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Summarizes the findings of lessons learned exercise conducted by the Global Education Cluster on its joint response to floods in July 2010, in collaboration with Save the Children and UNICEF. It also provides recommendations to improve future responses to emergencies. Executive Summary The worst...

Explores the relationship between horizontal inequality (i.e., inequalities between ethnic, religious, and subnational groups) in education and violent conflict, exploring three questions in particular: 1. Does education inequality between ethnic and religious groups increase the likelihood of...

The four-year Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing (TSSM) project is now in its third year of implementation in India, Indonesia and Tanzania. In East Java, Indonesia, it is demonstrating a combination of innovative approaches at a province-wide scale, in partnership with the national...

Solving for Water Security in a Micro-Watershed: Modeling Environmental Sustainability of Community Drinking Water Solutions in India This field insight describes how Safe Water Network's Water Resource Management team in India measured the hydrologic footprint of multiple Stations in a micro...

The report reviews the role of local government in the area of WASH in the context of the management models that TSSM is using in all three countries. Executive Summary The World Bank administered Water and Sanitation Pro- gram (WSP) recently passed the mid-point of the four-year timeframe for its...

Factors Associated with Achieving and Sustaining Open Defecation Free Communities: Learning from East Java The Water and Sanitation Program’s (WSP) Global Scaling Up Rural Sanitation Project, a learning-by-doing initiative implemented in partnership with local and national governments in Indonesia...

This case study describes the CHAST methodology, which is part of an integrated approach working on different but parallel levels for greater impact. The challenge: education for behaviours Children need to do things—to participate—and not only memorize facts if they are to develop consistent...

ABSTRACT In Uganda disposal of human excreta has been done since the 1950s through the use of pit latrines. In the 1990s, the pit latrine designs were modified to remove fly nuisance and smell through the use of what is known as ventilated improved pit (VIP) latrines. While the VIP works well on a...