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.
How could you use these approaches in your work?
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
Our latest recommended sanitation and hygiene programme guidance and tools to end open defecation and achieve SDG 6.2.
Engaging Men and Boys for Gender-Transfo...
This issue of Frontiers of Sanitation explores the extent to which engaging…
July 2022
What is Sustainable Sanitation?
This webpage outlines the dimensions of sanitation sustainability that Sustainable Sanitation Alliance…
February 2022
Database of WASH in households
The database of WASH in households presents updated WASH figures globally, by…
A Sanitation Journey: Principles, Approa...
Aimed at those within and outside the sanitation sector, this publication presents…
A District Level Roadmap for Universal A...
This sanitation roadmap was developed to address a gap in guidance, tools…
April 2021
Monitoring and Evaluation for Rural Sani...
Watch the launch webinar here This framework is designed to be…
December 2021
Monitoring and Evaluation for Rural Sani...
Watch the launch webinar here: The monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Guidelines and…
December 2021
COVID-19 Inclusive WASH Checklist
The Hygiene Hub recommends using the COVID-19 Inclusive WASH Checklist which was…
November 2020
