"sanitation sector" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is most commonly used when discussing industries or systems related to public health and hygiene. Example: The government has allocated a large budget towards improving the sanitation sector in rural areas, which has greatly reduced the spread of diseases among the local population.
Guy Norman, head of evaluation and research, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor The financing gap in the water and sanitation sector alone has recently been estimated at around $27 bn per year over the SDG period.
We need one change so great that it requires a complete transformation of the water and sanitation sector, and how it is financed.
It allows for better data analysis, addresses monitoring and verification issues and can help with building a customer database for the local sanitation sector.
It can increase drug effectiveness by reducing diarrhoea and collaboration between HIV specialists at Safaids and in the water and sanitation sector have identified ways to integrate water and HIV programming more effectively in southern Africa to streamline investments.
Ever since the re-branding and re-launch of the Indian government's flagship sanitation campaign, the Swachh Bharat Mission, the country's sanitation sector has been galvanised to debate and take action with a sense of urgency.
Folks in the water and sanitation sector could help promote the importance of raising more domestic revenue by combating tax evasion and avoidance, and push for some of that money to go towards water and sanitation projects.
"The government came up with a plan of action to get everyone in the country to stop practising open defecation, and made sure that donors contributing to the sanitation sector also followed the same plan.
The research showed that "smart subsidies" approach can work well for triggering interest and building the capacity of microfinance organisations in the sanitation sector, but support will be needed to scale up these activities over time.
In Liberia, we have seen important gains in reducing child mortality and an increase in budgetary government funding to the water and sanitation sector, from $200,000 in 2006 to $524,000 last year.
The idea we submitted to the hackathon stemmed from what we've observed as a lack of data on households' investment and recurrent expenditure on latrines, despite the fact that they often represent a major proportion of total investment in the sanitation sector.
The current state of the water and sanitation sector has put water-related innovations high on the global policy agenda.
