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Key Issues and Collections
Climate change
We need to move fast to mainstream climate change into planning for sanitation and hygiene access. In a challenging landscape, where do we start?
COVID 19
Social Science research to inform the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic
Health systems in fragile and conflict affected settings
What evidence exists for strengthening health systems in fragile and conflict-affected states
Nutrition
How to design agriculture and food-related policies, programmes and interventions to improve nutrition.
Latest documents
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Sanitation Programmes Throughout and Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic
G. Melloni / The Sanitation Learning Hub, 2021In discussions on sanitation and Covid-19, the continuity of long-term sanitation goals throughout and beyond the pandemic is often missing. To respond to this gap, the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH) and UNICEF hosted a webinar series to share knowledge and experience on ways programmes have changed and adapted.DocumentSanitation Programmes Throughout and Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic
G. Melloni / The Sanitation Learning Hub, 2021In discussions on sanitation and Covid-19, the continuity of long-term sanitation goals throughout and beyond the pandemic is often missing. To respond to this gap, the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH) and UNICEF hosted a webinar series to share knowledge and experience on ways programmes have changed and adapted.DocumentAdolescence in the Time of COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh
Baird, S., Seager, J., Sabarwal, S., Guglielmi, S. / Overseas Development Institute, 2020This note examines the effects of COVID-19 and subsequent economic and educational disruptions on adolescent well-being in Bangladesh. Findings show large household-level economic impacts associated with increased food insecurity, anxiety, and mental health issues among adolescents.DocumentSanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Cleanliness for Child Development
A. Macintyre, C. Strachan / The Sanitation Learning Hub, 2021This Frontiers of Sanitation draws on the Transformative WASH concept to explore and outline what may be required of WASH implementation stakeholders in efforts to support child development outcomes. The Frontiers explores the multiple ways in which inadequate sanitation, hygiene, and environmental cleanliness can affect physical and cognitive development in children.Document“The Door has Opened”: Moving Forward with Menstrual Health Programming in Bangladesh
M. Coultas, M. Das, E. Nur, S. Warrington / International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 2021This article examines and reflects upon the Menstrual Health (MH) landscape and programming in Bangladesh, assessing the progress, challenges, and potential ways forward.DocumentStrengthening Sub-National Systems for Area-Wide Sanitation and Hygiene
Mimi Coultas / 2021Following widespread decentralisation reforms, including across Africa, responsibility for sanitation & hygiene (S&H) often sits with sub-national governments.
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19 November 2021The original blog post appeared on the Towards Brown Gold website. -
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7 October 2021Earlier this year, the Sanitation Learning Hub team published a call for applicants to undertake a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) audit of the programme to identify how GESI issues are addressed in our activities and internal orga
What's new
4th January 2022
A large part of the Sanitation Learning Hub’s (SLH) work is around research and learning to support gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in sanitation and hygiene programming.
5th November 2021
Click here to register for the webinarIt has been a long-standing goal of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) professionals to improve the health and lives of children.
26th August 2021
The Sanitation Learning Hub is looking to capture country level and regional experiences, ideas, challenges and innovations from sanitation and hygiene practitioners through a series of blogs or short recordings.
6th July 2021
Join the Sanitation Learning Hub for a webinar on climate change and rural sanitation – putting ideas into practice.
30th April 2021
Researchers from the Sanitation Learning Hub have published a new report providing evidence and practical guidance for adapting projects to make them sustainable for the future.