dk7n3un5
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Great to see SLH work on Rapid Action Learning and Immersions featured on the newly developed Participatory Methods website 🎉
🔗 Learn more about Rapid Action Learning 👇
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🔗 Learn more about Immersions 👇
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📣 New The Sanitation Learning Hub learning paper:
💧 The Potential of Participatory Video Action Research in WASH Programming
Read the paper here 👇
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📣 NEW APPROACH GUIDELINE: 'Rural sanitation programming in challenging contexts: Principles, guiding questions and recommendations'
'Challenging contexts' are based around 5 broad categories of challenges:
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Challenging contexts can be defined as environments, circumstances or attributes which limit the effectiveness of business-as-usual rural sanitation programmes working at scale. These environments, circumstances or attributes need to be considered to Leave No One Behind
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This paper provides guiding principles, key considerations and suggestions for planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and learning (MEL) and adaptive management within rural sanitation programmes.
Read the full paper 👇
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Join us at @UNC_Water_Inst's Water and Health Conference! Co-convened by @WaterAidUK & @UNICEF
💧 Date: 16 October 2024
💧 Time: 1.30pm-3pm (EDT)
💧 Location: Windflower
Register to attend online: buff.ly/3ZWci1S
Find us at 3 events at World Water Week 2024:
💧 Is failure a key step in mainstreaming technology innovation?
💧 Achieving Gender Equality Within and Beyond WASH Systems
💧 Governance approaches for increased water security and gender equity with @_waterforwomen
WASH actors need to do more to shift the social expectations that unpaid care and domestic work is a woman’s responsibility❗
Our Learning Paper by Sue Cavill and Chelsea Huggett calls on the WASH sector to take urgent action on unpaid WASH work ➡️ sanitationlearninghub.org/re…
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Write a blog on climate change & health in Africa ✍️🏿
AHOP are commissioning blogs that analyse existing policies on #climate change and #healthsystems from countries within the #WHO African region.
Submit a blog outline by 2 Aug.
Details: ahop.aho.afro.who.int/wp-con…
ALT AHOP are commissioning blogs that analyse existing policies on #climate change and #healthsystems from countries within the #WHO African region.
Submit a blog outline by 2 Aug.
Great article in the Telegraph by @WainwrightTim@wateraid.
He highlights the contradiction between the UK government's new plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance, and their greatly reduced spending on WASH.
⬇ telegraph.co.uk/global-healt…
We hope that cross-party support for funding for global access to WASH turns into significant investment that can help tackle anti-microbial resistance, alongside other impacts of limited and inequitable access to services.
#WASHTwitter#AntiMicrobialResistance
New project 📣
We have recently started working with @Welthungerhilfe on a study focusing on equitable access to services in riverine communities in Sierra Leone.
Find out more here ➡️sanitationlearninghub.org/an…
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In immersive research, researchers live with people in their own homes for 3-5 days and gain insights through informal conversations, first-hand observations and experiences.
Find out how immersive approaches were used in India with @FINISHMondial ➡️sanitationlearninghub.org/re…
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Have you heard about our course on using ethical photos in the WASH sector? 📸
It’s well-suited to anyone interested in using photos in their communications, research or advocacy work - researchers, communications officers, programme managers, funders, (MEL) specialists etc.!
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N.B. We're running the course three times over the summer, register before 20th May to join us in June ✅
📅 10th, 12th, 17th, 19th June
📅 8th, 10th, 15th, 17th July
📅 5th, 7th, 12th, 14th August