Practical Support
Practical tools and recommended approaches to help sanitation and hygiene practitioners do their work well.
Adaptable, ‘combinable’ learning and sanitation approaches will be essential to end open defecation and meet the increasingly complex challenges of SDG 6.2.
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Context specific and adaptive approaches
Context specific and adaptive ‘umbrella’ approaches are vital in assessing which combination of learning and sanitation approaches are most suitable. Approaches need to be adapted to diverse contexts, to meet local challenges and needs, and to make sure we leave no one behind.
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Learning approaches >
Explore participatory, action-orientated research and learning approaches we champion and use ourselves, including Rapid Action Learning (RAL) approaches created by the Sanitation Learning Hub.
- Context analysis
- Rapid Action Learning approaches
- Visual methods
- Learning from failure
- Immersive approaches
Sanitation approaches >
Some of the most successful rural and urban sanitation approaches, including area-wide approaches rolling out sanitation programming across larger regions.
Rural Sanitation
Urban Sanitation
Latest guidance and tools
Most recently added programme guidance and tools to end open defecation and achieve SDG 6.2.
Applying Evidence to Policy and Practice...
WASHPaLS was a 5-year USAID project (2016 to 2022) designed to generate…
February 2022
Gender Equality, Disability and Social I...
The Gender Equality Disability and Social Inclusion Self-Assessment Tool (GEDSI SAT) is a facilitation…
April 2025
Achieving Safely Managed Sanitation in R...
It is estimated that over one million preventable deaths occur each year…
December 2024
The potential of participatory video ac...
Sanitation and hygiene issues often deal with uncomfortable, hidden and sometimes taboo…
September 2024
Financing Sanitation in Sub-Sahara Afric...
This guide provides practical decision-making tools for identifying the type of financing…
May 2011
Free course: Finance for sustainable WAS...
This free online course aims to equip learners with skills in sustainable…
February 2023
Developing WASH Finance Strategies: A Gu...
This guide supports the expansion of the critically needed water, sanitation, and…
September 2022
Learning from and preventing failure in ...
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) failures continue to be discussed mostly off…
February 2023
Disability Inclusive WASH Checklist
More attention has been given to disability in WASH policies and programmes….
December 2022
Engaging Men and Boys for Gender-Transfo...
This issue of Frontiers of Sanitation explores the extent to which engaging…
July 2022
