For Her It’s the Big Issue – Putting Women at the Centre of Water Supply,...
This report is a collection of evidence highlighting the effect and benefits of placing women at the core of planning, implementation & operations of WASH programmes. The post For Her It’s the Big...
View ArticleEquity and Inclusion in Sanitation and Hygiene in South Asia – A Regional...
There are two facets to the problem in South Asia, both of which are unacceptable. The first is a problem of scale: 716 million men, women, and children defecate in the open every day in South Asia,...
View ArticleWSSCC Medium-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) 2012-2016
WSSCC, with its strong values base, its 20-year track record, its committed Members, donors, leadership and staff, and its position bridging the boundary of the UN system, is well-placed to contribute...
View ArticleWSSCC Medium-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) 2012-2016 – Executive Summaries
WSSCC, with its strong values base, its 20-year track record, its committed Members, donors, leadership and staff, and its position bridging the boundary of the UN system, is well-placed to contribute...
View ArticleA Systematic Review of the Health and Social Effects of Menstrual Hygiene...
Menstruation is a natural and beneficial monthly occurrence in healthy adolescent girls and pre-menopausal adult women. It concerns women and men alike as it is among the key determinants of human...
View ArticleCelebrating Womanhood – How better menstrual hygiene management is the path...
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View ArticleWSSCC Annual Report 2012
The 2012 Annual Report of WSSCC is an account of our activities and engagements over the past year. The post WSSCC Annual Report 2012 appeared first on WSSCC.
View ArticleWe Can’t Wait – A report on sanitation and hygiene for women and girls
A collaborative approach between governments, civil society and business is essential to getting the Millennium Development Goal sanitation target back on track. This is critical to improve the health...
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World Toilet Day gets UN Recognition
The international community is showing its commitment to making sanitation a global development priority by recognising ‘World Toilet Day’ (WTD) on 19 November as an official United Nations day for the...
View ArticleWASH in schools empowers girls’ education – Proceedings of the Menstrual...
Building on recommendations from the MHM 2012 virtual conference, the 2013 conference focused on the research tools and instruments being used to explore MHM barriers and practices and to evaluate the...
View ArticleWSSCC Supports Indian Government Effort to Integrate Menstrual Hygiene in Key...
On any given day, up to 350 million women and girls in India menstruate, yet across the country menstrual blood is considered impure. Girls and women are expected to hide all signs of menstruation,...
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UN Women and WSSCC partner for women and girls in West Africa
Louga, 9 March 2014 – On the margins of International Women’s Day commemoration across Senegal and West and Central Africa, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (UN...
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‘Access to water, sanitation and hygiene is more than a service, it is a...
WSSCC’s Programme Manager for Networking and Knowledge Management, Archana Patkar, has called upon water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) experts, policymakers, donors, academics and activists to treat...
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What a day! UN partners WSSCC and OHCHR gather diverse stakeholders to...
Grass-roots activists shared inspirational experiences on reducing female circumcision in Senegal, raising awareness of lesbian and transgender issues in Nepal and working for the dignity of sex...
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Equality and Non-discrimination in focus at OHCHR-WSSCC session for...
Credit: WSSCC/Pierre Virot For International Women’s Day, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will hold a...
View ArticleInspiring Change for Women’s Rights and Dignity – Meeting Report
For every woman who is unafraid and every girl who can dream, millions remain unsung and uncelebrated, caught in a bleak cycle of toil and trauma. Condemned at birth in many societies to be the helper,...
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“Menstrual Hygiene in Schools” report published
Credit: WSSCC The proceedings document is now available from a 2013 Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Virtual conference organized by UNICEF and Columbia University. WSSCC Programme Manager for...
View ArticleInformation letter 1 – Joint Programme on Gender, Hygiene and Sanitation –...
Updates from the Joint Programme on “Gender, Hygiene and Sanitation”, May 2014. The post Information letter 1 – Joint Programme on Gender, Hygiene and Sanitation – May 2014 appeared first on WSSCC.
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New UNICEF/WHO report says WASH gains mask growing inequalities
Credit: IRIN/Ahmed Dalloul Inequalities in access to clean drinking water and sanitation persist and in some cases are getting worse, although close to two billion people globally have gained access to...
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Capacity, knowledge and documentation in sanitation and hygiene – calling for...
Credit: David Boucherie More and more organisations working in sanitation and hygiene support the vision that equitable and sustainable sanitation and hygiene behaviour change and services at scale...
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