Increasing Access to Basic Sanitation Services for Improved Health
Today, 2.5 billion people in developing countries do not have access to basic sanitation services. This has a profound effect on their health, economic and social well-being. A number of innovative and successful approaches have increased access to sanitation on a small scale. However, governments and the global community have not been able to scale-up and sustain these efforts.
With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Water and Sanitation Program, the Global Scaling Up Sanitation Project is learning how to combine the promising approaches of Community-Led Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing to generate sanitation demand and strengthen the supply of sanitation products and services at scale, leading to improved health for people in rural areas. It is a large-scale effort to meet the basic sanitation needs of the rural poor who do not currently have access to safe and hygienic sanitation. The Global Scaling Up Sanitation Project is currently being tested in Tanzania, India and Indonesia.
Core Components
Key components of the program include supporting national and local government efforts to increase access to basic sanitation; building on promising approaches such as:
This learning process will enable evidence-based decision-making by policy-makers and support implementation of large-scale programs.
