Resources
The WASH Sustainability Resource Database provides easy access to a wide range of WASH sustainability resources, aligned with the framework of the WASH Sustainability Charter and the WASH Sustainability Process. We encourage you to use this tool to discover resources that can help you to deliver more sustainable WASH programming. To add a resource, click here. To search for resources, please use the options above.
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Water Risk Atlas This tool provides geographical and sector-specific water risk context to companies and their investors, to help them measure and manage their risk exposure. |
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Developing Financing Strategies in Water Supply and Sanitation This paper provides information about financing strategies in water supply and sanitation that are realistic and meet established development objectives. |
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MajiData This database provides data on water sector in low income urban areas of Kenya presented by different geographical and jurisdictional zones. |
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Appreciative Inquiry An organizational development method that involves engaging all parts of an organization (including customers and suppliers) to renew change and improve performance. |
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Operation and maintenance of rural water supply and sanitation systems: A training package for managers and planners This training package is intended for planners and managers who are challenged by the effective implementation of WASH Operation and Maintenance services in developing countries. |
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Introductory guide to sanitation marketing This guide provides practical guidance on the design, implementation, and monitoring of rural sanitation marketing programs at scale in India, Indonesia, and Tanzania, as well as Cambodia and Peru. |
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Millennium Development Goals costing and financing spreadsheet This quantitative analysis tool is part of the Millennium Development Goal Country Status Overview (CSO) reports on water and sanitation. It calculates the investment or finance requirements for respective countries based on their MDG or country specific targets. |
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Sustainable sanitation and water management toolbox This integrative toolbox is used for capacity development at the local level. It provides a collection of tools and approaches to improve water resources management sanitation, targeting decision makers and practitioners |
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Global Water Tool This tool enables organizations to map their water use and risks relative to their global operations and supply chain. |
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USAID hygiene improvement framework (HIF) This framework is used as a model to sustainably combat diarrhea by USAID and their partners. |
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Planning and budgeting mechanisms in the Mozambique water sector This document maps the main planning and budgeting tools and mechanisms used in the water sector in Mozambique at all levels and shows how unit costs have been used and how they can influence service sustainability. |
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How to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programs This guide integrates water and sanitation activities into existing HIV/AIDS home based care programs |
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CLUES (Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation) The Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation (CLUES) approach presents comprehensive guidelines for the planning and implementation of environmental sanitation infrastructure and services in disenfranchised urban and peri-urban communities. |
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Assessing Sanitation Service Levels - Working Paper 3 This working paper sets a framework to analyze and compare sanitation cost across multiple countries that differentiate between service delivery standards |
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Lessons learned in water, sanitation and health: thirteen years of experience in developing countries. This report presents twenty lessons learned from 13 years of field work in the Water and Sanitation for Health project (USAID) focusing on sector management, donor support, local involvement user participation, program strategies, capacity building, transfer of sustainability skills, etc. |
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