WASH Integration

WASH-IntegrationIntegrating WASH Across Development Sectors

Public Health, HIV/AIDS, Food Security/Nutrition, Education, Environment

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This document describes the positive effects of safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions across a variety of development priorities. This partial list of research findings demonstrates that incorporating WASH into public health, HIV/AIDS, food security / nutrition, education and other programming can make progress toward all of these efforts more successful initially─and more sustainable over the long run. The sections below detail the consequences of unsafe WASH across sectors, as well as the benefits gained from integration.

Prepared by Jennifer Platt at WASH Advocates, 202-293-4048, jplatt@WASHadvocates.org.

[This is a work in progress. We welcome updates and will incorporate them as appropriate.]

Contents:

I.            Introduction

II.           Child/Maternal Health and WASH

III.          Diarrhea and WASH

IV.           Nutrition/Food Security and WASH

V.            Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and WASH

VI.           HIV/AIDS and WASH

VII.          Education/Schools and WASH

VIII.         Environmental Conservation and WASH

IX.            Economic Growth/Aid Independence/Return on Investment and WASH

 

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