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Water borne diseases
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Providing clean water to the home of every child in India
A safe water supply in every household will ensure children and families survive and thrive.
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A Clean (Sampoorna Swachh) India
Towards maintaining an open defecation-free and clean environment and managing solid and liquid wastes efficiently
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Situational Analysis in Tea Gardens in Assam
The UNICEF Assam Field Office (AFO) supports 203 Tea Estates in eight districts of Assam under the Ethical Tea Partnership (ETA) programme. The lack of safe and adequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services provides significant issues to the tea tribes' communities. The report's key objective is to asses...
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Study on domestic water security from aspects of gender, social inequities, and water management
The Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM), the national flagship programme of the Government of India (building on the National Rural Drinking Water Programme – NRDWP) envisions safe and adequate drinking water for all, always, in rural India. It aims to ensure that by 2022, at least 90 per cent of rural households are provid...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Weekly surveillance of wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 gene detection for pandemic curve monitoring
This study was conducted as a weekly surveillance of wastewater for SARS-CoV-2 to gather evidence about the COVID-19 situation at the community level. The surveillance study was carried out in the Ahmedabad city of Gujarat state in India. Given that up to 67 per cent of infected people showed SARS-CoV2 presence ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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World Water Day
"I used to skip school because we did not have access to water. It used to take more than three hours in a day to go and collect water from nearby villages. Due to this I only attended a few classes in a month.” Reshmi who lives in village Jamunhai, Chitrakoot , Uttar Pradesh. Keshkali holds a water bucket at her ...
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Child Friendly version on understanding COVID-19
UNICEF partnered with Inklink Charitable Trust to work with children to develop a child friendly version on understanding Covid19, ways to prevent it from spreading, assuring children not to be stressed and scared. The development of this booklet, during this lock down period was not easy at all. The creative ment...