Documents & Reports
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Behavioral Insights for the Water Sector : Improving Outcomes by Changing Mindsets (English)
Challenges in infrastructure sectors go beyond financing and can benefit from a rethink. Behavioral economics has encouraged a broader understanding of human decision making that can be applied to bottlenecks...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 180416 Document Date: November 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
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Applying a Behavioral Lens to the Sanitation Sector (English)
Despite considerable efforts to reach the sustainable development goal (SDG) target 6.2, about 2.3 million people globally still lack basic sanitation services and only 39 percent of the global population...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 180351 Document Date: November 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
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Applying a Behavioral Lens to the Water Sector (English)
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) for water are a greater challenge than the millennium development goals (MDGs) before them. In addition to the addressing the funding gap, existing investments...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 180352 Document Date: November 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
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Cholera Risk in Lusaka : A Geospatial Analysis to Inform Improved Water and Sanitation Provision (English)
Urbanization combined with climate change are exacerbating water scarcity for an increasing number of the world’s emerging cities. Water and sanitation infrastructure, which in the first place was largely...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10469 Document Date: June 5, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Gething,Peter William,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Mugabi,Josses,Muximpua,Odete Duarte,Joseph,George,Kagulura,Solomon Sitinadziwe
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The Importance of Maintenance : Geospatial Analysis of Cholera Risk and Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Harare, Zimbabwe (English)
Understanding the specific factors associated with cholera outbreaks is an integral part of designing better approaches to mitigate their impact. This paper uses georeferenced case data from the cholera...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10327 Document Date: February 28, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: George Joseph,Sveta Milusheva,Sturrock,Hugh James William,Kashangura,Faith Maidei,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Hoo,Yi Rong
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Estimating spatially disaggregated probability of severe COVID-19 and the impact of handwashing interventions : The case of Zimbabwe (English)
The severity of COVID-19 disease varies substantially between individuals, with some infections being asymptomatic while others are fatal. Several risk factors have been identified that affect the progression...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10328 Document Date: February 28, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: George Joseph,Sveta Milusheva,Sturrock,Hugh James William,Mapako,Tonderai,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Hoo,Yi Rong
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Behavioral Insights in Infrastructure Sectors : A Survey (English)
In the past two decades, insights from behavioral sciences, particularly behavioral economics, have been widely applied in the design of social programs such as pensions, social security, and taxation...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9704 Document Date: June 21, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Miquel-Florensa,Pepita,Bejarano,Hernán D.,Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
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Embedding Evidence in the Water Sector Summary Report (English)
Chapter one posits that many of the challenges that the infrastructure sectors face could benefit from the use of a behavioral lens. It outlines a theoretical framework to view infrastructure challenges...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 158731 Document Date: January 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph, George,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Miquel-Florensa, Pepita,Bejarano,Hernan Daniel,Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo,Hoo,Yi Rong
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An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics (English)
Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8924 Document Date: June 27, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Alam,Bushra Binte,Shrestha,Anne,Islam,Khairul,Lahiri,Santanu,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi
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Why Do So Many Water Points Fail in Tanzania ? An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors (English)
According to the 2015 Tanzania Water Point Mapping data, about 29 percent of all water points are non-functional, out of which 20 percent failed within the first year. This paper analyzes the various factors...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8729 Document Date: February 5, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Andres,Luis Alberto,Chellaraj,Gnanaraj,Grabinsky Zabludovsky,Jonathan,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Hoo,Yi Rong
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Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania : A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey (English)
Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million children under the age of five failing to reach their full potential of growth attainment...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8688 Document Date: January 3, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Gething,Peter William,Bhatt,Samir,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi
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Reaching for the SDGs : the untapped potential of Tanzania’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector (English)
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 124255 Document Date: March 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Haque,Sabrina Sharmin,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi
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Promising progress : a diagnostic of water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and poverty in Bangladesh (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (English)
This summary report presents the findings of the Bangladesh WASH Poverty Diagnostic (BWPD) study led by the World Bank's Water and Poverty Global Practices. Though very few Bangladeshis now fetch water...
Document Type: Other Poverty Study Report No.: 124159 Document Date: March 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Haque,Sabrina Sharmin,Yoshida,Nobuo,Yanez Pagans,Monica,Sohag,Md Kutub Uddin Bakhtiar,Moqueet,Nazia Sultana,Smith,Dustin Andrew,Lahiri,Santanu,Ellery,Mark,Sen,Somnath,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi
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Urban water and sanitation in Tanzania : remaining challenges to providing safe, reliable, and affordable services for all (English)
This brief draws from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) report (World Bank, forthcoming), an initiative of the World Bank Water Global Practice (GP), which brings together analytics from across...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 123627 Document Date: February 1, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Haque,Sabrina Sharmin,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi
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WASH for human development : can scaling up Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions help children grow in Tanzania? (English)
This brief highlights recent analyses from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) on trends in undernutrition over the years and among income groups. The analysis also identifies key drivers of high...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 120327 Document Date: September 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Joseph,George,Haque,Sabrina Sharmin,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Vinha, Katia,Gething,Peter William,Newman,John Lincoln,Larenas Gonzalez,Maria Isabel
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Reaching for the SDGs : the untapped potential of Tanzania’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector - executive summary (English)
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 120166 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Haque,Sabrina Sharmin,Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi,Joseph,George