Representatives from Argentina, Bangladesh, Chile, Egypt, and Vietnam recently traveled to the Netherlands to learn about flood risk reduction, drought mitigation, restoration of ecosystems, and…
Located in central Bangladesh, the capital city of Dhaka attracts the majority of the area’s rural migrants and has grown to a population of 18 million. It is expected to become the third most…
An approach known as ‘Baby WASH’ aims to address childhood stunting and hygiene risks by encouraging food hygiene, clean play spaces, control of animal feces, and child handwashing.
Co-authored with Amit Patel, Assistant Professor. University of Massachusetts Boston’s McCormack Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies
Co-authors: William Young, Lead Water Resources Management Specialist, the World Bank Thomas Hopson Ankit Avasthi Download the Report in the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository The…
This blogpost is part of a series of thematic blogs for the World Bank's Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic. Woman carries water containers near polluted stream…
This blog is co-authored with Lawrence Haddad, Executive Director, The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)Other co-authors: Beatrice Montesi, GAIN Martin P. Gambrill, The World Bank …
Rainwater harvesting for drip irrigation, Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Photo credit: Wisions.net Everybody depends on it; there is no substitute for it if we run out; in some places, it’s more…
Amy Pickering laughs when she thinks of all the things that went wrong with the impact evaluation she recently completed of a water chlorination project in the slums of Bangladesh’s capital city…
This post is co-authored with Tim Wainwright, Chief Executive, WaterAid and Neil Jeffery, Chief Executive Officer, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor and was originally published on the…