The Sanitation Learning Hub

🚻 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

New Learning Brief 💧 Unsafe sanitation leads to 1M+ preventable deaths yearly. In Bonthe District, open defecation rates are double the national average. Read the full paper 👇 sanitationlearninghub.org/resource/achie… #WASH #SanitationForAll #SierraLeone

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 👇 lnkd.in/eih2nXhK 🔗 Learn more about Immersions 👇 lnkd.in/e7zrRisN

📣 New The Sanitation Learning Hub learning paper: 💧 The Potential of Participatory Video Action Research in WASH Programming Read the paper here 👇 buff.ly/40jQu0r

🧵3/3 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 👇 tinyurl.com/ydtd69wf

🧵2/3 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

📣 NEW APPROACH GUIDELINE: 'Rural sanitation programming in challenging contexts: Principles, guiding questions and recommendations' 'Challenging contexts' are based around 5 broad categories of challenges: 🧵1/3 👇

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/resource/out-o…

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-content/upl…

#MenstrualHygieneDay People with disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities, tend to be inadequately considered when delivering interventions. Find out more in this publication⬇️ sanitationlearninghub.org/resource/adapt… @janewilbur @LSHTM_EHG @WorldVision #WASHTwitter

🚻♿ Join our superb lineup of speakers and moderators who will discuss hashtag#incontinence in different contexts during the 2nd webinar of the RWSN Early Webinar Series! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist… #continencematters #WorldContinenceWeek #MHM #MenstrualHygeneDay

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

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-health/…

This study builds upon SLH’s portfolio of work on sanitation programming in challenging contexts (📋sanitationlearninghub.org/workstream/san…) and area-wide sanitation and hygiene (📋sanitationlearninghub.org/workstream/loc…).

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/announcement/n…

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/resource/immer…

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

Find out more and register here ➡bit.ly/3wD4VzZ For more information on how and why we developed the course, check out our blog ✏ sanitationlearninghub.org/2024/02/28/the…

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.!