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Expanding Coverage and Promoting Sustainability of WASH Infrastructure and Hygiene Investments in Madagascar

To meet demand for access to clean water and hygienic sanitation options in a country severely lacking in both, some USAID-funded water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects in Madagascar have been exploring public-private solutions to increase access to clean water and sanitation facilities. These include newly constructed or rehabilitated fee-for-use public sanitation WASH blocks and water kiosks, provided in strategic locations in peri-urban areas with assistance from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and supplemental assistance from WASHplus.

Partnerships: A Key Strategy to Increase Impact and Results, A Learning Brief

Partnerships: A Key Strategy to Increase Impact and Results, Learning Brief, 2016. WASHplus supports USAID’s commitment to strategic and creative partnering in WASH and clean cooking to improve sector cooperation, harmonization, collaboration, and effectiveness. This brief reflects on WASHplus’s varied experiences creating and maintaining partnerships and consolidates our lessons learned.

Good Governance: A Core Component of WASH Project Implementation, A Learning Brief

Good Governance: A Core Component of WASH Project Implementation, Learning Brief, 2016. This brief describes how WASHplus supported district governments to improve basic service delivery, strengthen community-level institutions, advocate for pro-poor policy reforms, and enhance collaborations in its country programs.

WASHplus Country Snapshots and Results (2016)

WASHplus Country Snapshots and Results, 2016. This document provides a summary of country interventions and a snapshot of results as of 2015. Each WASHplus intervention is tailored to address the unique needs of a given country—whether it be improving school WASH, enhancing household sanitation options, or marketing improved cookstoves.

Breastfeeding Baseline Survey in Mali

This report presents the findings of a baseline survey conducted in three districts in the Mopti Region in Mali: Mopti, Bandiagara, and Bankass. The survey was used to assess the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding of children under 6 months and dietary supplementation in children 6 to 24 months.

Trained artisans are a key recipe for sustainability in Zambia’s Eastern Province

Through training and mentoring, the project created a cadre of professionals ready to repair SPLASH-installed infrastructure as the need arises.

WASHplus Year Five Annual Report, October 2015

At the end of its fifth year, WASHplus has stories to tell, results to share, events to celebrate, and studies that add to the evidence base. WASHplus activities serve as the backdrop for many stories: the Zambian school girl who has access to privacy and menstrual supplies when she needs them, the Malian household that can now build an improved latrine on their rocky soil, the mother in Bangladesh who understands the importance of a feces-free environment, the Nepali home breathing cleaner air as it trials an improved cookstove.

SACOSAN 6: Changing WASH Practices in Southwest Bangladesh, One Small Doable Action at a Time

WASHplus's Julia Rosenbaum co-presented a paper on "Changing WASH Practices in Southwest Bangladesh– One Small Doable Action at a Time" at SACOSAN 6 in Dhaka in January 2016. An abstract for the paper is provide below. Read the paper here. Abstract The global USAID WASHplus Project successfully increased access to water, sanitation and hygiene by applying a comprehensive and innovative approach in hard-to-reach areas of southwest Bangladesh.

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