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Community sanitary complexes in rural India

To improve sanitation facilities nationwide, the Government of India (GoI) launched the flagship sanitation campaign, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), in 2014. The campaign's first phase concluded in 2019, with all Indian villages, states and union territories declaring themselves "open-defecation free" (ODF). Further...

Effect of improved WASH in schools on Girls’ Educational Outcomes

The importance of WinS for education is acknowledged by even the Right to Education Act, which mandates basic WASH facilities in schools. Successive governments have invested in WinS through various programmes since early 1990s and development organizations such as UNICEF have been supporting such government effor...

Bottleneck analysis of hand hygiene programming

Hand hygiene, particularly, handwashing with soap, is recognized as a highly cost-effective public health intervention, which has the potential to reduce disease burden globally significantly. Handwashing with soap at five critical times- after defecation, after handling a child’s faeces, before feeding infants/ch...

Rapid assessment on the continuation of basic WASH services during COVID-19 in India (2021)

COVID-19 impacted countries across the globe to varying degrees. In India, the pandemic led to the government imposing a nationwide lockdown starting on 24 March 2020, during which almost all activities came to a standstill for the subsequent months. During the pandemic, it became very clear early on that COVID-19...

Environmental impact of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural):

UNICEF in India accords high priority to the provision of safe sanitation and water services to people in rural areas and has over the past many years aided through catalytic technical support to the Government of India and 15 state governments in the implementation of the various sanitation programmes and since 2...

Environmental impact of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural)

UNICEF in India accords high priority to the provision of safe sanitation and water services to people in rural areas and has over the past many years aided through catalytic technical support to the Government of India and 15 state governments in the implementation of the various sanitation programmes and since 2...

The role of trendsetters in the popularization and adoption of the Swachh Bharat Mission (2020)

The Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), launched in 2014, spread across the country at an unprecedented rate. The programme focuses on both toilet ownership through subsidies, and community-based behavioural change interventions to encourage toilet use and maintenance. The Government of India’s Department of Drinking Wa...

13 September 2022

LIXIL’s SATO brand joins UNICEF to accelerate sanitation and hygiene access for over 3.5 million people in India

LIXIL , maker of pioneering water and housing products, and UNICEF, the world’s leading children’s organization, have announced the expansion of the ‘Make a Splash!’ partnership into India to build a viable sanitation and hygiene ecosystem serving 3.5 million people. SATO, part of LIXIL and provider of affordable ...

15 October 2020

A history of UNICEF work on water, sanitation and hygiene in India

Today we are celebrating Global Handwashing Day. A day when we all re-commit ourselves to make sure every child in India has access to water to wash his or her hands with soap to prevent diseases and save lives, which is even more important this year due to the COVID 19 pandemic. UNICEF India has been working with...