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New Resource ‘Raising the bar and expanding the scope’ at Stockholm World Water Week

August 31, 2016

With the agreement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community set its intentions for how it wants the world to look in 2030. But, this reality won’t be achieved without hard work, smart collaborations, and significant funding. Unsurprisingly, this has been a major […]

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New Resource Cholera and Handwashing Fact Sheet

August 9, 2016

A PDF version of this fact sheet can be accessed here. Cholera is a diarrheal disease that has a substantial impact on public health. Each year, it affects the lives of millions of people, especially those who live in conditions that are not conducive to practicing […]

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New Resource Silos should be used for storing grain, not delivering development programs

June 16, 2016

By Hanna Woodburn On June 13, 2016 FHI 360 hosted Greater than the Sum of its Parts, a first-ever FHI 360 summit on integrated development. Over the past two years, FHI 360 has embarked on a journey to dig deep into both the “why” and […]

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New Resource WASH Wednesday at 2016 Women Deliver

May 19, 2016

Wednesday morning at Women Deliver started early with a breakfast lunch hosted by WaterAid, the UN Foundation, and Intrahealth that posed the provocative question: “Would you give birth without clean water, soap and a toilet?” At this session, panelists addressed the lack of access to […]

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New Resource When the World Invests in WASH, Everyone Wins

May 17, 2016

This week, the Global Public-Private Partnership is excited to join the Women Deliver Conference in Copenhagen, where, in addition to attending sessions, and talking about the importance of hygiene, we will present on a panel discussing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) for girls’ and women’s health […]

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New Resource Children as Handwashing Change Agents: A short review of the evidence

June 17, 2015

  “If a child find his mother preparing food without washing hands, or coming from latrine and does not wash hands, he can tell her to wash hands. This would be a very useful advice.” – Schoolteacher, Tanzania.1   Many global health behavior change programs […]

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New Resource Full list of PPPHW resources from AfricaSan

June 4, 2015

The PPPHW was very busy at AfricaSan4, held May 25-27 in Dakar, Senegal. Make sure you don’t miss any of the presentations, summaries, or blog posts from this important conference. Materials from PPPHW-hosted sessions Written summary of the Regional Handwashing Think Tank Presentations from the […]

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New Resource The Ngor Declaration: Towards dignity through sanitation and hygiene

June 3, 2015

At the AfricaSan4 conference for Sanitation and Hygiene, held in Dakar, Senegal in May 2015, the unofficial theme was dignity, so it is apt that when it came to naming AfricaSan’s Ministerial Declaration for Water and Sanitation, it was called Ngor, meaning dignity in Wolof, […]

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