Why the waterless, container-based toilet is the solution to off-grid communities’ health, equality and economic stability

An amazing 130 of the 169 UN SDG targets have synergies with sanitation. Find out the details in this study or go to our new interactive website.

Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are indisputable pillars of global public health. Well-implemented interventions that result in improved access to WASH by individuals and communities are necessary for the control, elimination and eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – a group of diseases prioritized by WHO given their propensity to cause suffering, deepen poverty and worsen social inequality. Progress against certain NTDs can therefore serve as a proxy for equity and effective targeting of WASH programmes.

The publication "A Sanitation Journey - Principles, Approaches and Tools for Urban Sanitation" provides an orientation to the sector’s current status and future directions, aimed at both sanitation professionals and those outside the sector. The publication describes the historical background of how urban sanitation in the Global South has developed and how the international discourse about strategies to improve urban sanitation have evolved over the past decades.

The aim of this book is to provide a basis for standardised methods for the analysis of faecal sludge from onsite sanitation technologies, for Improved communication between sanitation practitioners, and for greater confidence in the generated data.

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The aim of this document is to provide an overview of the possibilities for resource recovery from sanitation and provide guidance on treatment processes to achieve safe products for reuse. The focus of this document is on resource recovery from the organic wastes managed in sanitation systems.

There are significant resources within excreta and wastewater fractions that can be recovered and turned into useful products. For example, the average person excretes 4.5 kg of nitrogen, 0.5 kg of phosphorus and 1.2 kg of potassium every year. These elements and other micronutrients found in excreta are critical for the fertilising and restoration of agricultural soils.

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In order to ensure the functionality and sustainability of school sanitation facilities, proper use and maintenance is a crucial component of successful WASH implementation. This has inspired the development of the O&M – Calculate the cost mobile application, which is a product of the synergy between the Regional Fit for School Programme and Sector Programme for Sustainable Sanitation. This mobile application is geared toward helping schools calculate annual costs for WinS operation and maintenance in compliance with global recommendations on drinking water, sanitation, personal hygiene, and environmental/surface hygiene.

This report presents the state of sanitation in the world today to increase awareness of the progress made towards achieving the SDG targets for sanitation, and the challenges that remain. It calls on Member States, the United Nations system and partners to rise to these challenges within the context of the SDG 6 Global Acceleration Framework.

By presenting best practices, case studies, successes and challenges, this report seeks to inspire Member States and all stakeholders to learn from each other and work together towards achieving universal access to safe sanitation by 2030.

Project WISE will bring improved water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure; behavior change programs for kids and adults; and strengthened menstrual health services for girls aged 10 and above. Our goal is to demonstrate a scalable, durable, and cost-efficient WASH-in-Schools (WINS) model that can be replicated beyond the initial two target cities and countries.

Sustainable Development Goal 6 for water and sanitation calls for the realization of safely managed services (SMSS) for everyone by 2030. While there has been significant research and implementation to improve the sanitation service chain in urban settings, little guidance is available on how to achieve and sustain SMSS in rural contexts. In 2019, WSSCC commissioned this study to examine to what extent Global Sanitation Fund (GSF)-supported programmes enabled SMSS in rural areas with collective behaviour change approaches like CLTS, identify challenges, good practices, and learning needs, and generate a set of recommendations for rural sanitation programmes.