Implementing environmental sanitation reduces fecal contamination of groundwater and surface waters, and thus contributes to Ensuring Environmental Sustainability (MDG-7).
Communities use their own capacities to attain their objectives and take a central role in planning and implementing improved sanitation.
Challenge of enforcement As a first step, the recommendations from the February seminar are being presented to officials and decision-makers; they form the basis of a specific proposal for implementing sustainable sanitation in the reconstruction of Aceh and Nias.
We continue working in communities after we build a school to implement water, sanitation and hygiene programs as well as literacy-boosting technology and teacher support.
Don implemented improved sanitation and drainage as well as introducing street lighting, rebuilding St Bernard's Hospital to serve the civilian population and initiating the construction of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity to serve Gibraltar's Protestant civilians.
In 2013 UNICEF began supporting a local NGO, Tadamun Social Society (Tass) to implement a sanitation program in Shiire which includes garbage collection, school hygiene education and Community Led Total Sanitation CLTSS).
This regional publication provides a better understanding of the opportunities to successfully implement water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programmes in schools – including planning, operations, management and policy formulation.
UNICEF's Water, Environment and Sanitation section has created a web resource on School Sanitation and Hygiene Education, which outlines a skills-based approach to sanitation and hygiene, identifies specific life skills that are relevant, and provides case studies of countries already implementing skills-based sanitation and hygiene education.
Based on Oxfam's experience, Emma Feeny pointed to a useful checklist for NGOs (pdf) considering implementing a water, sanitation and hygiene programme on a PbR basis.
This paper argues that there are many challenges to designing and implementing water and sanitation interventions that actually deliver economic benefits to the households in developing countries.
