Health

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. Resources available in this sub-theme include guidance on installation of cost-effective safe water supply systems and latrines, summaries of health improvements following WASH projects, and other resources that can help to improve the understanding of the health implications of WASH projects.

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Project Monitoring Report 1991-92: Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development (WASHED)

Published: 
November 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report reviews the progress made from July 1991 to mid-September 1992 in the Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development (WASHED) Project, a joint effort of USAID/Ecuador and the Ecuadorian Institute for Sanitary Works (IEOS). It documents the activities to involve project staff...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Published: 
July 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
All too often, water and sanitation projects focus on new facilities to the neglect of sanitation and hygiene behaviors. This study makes a case for letting the determination of what behavioral sanitation changes may reasonably be introduced within the cultural and religious milieu of the target...Read more

Assessment of Interagency Collaboration in the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project and Its Guinea Worm Reduction Component

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The joint-agency Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project successfully provided the northern Zou Province with 281 positive wells in villages that received training for social mobilization, pump maintenance and intensive health education.Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Grant Agreement between the Republic of Guatemala and the United States of America for the Highlands Water and Sanitation Project

Published: 
August 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The grant agreement for the Highlands Water and Sanitation project, which consisted of assistance to the Guatemalan government to decrease the incidence of gastrointestinal disease in communities through the provision of potable water systems and latrines supported by a health education program.Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

Strategies for Linking Water and Sanitation Programs to Child Survival

Published: 
September 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
Strategies for linking water and sanitation programs to child survival. In June 1989, the AID funded Water and Sanitation for Health Project (WASH) sponsored a workshop to review the experience of eight project which have linked water supply and sanitation and child survival. The recommendations...Read more

Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project: Mid-Term Evaluation

Published: 
February 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
Mid-term evaluation of a project to improve Benin's rural water/sanitation system through well and latrine construction, the creation of village self-management committees, and related education campaigns. The project is a joint effort among USAID/B, the Government of Benin (GOB), UNICEF, and...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Evaluation of the Environmental Component of the Community-Based Integrated Health and Nutrition Project in Guatemala

Published: 
February 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
With the Project Assistance Completion Date (PACD) of the Environmental Sanitation Component of the Integrated Health and Nutrition System Project coming up at the end of 1988, a team from the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project evaluated the program for the USAID Mission in Guatemala...Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

Domestic Water Supply and Sanitation in Irrigation Projects

Published: 
May 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Serving some 880,000 ha along the Blue Nile in Sudan, the Gezira-Managil Irrigation Scheme has led to dramatic increases in occurrences of malaria, schistosomiasis, diarrhea, and other water-related diseases. This study uses Gezira-Managil as a case in point to draw the attention of project...Read more
Regional focus: 
SudanSub-Saharan Africa

Project Assistance Completion Report: Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

Published: 
December 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The seven-year Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project began in 1980 and ran through 1987 in Togo. The purpose of the project was to improve the health and living conditions of 600,000 rural persons living in the Savanna and Plateau regions of Togo by providing potable water sources and improved...Read more
Regional focus: 
TogoSub-Saharan Africa

JESS Third Consultancy Report on Water Quality and Public Health Engineering

Published: 
July 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The Jubba Environmental and Socioeconomic Studies (JESS) are jointly funded by the government of the Somali Democratic Republic (GSDR) and USAID. Technical assistance and JESS management are being provided to the Ministry of Jubba Valley Development (MJVD) by Associates in Rural Development Inc. (...Read more
Regional focus: 
SomaliaSub-Saharan Africa

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