Sanitation Updates

This is the background paper by Christine Sijbesma for the South Asian Sanitation and Hygiene Practitioners’ Workshop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 29-31 January 2008. The workshop was organised by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, WaterAid and BRAC.

This background paper focuses on household sanitation. School sanitation has been purposely left out as an area deserving systematic review on its own. The paper gives an overview of what has been achieved in South Asia and what has not, or insufficiently, been addressed. It also identifies four suggested areas for regional cooperation. The overall aim is not only achieving the MDG target of halving the number of people without a sanitary toilet, but universal use and basic hygiene as well as well-sustained facilities and programmes. Fulfilling these aims requires large-scale, cost-effective approaches and validated outcomes.

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