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Water and Sanitation

Currently, 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation and 900 million people lack safe water. As a result 2.2 million children aged less than five die from diarrhoeal diseases each year. Women and children in poorer countries spend hours each day collecting and carrying water. The weight of water carried can be more than 25 kilograms. See below for links to our policy and research documents.

For further information about Tearfund’s work on water, sanitation and hygiene see

http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/

and also the work related to environmental sustainability

http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Environmental+Sustainability/


WASH and peace- and state-building
With DFID funding, we've been working with the Overseas Development Institute to explore how WASH programmes in fragile and conflict-affected states can contribute towards local level peace- and state-building. The focus countries were DRC and South Sudan. Click here for the literature review, DRC case study, South Sudan case study, synthesis report, Tearfund policy report and a 4 page summary for DFID.
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Sanitation and Water for All - How this global partnership has become adynamic catalyst for change
This short booklet explains how the global partnership 'Sanitation and Water for All' is acting as a catalyst to overcome barriers to development and national planning in the WASH sector. 
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Dialogues d’action contre la diarrhée - Des politiques jusqu’aux résultats
Ce rapport examine les politiques et stratégies en place pour prévenir la diarrhée chez les enfants et pour empêcher que les enfants ne meurent une fois qu’ils en sont atteints au Mali, en Éthiopie et en Zambie.
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Diarrhoea Dialogues - from policies to progress (2012)
Written with PATH, this report investigates how three countries are addressing diarrhoea: in Mali and Ethiopia, where diarrhoea is the leading cause of death in children less than five years old; and Zambia, where the burden is also high.
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Se regrouper pour un meilleur résultat: L’approche plurisectorielle, vecteur d’espoir dans la lutte contre la maladie et la pauvreté
Ce rapport souligne les avantages de l’intégration, en se concentrant sur l’eau et l’assainissement, les soins de santé primaires et la nutrition.
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Join up, scale up - how integration can defeat disease and poverty (2011)
This report highlights the benefits of integration focusing on water and sanitation, primary healthcare and nutrition. This page also links to a short film of featured water & nutrition project in Zimbabwe and briefings by two of Tearfund's partners.
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Comprendre le secteur WASH (2010)
Comment effectuer une analyse de la capacité, de la redevabilité et de la réactivité (CRR) du secteur de l’eau, de l’assainissement et de l’hygiène dans votre pays.
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Understanding the WASH sector (2010)
This document is a step by step guide for civil society organisations to conduct research into the water, sanitation and hygiene sector in a particular country, through carrying out an analysis of the capability, accountability and responsiveness (CAR) of the sector.
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Making the case for sanitation and hygiene: opening doors in health (2010)
Tearfund has worked collaboratively with ODI and WSSCC to produce an ODI 'Background Note' exploring how we can improve advocacy to the health sector on sanitation and hygiene.
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Joining the dots. Why better water, sanitation and hygiene are necessary for progress on maternal, newborn and child health (2010)
This report outlines the positive outcomes gained from improvements in water, sanitation and hygiene on women’s and children’s health.  It explains why an integrated approach to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is needed and why wate...
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How to integrate climate change adaptation into national-level policy and planning in the water sector (2010)
This document is a practical guide for developing country governments to integrate resilience and adaptation into their water sectors. It is also for donor institutions wishing to support the integration of adaptation through development cooperatio...
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Liberia WASH consortium report - "Life and dignity at risk"
This is a report written by the Liberia WASH consortium of which Tearfund is a part. The report explores the challenges the government of Liberia’s faces in order to turn its commitments on WASH into reality. Click here to view the report.
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Tackling climate change: thinking outside the water box (2009)
In this paper, Tearfund outlines why water should be a priority for climate change adaptation funding, with recommendations for ensuring that adaptation is effective and sustainable.
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Why Advocate for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene? (2009)
It is vital that governments and donors are held to account for the promises they have made. For organisations that are new to advocacy issues, we would recommend reading Tearfund’s guide to advocacy on water and sanitation.
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Keeping communities clean: The church's response to improving sanitation and hygiene (2009)
Follow this link to access the report in English, French and Portuguese.
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Separate streams? Adapting water resources management to climate change (2008)
This report is based on empirical evidence from case studies undertaken in Niger and north-east Brazil, and aims to identify how climate change adaptation can be integrated within the water sector to benefit the most poor and vulnerable people. Click...
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Sanitation and Water - Why we need a global framework for action (September 2008)
Follow this link to access the report in English and French.
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The Sanitation Scandal (November 2007)
This report draws on case studies from Burkina Faso, DRC and Madagascar. It highlights barriers to delivering improved sanitation and hygiene and suggests how the international community and national governments should respond.
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Sanitation and Hygiene: knocking on new doors (December 2006)
A joint briefing paper produced by Tearfund, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and some Tearfund partners.
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Functional sustainability (August 2006)
A case study from south-west Uganda, by Richard C Carter and Ronnie Rwamwanja, August 2006
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Pipe Dreams (March 2006)
Governments' failure to tackle the global water and sanitation crisis is threatening goals to halve poverty.  This report sets out the scale of the problem, and the actions required.
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An empty glass (December 2005)
A critique of the EU Water Initiative, launched in 2002
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Eau potable, assainissement et hygiene: porquoi plaidoyer? (2005)
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Por que defender questões relativas à água, ao saneamentoe à higiene? (2005)
 
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Por qué hacer defensoría a favor del agua, del saneamiento y de la higiene? (2005)
 
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Making every drop count (2004)
A series of reports looking at more and better financing for the water and sanitation sector.
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