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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Globally, unsafe drinking water, poor access to appropriate sanitation facilities and inadequate handwashing contribute significantly to childhood illness and death. Diarrhea alone is responsible for 11% of global child deaths. Many more children suffer weakness and malnutrition as a result of parasites or environmental enteropathy, a sub-clinical infection of the stomach that interferes with the absorption of nutrients.
Save the Children’s WASH programs aim to reduce diarrhoea and other diseases in children under the age of five, and reduce chronic malnutrition in children under the age of two. Save the Children collaborates with governments, civil society and communities to develop market-oriented approaches to improve water quality, encourage the safe disposal of excrement, and promote the adoption of improved hygiene practices.
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Every Child Can Be a Superhero
This video is produced for children and parents amidst this coronavirus pandemic. It is specific to Rwanda but the message of staying home and practicing good hygiene is the same globally. It was produced with this in mind, accurate and age-appropriate in
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Guidance on Market Based Programming for Humanitarian WASH Practitioners
The purpose of this document is to provide practical guidance in preparedness, assessment, program design, implementation and monitoring related to Market-Based Programming (MBP) in humanitarian WASH assistance, and more specifically on: How to identify l
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Save the Children's Global Humanitarian WASH Guidance 2019-2021
Our vision is a world in which every child affected by an emergency wherever she/he is – at home or displaced; in schools; and in health institutions – has the right and access to safe water supply and adequate sanitation facilities and is enabled to perf
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Global Health: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
One-third of child deaths result from diseases related to poor water, sanitation and hygiene practices. This fact sheet describes Save the Children USA's approaches to improving WASH conditions.
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Horn of Africa One Year On Report: Helping children and their families survive the gripping impact of the drought in 2017
The Horn of Africa has been grappling with the effects of consecutive failed rains across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia that led to 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance at the start of 2017. Save the Children’s response over the past year
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Formative Research and Gender Analysis
The U.S. Agency for International Development “Nurture” (USAID Nurture) project, led by Save the Children (SC) is aimed at contributing to a reduction in young child stunting. Over a three-year period, USAID Nurture will be implemented in all villages of
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Wash & Nutrition: Recent research and the Save the Children experience
This document presents important findings in the field of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) as well as Nutrition. The research is illustrated with important observations from Save the Children's WASH and nutrition projects in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Vie