Documents & Reports
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Building rural sanitation capacity nationwide in Indonesia (English)
Since 2007, the World Bank Group’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has provided technical assistance to the Government of Indonesia to help develop and shape the implementation of its national rural...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 108376 Document Date: August 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kasri,Rahmi Yetri,Setiawan,Deviariandy,Oka,Nyoman,Rand,Emily Christensen,Smets,Susanna
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How sustainable are sanitation outcomes in clean village prize winners? : findings of a large-scale rapid assessment in India (English)
In the Indian federal structure, rural sanitation is a state government responsibility. However, since this sector has been identified as a development priority, the Government of India provides the bulk...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 110905 Document Date: June 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Understanding determinants of access to hygienic latrines for rural households in Vietnam : from research findings to campaign development (English)
Vietnam has achieved impressive results in increasing sanitation coverage. In 1990, only 31 percent of rural households had access to improved sanitation. By 2015, this rate had increased to 70 percent...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 108375 Document Date: June 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nguyen,Nga Kim,Nguyen,Hang Diem,Gerwel-Jensen, Lene,Nguyen,Minh Thi Hien,Nam, Doung Chi
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Changing behaviors to scale up rural sanitation : lessons from learning laboratories in the Philippines (English)
In the Philippines, only 71 percent of the rural population or approximately 72 million people have access to safe or improved sanitation. This leaves around 10 million people practicing open defecation...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 104129 Document Date: January 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Galing,Edkarl M.,Gabe,Vida Zorah S.
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Beyond one-size-fits-all : Lessons learned from eight water utility Public-Private Partnerships in the Philippines (English)
At a macro level, the Philippines has made impressive progress in water supply provision: nationally, 92 percent of individuals have access to improved water sources, and the number of households with...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 98432 Document Date: May 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castro,Aileen Bolus,Jagannathan,Vijay,Romero-Navarro,Mariles
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Making toilets more affordable for the poor through microfinance : lessons learned from introducing microfinance loans for sanitation in rural Cambodia (English)
From 2000 to 2012, access to sanitation in Cambodia's rural areas increased by only 1 percent per year (JMP, 2014). By 2012, 75 percent of rural Cambodians lacked access to improved sanitation, and 66...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 92034 Document Date: August 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kov,Phyrum,Newman, Adam,Smets,Susanna
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Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project : results, impacts, and learning from Vietnam : Du an Rua tay voi Xa phong Mo rong Toan cau : ket qua , tac dong va kinh nghiem o Viet Nam (Vietnamese)
The Vietnam Handwashing Initiative (HWI) began in January 2006 with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality from diarrheal diseases in children less than five years of age. In December 2006, Vietnam...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 73134 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nguyen, Nga Kim - Devine, Jacqueline
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Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project : results, impacts, and learning from Vietnam (English)
The Vietnam Handwashing Initiative (HWI) began in January 2006 with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality from diarrheal diseases in children less than five years of age. In December 2006, Vietnam...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 73134 Document Date: September 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nguyen, Nga Kim - Devine, Jacqueline
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Behavioral determinants of handwashing with soap among mothers and caretakers : emergent learning from Senegal and Peru (English)
The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has supported the Global Scaling up Handwashing Project in Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Vietnam. The project has tested whether innovative promotional approaches...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 66913 Document Date: February 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Using credit ratings to improve water utility access to market finance in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is working to leverage domestic private sector expertise and resources to deliver services that benefit the poor. The aim is to help an estimated 1.5 million poor people...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 67410 Document Date: February 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Advani,Rajesh K.
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Vietnam - A handwashing behavior change journey for the caretakers' program (English)
The Vietnam Handwashing Initiative (HWI) was launched in January 2006 by the Ministry of Health (MoH) with funds from the Danish Embassy in Vietnam and technical assistance from the Water and Sanitation...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 66306 Document Date: December 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Scaling up rural sanitation : partnering on the road towards achieving total sanitation in East Africa (English)
In 2000, the United Nations Development Program set a Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce, by half, the number of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015. In 2008, when projections showed...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 72097 Document Date: November 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Tanzania - A handwashing behavior change journey (English)
In Tanzania, nearly 30,000 people die annually due to diarrheal diseases and an estimated 12.6 percent of children suffer from diarrheal diseases. There is a widespread and deep-rooted belief that diarrhea...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 64855 Document Date: October 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Learning by doing : working at scale in Ethiopia (English)
In 2005, an estimated 15.2 million people or 80 percent of the total population of the Amhara Region in Ethiopia lived in rural areas where sanitation-related indicators were low. Open defecation was common;...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 64289 Document Date: July 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Communications for development of water, sanitation, and infrastructure projects (English)
Ten years after the World Bank institutionalized the use of Communications for Development, the Water and Sanitation Program for Latin America and the Caribbean and the World Bank office in Peru held the...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 72090 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Domestic private sector participation in Peru : sanitation markets at the bottom of the pyramid - a win-win scenario for government, the private sector, and communities (English)
Peru has benefitted from macroeconomic stability and growth in the last few years. At the same time, it also presents important contradictions in terms of unresolved access to basic sanitation. This is...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 72148 Document Date: June 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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The hard way to the high road : transition of community-based water groups to professional service providers in Indonesia (English)
As significant numbers of Indonesian villages are outside the reach of utility service, since the 1990s the Government of Indonesia (Government) has been supporting the construction of village water infrastructure...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 59088 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sy,Jemima T.
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Global scaling up sanitation : utilizing community-based registers to monitor improved access to sanitation and hygiene in Tanzania (English)
In Tanzania, the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) has been supporting the Government of Tanzania in 10 districts to increase access to improved sanitation. This initiative to improve rural sanitation...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 59229 Document Date: January 1, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Output-based aid and sustainable sanitation (English)
Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), in association with the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), initiated a study to examine whether OBA has the potential to improve the delivery of public...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 57954 Document Date: November 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Senegal - Global Scaling Up Handwashing Project : a handwashing behavior change journey (English)
In 2003, the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap (PPPHW) was created in Senegal with technical assistance from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). Housed initially within the Office...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 56910 Document Date: September 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed