 | Lessons Learned from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan; Scaling-Up Rural Sanitation in South Asia (1,200k pdf). May 2005. This regional study draws up policy recommendations for large-scale rural sanitation programs in South Asia where more than 900 million people (66 percent of the total population) remain without access to adequate sanitation. The main objectives of the study are to: i) To develop case studies of innovative approaches to rural sanitation in South Asia; ii) To analyze the factors of success (and constraints) found in these case studies. |
 | Sanitation and Hygiene at the World Bank: An Analysis of Current Activities (203k pdf). Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Board Working Note, Paper No. 6, November 2005. This report reviews the current World Bank portfolio in sanitation and hygiene. It looks particularly closely at the degree to which the Bank’s activities support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target of halving the fraction of the world’s population without access to basic sanitation by 2015, and the constraints to increasing support to that aim. |
 | The School Sanitation Toolkit. 2005. The Toolkit presents theory, concepts, and ideas to help professionals develop the solutions that are most appropriate for the specific program setting. Provides: a) information on the basic principles (policy environment; life skills education; technology options; financing options; inclusion and participation; capacity building), b) sector assessment, c) project cycle, and d) list of resources. |
| The Case for Marketing Sanitation (630k pdf). August 2004. This report explains marketing approaches and suggests that they should be promoted as a central feature of sanitation programs. The publication also focuses on the benefits of sanitation, the significance of marketing for sanitation and the role of public sector. It is emphasized that the marketing of sanitation offers a whole new approach to ensuring that people get toilets. |
| The Challenge of Financing Sanitation for Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (456k pdf). April 2004. This report highlights the resource challenges to achieving sanitation MDGs and explores the opportunities for increasing resource flows, both from leveraging household and other private resources. It argues that increasing recognition on how sanitation directly impacts on health, improved living conditions, education outcomes and poverty reduction has intensified the advocacy for markedly improved sanitation access. |
| The Environment Strategy Note No. 8 (141k pdf). October 2003. This report reviews the World Bank's urban environment project portfolio, with special focus on the contributions of the World Bank's various sectors and on the achievement of the urban environmental targets set forth in the MDGs. The note also argues for a more comprehensive and holistic approach to urban environmental priorities. |
RSS