Water, Sanitation, Hygiene

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. However, many countries are challenged to provide these basic necessities to their populations, leaving people at risk for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)-related diseases. Resources available within this theme offer information on providing access to safe water and appropriate sanitation facilities, and introducing sound hygiene behaviors.

Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Resources

Benin Rural Water Supply

Published: 
February 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
Summarizes two evaluations -- a final external evaluation (PD-ABD-903) and a sustainability assessment PN-ABN-080) -- of a project (1980-9/92) to assist the Government of Benin (GRB) in improving the health and living conditions of the rural population of the northern Zou department by increasing...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

AID Grant No. 615-0236-G-00-3045-00 to Plan International USA to Increase Community Usership of Borehole Water and Encourage Sustainable Maintenance of The Boreholes in Kenya

Published: 
July 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Grant is provided under the PVO Co-Financing Project to Plan International for a follow-on project to develop community-based water organizations at 120 borehole sites in Kenya. The 120 boreholes were drilled by PLAN during Phase I. to develop community water organizations that are capable of...Read more
Regional focus: 
KenyaSub-Saharan Africa

Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: an Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique

Published: 
February 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Several years of below-average rainfall have produced record-low flows in the Pungoe River , Beira's only surface water supply. While sufficient in quantity to meet Beira's supply needs, these low flows fail to prevent saltwater from reaching the intake, some 77 km from the mouth of the...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Drought Relief Assistance to the Water Supply Task Force of the National Consultative Forum on the Drought (Republic of South Africa)

Published: 
February 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Southern Africa has been experiencing one of the worst droughts of the century. Due to an unusual shortfall of rain during late 1991 and early 1992, the Republic of South Africa held a National Drought Emergency Conference on June 13-14, 1992. The conference established a National Consultative...Read more
Regional focus: 
South AfricaSub-Saharan Africa

PRE/CAP: Prefeasibility Studies in East and Southern Africa, Phase I Report

Published: 
October 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
In late 1991, the Regional Economic Development Services Office, East and Southern Africa (REDSO/ESA) began an initiative to identify capital projects in the water and sanitation (W&S) sector, among other, and to suggest possible uses for a special appropriation of $650 million under study by...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Sustainability Assessment for the Benin Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project

Published: 
August 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The sustainability of the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project, scheduled for completion 9/92, is assessed. The project has successfully constructed wells and demonstration latrines; provided training to village health committees, government extension workers, and pump repair workers; and...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Project Assistance Completion Report: Benin Rural Water Supply

Published: 
August 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
PACR of a multidonor project, implemented in coordination with UNICEF and the Peace Corps, to improve water supply and sanitation in the Zou department in northern Benin. The report covers the period 8/80-9/92, including a 4-year suspension from 12/81-12/85. The project was a success. Reliable...Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

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

O&M Strategy for Rural Water Supply in Zaire -- Phase II: Set Up of Operational Tests

Published: 
April 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
The primary objective of the second phase of the WASH assignment is to test selected recommendations to improve O&M capabilities In Zaire. The test results will be analyzed and integrated into revised O&M programs for capped springs, gravity-fed piped water systems, and boreholes with hand...Read more
Regional focus: 
Congo, Democratic Republic of theSub-Saharan Africa

Aquaculture Research and Development in Rural Africa

Published: 
April 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
Aquaculture development in Africa has lagged far behind that in other developing regions while human needs for additional protein are just as urgent. This volume reports results from an international conference convened in Zomba, Malawi, that reviewed the progress of the first three years of ICLARM...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

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