Delve into a range of great content about toilets and their impact on work and life. Creative students in Accra.7 December 2016Students of the Junior Secondary School in Tema highlighted through art, the importance of adequate toilet facilities in homes as they observe World Toilet Day. The event was organized by UNIC Accra, in partnership with Abibimman Foundation, a local NGO. Photo credit: UNICS Accra...Read more...Toilets are economic engines.24 November 2016“Toilets are not handouts, they are economic engines. They are not luxuries, but delivery tools for better health. And they are not charity, but enablers of education.” Read UN Deputy Secretary General Mr Jan Eliasson message in Huffington Post. Photo credit: UNICEF...Read more...Webinar on wellbeing at work.19 November 2016“Fostering WASH & Wellbeing at Work: Exploring the impact of sanitation and hygiene in the workplace ” The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing is hosting a webinar on November 21 at 9 am EST to celebrate World Toilet Day and shine a spotlight on the importance of sanitation and hygiene in the workplace for employee health...Read more...Official video message.19 November 2016A clean office is not something to take for granted, says the UN-Water Chair and Director General of the International Labour Organization, Guy Ryder, in this video message. We often overlook the connection between toilets and livelihoods. Toilets are life-savers and they increase productivity by keeping the workplace clean and safe, allowing people to get on...Read more...A toast to toilets.19 November 2016Toilets save lives, increase productivity, create jobs and grow economies. Toilets work. To celebrate toilets and the many different roles they play in improving the lives of people around the world, the Permanent Mission of Singapore and UN-Water are hosting the official World Toilet Day event for 2016 on the theme of toilets and jobs. The...Read more...The State of the World’s Toilets.19 November 2016Human beings are now largely an urban species: for the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in towns, cities and megacities. Worldwide, it is estimated that almost one-fifth of all urbanites – over 700 million people – live without a decent toilet. To put that into context, the queue for...Read more...CEO call to action.18 November 2016Familiar with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) WASH Pledge? It´s a business-led initiative that secures access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all employees at the workplace. The WASH Pledge was launched in September 2013 as a business friendly initiative allowing companies to ensure that they provide best practice on...Read more...A message from Jan Eliasson.18 November 2016Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Jan Eliasson sends a message on World Toilet Day....Read more...India’s sanitation champions.18 November 2016An IAS officer in Rajasthan refused to drink water from a village till they built toilets in every homes. A sarpanch from Kathar refused to sit on her chair till her village became free from open defecation. A kalbelia took a vow to cut off his moustache if people from his tribe didn’t build toilets....Read more...WASH4Work.18 November 2016This new global initiative is all about mobilizing businesses to take action to address water, sanitation and hygiene – or ‘WASH’ – challenges in the workplace, in communities where workers live, and across supply chains. Access resources that that support the business case for WASH investments and assess your company’s WASH impact areas. Ensure all...Read more...Educating young people in Trinidad.18 November 2016Trinidad and Tobago has achieved almost universal coverage of potable water. Despite this, the wastewater and water services face institutional, operational, maintenance and financial challenges – with only 30% of the population connected to a wastewater collection system. Read this blog to find out about how the government is improving its systems, and how it...Read more...Time for a radical shift.18 November 2016Urban sanitation has a fundamental role to play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Many cities struggle to deal with the most basic municipal task of managing human excreta. Some are effectively “drowning” in human waste. Urban population growth continuously outpaces gains in improved sanitation access and, globally, nearly one billion people live in urban...Read more...Dawn of Sanitation Revolution in India.18 November 2016The sanitation campaign in India is helping Rajasthan become a top performing state in ending open defecation. The Chief Minister of Rajasthan declared sanitation as one of the state’s top development priorities, with a target of eliminating open defecation by 2018. Health is blooming, one home at a time. One village at a time. And...Read more...Reducing gender inequities.17 November 2016In least-developed countries, only around half of schools have access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Because of this, girls miss out on up to one week of school per month. For girls’ privacy, dignity and safety, separate toilets and washrooms, with lockable doors, are essential to keeping girls in education, and in turn,...Read more...Stepping up the sanitation effort.17 November 2016Sanitation was one of the most off-track Millennium Development Goals globally. The world missed the target by almost 700 million people. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), launched in 2015, include a target to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation by 2030, paying special attention to the...Read more...The Sanitation-Education Connection.17 November 2016Sanitation is a critical, yet often overlooked fundamental human right. This documentary, first in a series, broadly describes the worth of the sanitation-education connection in one area of Kenya, by defining its challenges and presenting solutions. Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Passion for toilets.16 November 2016Lina Kumari, from Bihar state, India, is a campaigner for better sanitation, and her husband, Nandan, works as a sanitation entrepreneur in a programme set up by PSI and Unliever’s Domestos Toilet Academy, with support from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Nandan’s job is to encourage people to buy toilets, which is vital work...Read more...A barrier for women.16 November 2016One third of the world’s population still live without access to proper sanitation. What does this mean for women in the workplace? This year’s World Toilet Day theme, Toilets and Jobs, is an opportunity to draw attention to WASH and women in the workplace. Many women in the South work in the informal economy with...Read more...What is antimicrobial-resistance?16 November 2016Antimicrobial resistance is arguably the most serious public health threat of our time. Previously we have been able to combat resistance by developing new drugs. But now we are facing a dry pipeline of new antibiotics – that means infections that are treatable will once again kill. Preventing infection through improved sanitation and hygiene is...Read more...It’s everyone’s business.16 November 2016World Toilet Day is everyone’s business: Nestlé’s WASH Pledge success story explains it all Nestlé factories, like all factories, depend on the people who make them run. Healthy, motivated people fill the workplace with energy and productivity – and that is essential for business. Nestlé helped launch the WASH at the Workplace Pledge, led by...Read more...Access denied.15 November 2016In an interview for World Toilet Day, Léo Heller, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, gives his views on the inequalities of access between women and men. 1. How does gender inequality in access to water and sanitation play out in daily life? Inequalities between men and...Read more...5 lessons on fecal sludge.15 November 2016Across the world’s urban areas, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to providing sanitation. In many cities, citizens rely on ‘non-networked sanitation services’, usually small businesses – such as sludge-sucking machine operators – that empty latrines and then pass the waste on to the other players in the ‘sanitation chain’ that remove and dispose of effluent. ...Read more...Reducing cost and complexity.14 November 2016Sunila, from Bihar state, India, was told about the dangerous health impacts of poor sanitation on her children, but it’s not easy for poor families to afford a toilet, and the building process can be slow and complicated. A programme run by Unilever’s Domestos Toilet Academy, PSI and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, connects...Read more...Helping Bihar families own a toilet.13 November 2016India is a country of 1.3 billion and yet only about half the people have access to a toilet, and nearly 600 million defecate in the open. Unilever’s Domestos Toilet Academy is working on the ground in Bihar state, with PSI and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help families own a toilet. By...Read more...WASH and neglected tropical diseases.13 November 2016Water, sanitation and hygiene are critical in the prevention and management of all of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) scheduled for intensified control, elimination or eradication by 2020. Sanitation plays a key role in preventing exposure to diseases such as soil-transmitted helminth infections, schistosomiasis, or trachoma. Learn more, check out these resources: Infographics and WASH...Read more...The sanitation chain.13 November 2016The new Sustainable Development Goal indicators 6.2.1 call for sanitation call for safely managed sanitation systems that protects health at all steps of the sanitation chain. Sanitation Safety Planning (SPP) is a risk based approach to safely managing sanitation systems of all types. Watch an 8min MOOC video on SSP. Download SSP manuals in 5 languages....Read more...Sanitation and health.12 November 20162.4 billion people still do not have a decent toilet at home. Even more, especially children, get sick by coming into contact with human excreta within their communities through open defecation, flooded latrines and untreated wastewater. Each year this millions of preventable deaths, morbidity and disability from diarrhoea and neglected tropical diseases. Learn more, check...Read more...Building sanitation skills.10 November 2016To ensure communities have access to the materials and skills necessary to build good quality toilets, the Aga Khan Development Network as part of its five year Comprehensive Sanitation Initiative in India is strengthening the sanitation supply chain in rural areas. One way of doing this is by training masons on appropriate construction techniques. Besides...Read more...Going village-to-village.10 November 2016Kush Kumar’s job is to provide sanitation solutions to people who don’t have toilets. Kush, from Bihar state, India, works for a programme set up by PSI and Unliever’s Domestos Toilet Academy, with support from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to help families own a toilet. Kush explains how it works. “If...Read more...World of Chiottes-Game of trônes.10 November 2016To mark World Toilet Day an unusual audiovisual and educational exhibition, created by students from the vocational school Aimee Stitelmann in Geneva, is displayed at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Winners of the 2015-2016 Eduki Foundation’s contest on the sustainable development goals, the students chose to work on a piece to push us to...Read more...Dry toilets in Lima’s slums.9 November 2016Millions of people in Lima’s slum lack access to toilets in their homes. Neither do they have access to water. Learn how installation of portable toilets improve the hygiene conditions. Video in Spanish. Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Making the system work.9 November 20162.4 billion people still lacks adequate sanitation. Developing access to sanitation services poses technical, institutional, financial and also social and cultural challenges. Major obstacles relate to governance deficiencies, especially the lack of adequate institutional framework. Other hindrances include the weak priority given to sanitation and the insufficiency of substantial investment in the sector. Learn more about sanitation governance...Read more...A tale of two cities.3 November 2016Compare and contrast Balikpapan in Indonesia and Maputo in Mozambique as both cities develop the governance frameworks and the services on the ground to deliver sanitation to poor communities. Learn more here. Photo credit:@DragonoHalim via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...Emptying latrines in Lusaka.3 November 2016On the rocky ground of the Zambian capital, shallow latrine pits get full quickly and need emptying regularly. Now, there is a professional service, at affordable rates, to safely remove and dispose of waste from poor communities in Lusaka. This film from Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor shows how sanitation can create jobs....Read more...Sanitation without sewerage.3 November 2016Given the urban population explosion, universal sewerage networks are not feasible in the near future. The World Bank has developed Faecal Sludge Management guidelines and tools to improve the many and varied ways to empty, convey and treat human waste in towns and cities. Learn more here. Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation via Foter.com / CC BY-SA...Read more...Fostering water and sanitation markets.1 November 2016In Latin America, social enterprises are eager to do more to respond to the huge demand for water and sanitation services from low-income communities. This paper discusses how the public sector can support the private sector to bridge the enormous gaps in coverage across the region. Download the IDB paper in English and Español. Photo credit:...Read more...Dry toilets in Mexico.1 November 2016Indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico, are trialling a way to use toilets to boost food production and do water and waste management in situ. ‘Dry’ toilets separate urine and faeces to be stored and then used as natural fertilizer on household crops. Read more here. Photo credit: lonqueta via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Three steps to improve India’s sanitation.1 November 2016As part of its technical assistance of the India Government’s Clean India Mission, the World Bank has developed a three-step pathway to scale and sustainability – crucial to eradicating open defecation by 2019. Learn more here. Photo credit: Nick Kenrick. via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...Would you drink this water?1 November 2016OHorizons, a nonprofit organization that facilitates water projects around the world, went onto the streets of New York City with a toilet on a pushcart to spread the message that hundreds of millions of people use a water source contaminated with faeces. See how people reacted! ...Read more...The Water Drop award.1 November 2016El Premio Gota de Agua – The Water Drop Award – is about recognizing those organisations that raise awareness of sanitation’s critical role in health, education, equality and conservation of natural resources. The prize will be awarded at a ceremony in Madrid on World Toilet Day by the Spanish Association of Portable Ecological Toilets. Learn more...Read more...Improving services in slum areas.1 November 2016In less developed countries, a large part of the urban population lives in slums that lack clean water, electricity, sanitation and other basic services. Cambodia is improving infrastructure and creating employment in the poorest parts of towns and cities. Learn more here. Photo credit: Jonas Hansel via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...‘Pédag eau’.27 October 2016This virtual library gives communities, organisations, teachers and faciltators the best tools to help them promote education about access to water and sanitation in the developing world. The library is searchable in English, French and Spanish, and resources are available in several languages. Check it out! Photo credit:ONE – Bruxelles...Read more...Building the pathway to a ‘Clean India’.27 October 2016As India seeks to eradicate open defecation and give everyone access to a toilet, this global conference of experts will convene in New Delhi on World Toilet Day to assess progress and identify how technological innovation can help. Download the final programme. Photo credit: Captivating World...Read more...‘Happy Toilet, Healthy City’.27 October 2016Dedicated to addressing the challenges countries face in developing and enhancing sustainable sanitation infrastructure, the World Toilet Summit and Expo in Malaysia, held in October 2016, brings together public and private sector experts. Learn more here. Photo credit: macloo...Read more...Income-enabling.24 October 2016Microloans for sanitation and water, while gaining momentum as a powerful tool to ensure universal access, continue to face resistance from financial actors due to the perception that they are consumptive rather than income generating. Early research from Water.org highlights the financial gains that people are able to derive to some extent from having sanitation...Read more...Keeping cities working.23 October 2016By 2030, more than half the Asian population will be urban, and approximately 25% of these people will be poor. Nepal’s construction and maintenance of drainage systems and latrines is trying to create jobs and improve low-income urban settlements Read more here. Photo credit: Jeff_Werner via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...The perfect match.18 October 2016Read how India’s Team Swachh are using cricket to help end open defecation in the country by 2019. Learn more here. Photo credit: Thomas Leuthard via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Toilets, health and development.13 October 2016A new infographic highlighting the connections between the newly agreed upon sanitation target (SDG 6.2) and other aspects of theSustainable Development Goals. Access the infographic here. By Unilever, Domestos, Unicef and UN-Water....Read more...Are you (really) being served?13 October 2016Insufficient data on water and sanitation access could become a potential health risk. Can we do better? Read more here. Photo credit:World Bank Photo Collection...Read more...The toilet business.13 October 2016Broadcasting now at cinema’s and TV channels across the UK is the WaterAid wry look at the horrors of building your own office toilet. 1 out of every 3 people live without proper toilet facilities, how would you cope with the repercussions? ...Read more...Business for better sanitation.12 October 2016The private sector, which creates 9 out of 10 jobs in developing countries, is in a unique position to impact billions of people every day by improving toilets in the workplace. Learn more about Wash4Work. Photo credit:Wash4Work...Read more...Sanitation in disaster recovery.12 October 2016Typhoon Haiyan killed 8,000 people across the Philippines and affected 16 million others. This video shows the population gradually restoring some of what was lost, including rebuilding sanitation facilities. Photo credit: CAFOD Photo Library via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND...Read more...Fighting for equality.12 October 2016Gender inequality, still prevalent in many societies, translates into unequal opportunities, poverty, and grave human rights violations. A new report highlights the areas we need to tackle to ensure equality of access to water and sanitation. Photo credit: M1key.me via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...The eighth wonder of the world.12 October 2016Before your next holiday, grab a copy of the new Lonely Planet guidebook – ‘Toilets: A Spotter’s Guide’ – all about the world’s weirdest and most spectacular loos. Photo credit: Doug Tanner via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND...Read more...Global Citizen Festival.12 October 2016At this recent gathering of world leaders and global activists, Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, committed to ending open defecation by 2025 and 2030 respectively. Read more here. Photo credit: Global Citizen GCF–48 ...Read more...Got the runs?12 October 2016Then do the Global Urgent Run – or host your own run – in New York on November 19th to call for urgent action to end the sanitation crisis. Photo credit: Martineric via Foter.com / CC BY-SA...Read more...Women and girls can’t wait.12 October 2016One in three women worldwide risk shame, disease, harassment and even attack because they have nowhere safe to go to the toilet. Download and read here. Photo credit: United Nations Photo...Read more...Off-the-shelf tools.11 October 2016For over a decade, IRC has been working on the challenges of providing WASH services that last. Check out the latest tools and guidance for those on the front line, developed with partners in 20 countries around the world. Photo credit: IRC...Read more...Wanted: sanitation workers.11 October 2016To create much-needed jobs, governments in some developing countries have adopted ‘employment intensive’ approaches in various public works programmes, instead of ‘machine intensive’ approaches. Read more here. Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...The other end of the pipe.11 October 2016A new book calls for a radical rethink of the inefficient way we deal with our excreta and wastewater – and illustrates how it can be done. Download and read here. Photo credit: Asian Development Bank via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND...Read more...Stopping open defecation.10 October 2016One of India’s greatest development challenges is the 60% of rural people who still defecate in the open. Read more here. Photo credit: Asian Development Bank via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND...Read more...Open to all.10 October 2016New York City Council has ruled that “men” and “women” signs on single-stall toilets be replaced with ones indicating they are unisex and open to anyone. Read more here. Photo credit: P. Marioné via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND...Read more...The value of waste.10 October 2016Urban planners are increasingly asking not just how much it will cost to clean up human waste, but also how much that waste might be worth. Read more here. Photo credit: CIMMYT via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...The glittering history of sewerage.10 October 2016From the prehistoric systems of Greece and the Middle East, to the modern sewers of Paris and London. Learn more here. Photo credit: gfpeck via Foter.com / CC BY-NC...Read more...India’s global citizens.9 October 2016Millions of citizens are getting behind the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, as India takes on a leadership role in ending extreme poverty. Learn more. Photo credit: michaelz1 via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...The toilet designed by Gaudí.9 October 2016The Palau Güell in Barcelona is one of the early works of Antoni Gaudí and one of the most magnificent buildings of the art nouveau period, containing within it an extraordinary piece of toilet art from 1888....Read more...Turning poo into gold.9 October 2016Find out how mobile technology in Senegal has reduced the cost of emptying pit latrines by nearly half and given customers the opportunity to sell their waste to be turned into energy. Read more here. Photo credit: Johan Larsson via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Changing perceptions.9 October 2016The Clean Team in Ghana want to remove the social stigma associated with jobs in the waste removal sector, showing that working with sanitation is a honourable occupation and a vital service to the community. Read more here. Photo credit: DIVatUSAID ...Read more...Smile!9 October 2016Tsiky, ‘smile’ in Malagsy, is the toilet in Madagascar that wraps human waste in a biodegradable liner and turns it into biogas. Designer Virginia Gardiner tells the whole story here. Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...‘In danger every day’.8 October 2016Waste workers in the US are ten times more likely to be killed on the job than the average worker and two and a half times more likely to be injured than miners. A new report details the hazards facing sanitation workers in New York City. Photo credit: Backbone Campaign via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA...Read more...Gates’ toilet of the future.8 October 2016From a waterless toilet using nanofibers, to a solar-powered machine that produces fertilizer, the winners of the Gates Foundation competition are truly ingenious. Read more here. Photo credit: Sustainable sanitation via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Sanitation fit for the Gods.8 October 2016A new campaign in India says an unclean environment drives away Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity – appealing to religion to help achieve the Clean India Mission by 2019. Watch the add. Photo credit: { pranav } via Foter.com / CC BY...Read more...Be creative.7 October 2016What does having access to a safe toilet mean to you? Join the World Toilet Day campaign and use art to express how sanitation, or the lack of it, can impact on livelihoods. Do you need inspiration? Check out the Factsheet, and remember to share you art piece online, using #WorldToiletDay. Photo credit: cylonfingers via Foter.com /...Read more...Share your toilet.7 October 2016In recognition of 1 in 3 people not having access to basic sanitation, this World Toilet Day people around the globe open their toilets to the public. Show that you care, join in and share your toilet! Download the ”Clean, show & share your toilet” posters, hand out the Factsheet and publish your engagement Photo credit: Johan Hallström...Read more...Building the pathway to a ‘Clean India’.1 October 2016As India seeks to eradicate open defecation and give everyone access to a toilet through the Clean India Mission, this global conference of experts will convene in New Delhi on World Toilet Day to assess progress and identify how technological innovation can help. Read more here. Photo credit: Warl0rdPT via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND...Read more...
