parallel subsector of sanitation progress is falling far short of the mark. In reality, most basic observations indicate that … water supply coverage is not as good as the figures show while national sanitation continues to be poor even after almost … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …

in households) with access to different types of water and sanitation facilities, and from socio-economic and child … belonging to different treatment groups, defined by water types and sanitation facilities, with children in a control group. We …

use the newly available data set DLHS-3 to quantify the impact of access to improved sanitation on diarrheal morbidity for … children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM), we find that access to improved sanitation … improved sanitation. We neither find statistically signicant treatment effects for children in low or middle socioeconomic …

the already increasing demand for water, sanitation and hygiene related facilities and services, especially from low … focus on what strategies will be necessary to achieve universal access to safe water and basic sanitation by 2030. To … to achieving sustained, universal access to safe water and sanitation in the context of Rwanda:1. The scale of the need …

combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …, implemented by chance around the onset of a large sanitation policy comprising partial subsidies – Swacch Bharat or ‘Clean India …, we provide rigorous evidence of the impacts of labelled microcredit on household sanitation investment and borrowing …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … direct benefit a household receives when moving from open to fixed-point defecation or from unimproved sanitation to improved … sanitation, and an external benefit (externality) produced by the neighborhood's access to sanitation infrastructure. The paper …

behavior. We find that health promotion generally worked through both convincing households to invest in in-home sanitation … sanitation construction may be needed to reduce open defecation enough to generate meaningful improvements in child health …

services and inequitable access in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector. We show that the WASH sector has ample …