Water and sanitation are at the very centre of development. They are integral to health, nutrition, education, livelihoods, the role of women, and the environment. Without adequate management of water resources and access to water and sanitation, poverty reduction will not be sustainable.
Currently, 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation and 900 million people lack safe water.
Water Safety Plans for communities: Guidance for adoption of Water Safety Plans at community level
Various Picture Sets, and one case study, accompany the main text and these can be found here:
Picture Set 1
Picture Set 2
Picture Set 3
Picture Set 4
Picture Set 5
Picture Set 6
Picture Set 7
Southern Sudan case study:
Water Safety Plans - Step 1
Water Safety Plans - Step 2
Water Safety Plans - Step 3
Water Safety Plans - Step 4
Water Safety Plans - Step 5
Water Safety Plans - Step 6
Tearfund and its partners believe that a community water supply should be owned and managed by the user community which takes responsibility for the safety and reliability of the supply. How then can communities be empowered to effectively safeguard their water quality? A Water Safety Plan is a relatively new approach which helps a community to understand the risks to contamination of its water supply along the entire supply route - from catchment to consumption -, and how to manage those risks. These guidelines offer explanation and guidance on how a community may be helped to form its own Water Safety Plan.
A French version of all the above material is available here:
Water Safety Plans for communities: Guidance for adoption of Water Safety Plans at community level (French)
Picture Set 1 (French)
Picture Set 2 (French)
Picture Set 3 (French)
Picture Set 4 (French)
Picture Set 5 (French)
Picture Set 6 (French)
Picture Set 7 (French)
Water Safety Plans - Step 1 (French)
Water Safety Plans - Step 2 (French)
Water Safety Plans - Step 3 (French)
Water Safety Plans - Step 4 (French)
Water Safety Plans - Step 5 (French)
Water Safety Plans - Step 6 (French)
The Church's role in sanitation and hygiene: Guidelines and tools
The Church's role in sanitation and hygiene: Guidelines and tools is an unpublished report written to give practical guidance to churches and church-based partners on how to engage effectively with helping communities realise improvements in safe sanitation and good hygiene practices, whether for the first time or if wishing to expand the current role that they play. It gives ideas and examples from churches who are already leading successful sanitation and hygiene initiatives which will help stimulate and encourage other churches to realise their potential in the WASH sector.
Demand-led sanitation
This presentation highlights the drawbacks of supply-driven sanitation approaches and gave a rationale for a marketing style approach to sanitation. The presentation outlines Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) which focuses on igniting a change in sanitation behaviour rather than constructing toilets. To view the presentation, click here.
Published June 2010:
Adoption of Community-Led Total Sanitation: Guidance for programming of CLTS in Tearfund-supported projects
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