 | The World Bank's Increased Focus on Basic Sanitation and Hygiene emphasizes that more children die from diarrhea than such killer diseases as malaria or tuberculosis. Providing basic sanitation would save many of these lives and provide dignity, better living conditions and a better environment. |
 | The Handwashing Handbook: A Guide for Developing a Hygiene Promotion Program to Increase Handwashing with Soap (1650k pdf). November 2005. English/ French/Spanish. This handbook shows how state-of-the art marketing techniques can be used to change people’s behavior. It is based on over three years of successful large-scale programs in Ghana, Madagascar, Nepal, Peru, and Senegal. The approach in this book raises awareness, enhances political commitment and resource allocation for hygiene. |
| Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion: Programming Guidance (797k pdf). 2005. The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and the World Health Organization (WHO) collaborated on the development of this practical manual that guides the reader through the process and activities of developing national sanitation and hygiene programs. |
| Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: Interventions and Diarrhoea - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (4082k pdf). July 2004. Health, Nutrition & Population Discussion Paper. Many individual studies have reported results of interventions intended to reduce illness through improvements in drinking water, sanitation facilities and hygiene practices.This paper provides a formal systematic review and meta-analysis examining the evidence of the effectiveness of these interventions. |
| Toward a Strategic Sanitation Approach: Improving the Sustainability of Urban Sanitation in Developing Countries (183k pdf). November 1997. This report introduces a strategic, demand and incentive-driven sanitation approach. The strategic sanitation approach described in this document draws on the experiences and inspiration of a number of "activist technicians". The report argues that the urban environmental sanitation crisis in developing countries is becoming increasingly more critical each year as rapid urban population growth continues to outpace investments in new or improved sanitation. |
| | The urban solid waste management website provides information on the World Bank's support to countries to collect, treat and dispose of solid wastes generated by urban population in an environmentally and socially satisfactory manner using the most economical means available. The overall goal of urban solid waste management is to collect, treat and dispose of solid wastes generated by all urban population groups in an environmentally and socially satisfactory manner. |
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