Health

According to the Centers for Disease Control, global access to safe water, adequate sanitation, and proper hygiene education can reduce illness and death from disease, leading to improved health, poverty reduction, and socio-economic development. Resources available in this sub-theme include guidance on installation of cost-effective safe water supply systems and latrines, summaries of health improvements following WASH projects, and other resources that can help to improve the understanding of the health implications of WASH projects.

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American Refugee Committee: Mozambique Program 1993-1996: Final Program Report

Published: 
October 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
The program concentrated on improving rural sanitation and health knowledge and behaviors, providing clean drinking water, and furnishing expanded opportunities for formal health care and formal education through the construction of health facilities and schools.Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Sofala Province Integrated Health, Water and Sanitation Project: Final Report

Published: 
January 1, 1996
U.S. Agency for International Development
Final report by Africare on a project (7/93-9/96) to reduce water-borne and other diarrheal diseases in selected peri-urban and rural populations in Beira and Chibabava District, Sofala Province, Mozambique. In 5/94, the WASH project, which had spearheaded the original project design, redirected...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Redirection Plan for The Health, Water, and Sanitation Project, Mozambique

Published: 
April 1, 1994
U.S. Agency for International Development
In February 1993 WASH published a report entitled "Water Shortage and Related Public Health Problems: An Action Plan for the City of Beira, Mozambique" (WASH Field Report No. 389). in response to this plan, Africare wrote the grant proposal, "The Sofala Province Integrated Health,...Read more
Regional focus: 
MozambiqueSub-Saharan Africa

Water and Sanitation for Health and Ecuadorian Development

Published: 
July 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
Midterm evaluation of a project to strengthen the capability of Ecuador's Institute of Sanitary Works (IEOS) to assist rural communities in eight provinces (Carchi, Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Azuay, and El Oro) to: (1) install cost-effective, safe water supply...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Evaluation of USAID/Ecuador - Water and Sanitation for Ecuadorian Health and Development (WASHED) Project

Published: 
March 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this evaluation is to review the progress of the WASHED Project and make recommendations for its continuation or termination by the date of 12-31-93 which is provided for in the Project agreement. This review must determine the degree of design adaptation; the degree of attainment...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Water Quality Assessment in Ecuador

Published: 
February 1, 1993
U.S. Agency for International Development
As part of A.I.D.'s response to the El Tor cholera epidemic which arrived in Ecuador in 1991, a multidisciplinary team from the Water and Sanitation for Health (WASH) Project conducted a cholera assessment of the country. The team reviewed conditions at both the national level and in three...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Rethinking Sanitation: Adding Behavioral Change to The Project Mix

Published: 
July 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
All too often, water and sanitation projects focus on new facilities to the neglect of sanitation and hygiene behaviors. This study makes a case for letting the determination of what behavioral sanitation changes may reasonably be introduced within the cultural and religious milieu of the target...Read more

Assessment of Interagency Collaboration in the Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project and Its Guinea Worm Reduction Component

Published: 
May 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The joint-agency Benin Rural Water and Sanitation Project successfully provided the northern Zou Province with 281 positive wells in villages that received training for social mobilization, pump maintenance and intensive health education.Read more
Regional focus: 
BeninSub-Saharan Africa

Grant Agreement between the Republic of Guatemala and the United States of America for the Highlands Water and Sanitation Project

Published: 
August 1, 1991
U.S. Agency for International Development
The grant agreement for the Highlands Water and Sanitation project, which consisted of assistance to the Guatemalan government to decrease the incidence of gastrointestinal disease in communities through the provision of potable water systems and latrines supported by a health education program.Read more
Regional focus: 
GuatemalaLatin America and the Caribbean

Project Assistance Completion Report: Rural Water Supply and Sanitation

Published: 
December 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
The seven-year Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project began in 1980 and ran through 1987 in Togo. The purpose of the project was to improve the health and living conditions of 600,000 rural persons living in the Savanna and Plateau regions of Togo by providing potable water sources and improved...Read more
Regional focus: 
TogoSub-Saharan Africa

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