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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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Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool
Joanna Mott, Heather Brown, Di Kilsby, Tshering Choden, Emily Eller / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2021An intentional focus on gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) is key to sustainable and effective WASH projects. This guidance is for staff of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) implementation and research projects and organisations, who are committed to improving the practice of GESI in their projects and organisations. What is this tool for?DocumentClimate Change 2021: The Physical Science Bias
/ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2021The Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.DocumentChallenges for Community‐based Adaptation: Discovering the Potential for Transformation
David Dodman, Diana Mitlin / Wiley Online Library, 2011This paper considers community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change and its relationship to the theory and practice of participatory development.DocumentClimate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook,
/ Care International - rights based approach resource centre, 2019The Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis (CVCA) is a CARE tool used to gather and analyze information on community-level vulnerabilities to and capacities for climate change. It informs the identification of actions, at the community level or more broadly, that support communities in increasing their resilience to climate change.DocumentBringing Innovation to Scale: Resilience to Climate Change
/ Care International - rights based approach resource centre, 2016As part of CARE’s community-based adaptation (CBA) learning agenda, this report synthesises key findings, lessons and recommendations from its portfolio of CBA projects in Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu and Vietnam. Through the review and analysis of different approaches and models, this paper considers where and how approaches have been effective; how these are linked to project impacts;DocumentAdaptive Capacity: Exploring the Research Frontier
Colette Mortreux, Jon Barnett / Wiley Online Library, 2017In the past 15 years there has been rapid growth in research on adaptive capacity. This article critically reviews this literature, describing changes in the field over time, and highlighting the new frontiers in research.
Blog
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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 -
23 November 2020A new IDS-led research project seeks to re-imagine sanitation in rapidly urbanising areas in Asia and Africa to help address the sanitation crisis, enhance off–grid economies and improve the well-being of poor and vulnerable women and men, and marginalised communities such as Dalits, migrants, sanitation workers and refugees. -
1 July 2020Never has the need for social protection been greater. In response to the economic and social fallout of Covid-19, almost every country in the world has introduced or expanded programmes that support those who are most vulnerable.
What's new
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.
10th February 2021
“I’m only a child and I don’t have all the solutions, but I want you to realise, neither do you.”
Severn Cullis-Suzuki, 12 years old, Rio Earth Summit, 1992
6th January 2021
Gain the skills and knowledge to more effectively shape policy with evidence with IDS's online short course.