Water, environment and sanitation

Publications

UNICEF publications on water, sanitation and hygiene

A selection of technical, policy and advocacy documents produced by UNICEF on water, sanitation, hygiene and the environment.

Includes Waterfront —UNICEF's newsletter on sectoral issues—and the Technical Guideline Series . See also the UNICEF Publications page for additional water and sanitation-related titles.

(Note that links to partner organizations on this page will open in a new window and will take you to a non-UNICEF web site.)

Latest: Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation (No.5)

Unsafe water and the lack of basic sanitation and adequate hygiene contribute to the leading killers of children under five, including diarrhoeal diseases, pneumonia and undernutrition, and have implications for whether children, especially girls, attend school. This means that achieving Millennium Development Goal 7 and its 2015 targets of reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation are of vital relevance for children and for improving nutrition, education and women's status. Progress for Children: A Report Card on Water and Sanitation will report on whether the world is on course to reach MDG 7 - and where efforts are falling short. [PDF]

Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target: the urban and rural challenge of the decade

The latest (2006) report from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme. The report provides coverage data for water and sanitation for 1990 and 2004 at national, regional and global levels, as well as an analysis of trends towards 2015. Although published in 2006, the report covers progress towards the seventh MDG up to the year 2004. This is the last year for which comprehensive data are available.

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UNICEF Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Strategy

UNICEF Executive Board approved strategies for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programming. [PDF]

Washing hands at school

Water for Life - Making it Happen

The 2005 publication from the WHO/UNICF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply analyzes essential investments and strategies to increase accessto water and sanitation between now and the Millennium Development Goal deadline year of 2015. [PDF]

Framework for Action on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools A UNICEF/IRC report of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Schools Roundtable meeting, which took place in Oxford, UK, 24-26 January 2005. With the support of Oxfam, UK, and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), UNICEF and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) gathered more than 100 people to share experiences and expertise and to examine barriers to education related to water and sanitation issues.
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Water: A Matter of Life and Health
In a new publication about UNICEF's water programme in India, authors Maggie Black and Rupert Talbot examine what has been done and needs to be done to fulfill the promise of ‘drinking water and sanitation for all’ [PDF - publication summary]

Meeting the MDG Drinking Water and Sanitation Target: a Mid-Term Assessment of Progress
The 2004 publication from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on global statistics for water and sanitation. The coverage figures - from 1990 and 2002 - show that the sanitation target of halving the number of unserved people worldwide by 2015 will not be met without a dramatic acceleration in the provision of services.
[PDF or print version] [Web version]

Childhood Lead Poisoning: Information for Advocacy and Action
This booklet is part of UNICEF's ongoing efforts to raise awareness of the linkages between environmental factors and the well-being of children. Childhood Lead Poisoning is published in partnership with UNEP, the United Nations Environment Programme.
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Facts for Life
Lifesaving knowledge about children‘s health for parents, caregivers, health workers, government officials, journalists and teachers. Facts for Life represents the best current understanding of science, policy and practice. Including chapters on hygiene and diarrhoea.
[PDF or print version]

Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000
The year 2000 report from the Joint Monitoring Programme.
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Motivating Better Hygiene Behaviour: Importance for Public Health, Mechanisms for Change
An examination of why conventional hygiene educational programmes fail, and a presentation of alternative approaches (an older document reissued due to popular demand). Motivating Better Hygiene Behaviour is produced in partnership with IRC, International Water and Sanitation Centre.
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Learning from Experience: Water and Environmental Sanitation in India
Lessons learned from India - UNICEF's longest running programme of support for water, sanitation and hygiene. Report from an evaluation covering 30 years of programming experience.
[PDF or print version]

Sanitation for All: Promoting dignity and human rights
The UNICEF sanitation brochure is a tool for generating new sanitation and hygiene policy and programme actions at country, regional and international levels.
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Water and Sanitation Technical Guidelines Series

Communication for Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Manual
This manual, with a focus on sound principles in programme communication, provides guidance on how to incorporate communication and behaviour change approaches in water and environmental sanitation programmes.
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Hygiene Promotion Manual
This manual presents a methodology for bottom-up programming for hygiene promotion: first finding out what people know about hygiene through formative research in people's knowledge and practices, and then combining this with state-of-the-art expert knowedge and appropriate communication strategies to develop effective and sustainable programming models. This manual was produced in partnership with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Ministry of Health of Burkina Faso.
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Sanitation Handbook
The manual—first in the Technical Guidelines series—provides tools to support national and local initiatives for improved sanitation programming. The Sanitation Handbook was produced in partnership with EHP, the Environmental Health Project.
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School Sanitation and Hygiene Manual
A comprehensive discussion and guidance document on both hardware and software aspects needed to bring about changes in schools, in the hygiene behaviour of students and, through these students, in the community at large. The Manual On School Sanitation and Hygiene is produced in partnership with IRC, the International Water and Sanitation Centre.
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Water Handbook
A comprehensive review and guide on procedures, methodologies and technologies for water programmes.
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Waterfront: a periodic newsletter on water, sanitation, hygiene and the environment.

Issue 16 - Fall 2003
Safe water and sanitation as a basic human right, household water treatment, rainwater harvesting ... and reports from Kyoto, Madagascar, Uzbekistan, Guinea and other countries around the world.
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Issue 15 - June 2002
School sanitation and health in Nigeria and India, targets for sustainable development, refuse management in Columbia, emergency programming, sanitation in Guinea and Thailand, and more...
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Issue 14 - April 2000
The urban sanitation issue: issues and actions from the world’s poor urban areas.
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Issue 13 - December 1999
The global agenda for children, emergencies, groundwater quality, sanitation, and more…
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Issue 12 - December 1998
The environmental sanitation issue: 19 case studies from cities around the world.
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Issue 11 - August 1998
Reports on drought, women and water and hygiene education from Zimbabwe, Haiti, Columbia, India, and more…
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Issue 10 - October 1997
Joint programmes of action with partner agencies, wells in Madagascar, hygiene promotion in Cape Verde, and more…
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Earlier Issues
Available upon request from UNICEF.

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