WASH4Work
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A Baseline Study of Living Conditions of Garment Workers in Hlaing Thar Yar (Myanmar)
H&M and WaterAid are working together to improve conditions for garment factory workers in H&M’s supply chain.
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Accessibility and Safety Audits (2020)
The Accessibility and Safety Audit is a simple yet powerful tool to assist the people responsible for WASH programming to make these services inclusive for everyone, including people with a disability, older people, women and children.
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Better Work Initiative (2017)
Better Work mobilizes global brands, governments, factory owners and workers to improve garment factory working conditions, including access to adequate water for health and sanitation.
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BRK Ambiental Presents: Women and Sanitation (2019)
This study analyzes, from several complementary points of view, the issue of women’s lives and access to sanitation in Brazil, and how the lack of sanitation compromises the health of Brazilian women.
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Children’s Rights and Business Principles (2013)
Guidance, tools, and approaches to respecting children’s rights in and out of the workplace.
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Coca-Cola: Respecting the Human Right to Water and Sanitation
As a beverage company, Coca-Cola recognize the indispensable nature of water in advancing healthy ecosystems, communities, business, agriculture and commerce.
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Corporate Engagement on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2017)
A high-level summary of research findings and recommendations for driving progress on WASH and SDG6 through supply-chains and voluntary standards.
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Diageo’s Water of Life Program
Diageo has committed to helping a million people a year through improved water supply and sanitation in Africa through their Water of Life program.
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Frontiers of CLTS: How to Trigger for Handwashing with Soap (2014)
The purpose of this document is to outline several practical tools which can be used as a part of CLTS in order to trigger realisation among communities of the importance of handwashing with soap, as well as eliminating open defecation.
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Guidance for Companies on Respecting the Human Rights to Water & Sanitation (2015)
This Guidance aims to help business effectively align corporate water stewardship practice with the corporate responsibility to respect the human rights to water and sanitation.
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Guidance on Menstrual Health and Hygiene (2019)
This guidance was developed for UNICEF WASH, Education, Health, and Gender specialists or focal points in country offices who are working with their partners to develop programs related to menstrual health and hygiene.
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Guide to Menstrual Hygiene Materials (2019)
This document provides guidance for staff from the UNICEF Supply Division and Programme Division on the selection and procurement of appropriate materials and supplies for menstrual hygiene management, particularly during humanitarian response.
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H&M – Human Right to Water and Sanitation
H&M is committed to ensuring that water is used responsibly throughout the company’s value chain. H&M does this to minimize risks in its operations, to protect the environment and to secure the availability of water for people.
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Hygiene Matters Research Initiative (2016)
Swedish pulp and paper company SCA has partnered with WSSCC to create a common platform for raising awareness about the importance of hygiene and sanitation and challenging taboos surrounding personal hygiene.
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Implementation of WASH for Workers and Communities – Case Studies
Nestlé has worked with the WBCSD on adopting and implementing the WASH Pledge throughout their value chain in India, Cameroon, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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Improving Smallholder Farmers (SHF) Nutrition
GAIN, Unilever, and the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) saw an opportunity to improve the nutrition and health of farmers, workers and their families in supply chains, while working to increase supplier and worker satisfaction, productivity and brand loyalty.
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IRC Wash Tools
Tools and guidance for providing WASH services that last.
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LafargeHolcim Pledges Support for WASH Initiatives
LarfargeHolcim has committed to the WBCSD WASH Pledge, and is supporting the Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India initiative by using its cement and building materials expertise to construct 3 million toilets.
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Live: Country Experiences on COVID-19 and WASH (2020)
This live-blog shares WASH approaches Sanitation and Water for All partners are taking in response to the COVID-19 emergency.
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Make Way for the Future of Sanitation (2020)
This report provides a review of new enterprise models shaping the development of a transformational sanitation economy.
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Nestlé: Commitment on Water Stewardship
Nestlé has formally confirmed its public support for the human right to water and sanitation, as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Newmont Global Water Strategy
Every Newmont facility has developed a water management charter and plan using an integrated, basin-wide approach that addresses stakeholder and mine water needs and meets all applicable laws and regulations.
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On the Frontline: the State of the World’s Water 2020
This analysis examines how climate change is making it harder for people in the world’s poorest countries to rely on being able to drink clean water every day and calls for urgent action from governments and the international community to include safe water and sanitation plans for dealing with the impacts of climate change.
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Post-2015 Agenda and Related SDGs Issue Focus: Water & Sanitation (2014)
The purpose of this issue paper is to inform governments and policy makers of the responsible business community’s willingness to contribute to the formation of any water and sanitation goals as well as future implementation efforts involving the private sector.
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Private Sector and Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2015)
Analysis and recommendations on how to achieve Sustainable Development Goals 6 and 17, based on interviews with over 60 individuals representing over 40 organizations from the private sector, government, civil society, and NGOs.
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Realizing the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation (2014)
The United Nations Special Rapporteur has been working closely with several organizations interested in understanding what the human rights to water and sanitation mean for their work, and how to translate these rights into practice.
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Reducing Inequalities in Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals (2017)
Synthesis Report of the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic Initiative, which focuses on what it would take to reduce existing inequalities in WASH services worldwide.
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SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 on Water and Sanitation (2018)
This first synthesis report on SDG 6 is an in-depth review and includes data on the global baseline status of SDG 6, the current situation and trends at global and regional levels, and what more needs to be done to achieve this goal by 2030.
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Short-Changed on Climate Change: Money, Water and the People on the Frontline (2020)
This report explores how the already low levels of funding spent on climate change aren’t being targeted to help the worst affected countries deal with the effects, putting billions of lives at risk.
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Strengthening the Business Case for WASH – Breakfast Session Summary (2019)
The summary of this session held at Stockholm World Water Week 2019 highlights progress made by companies pilot-testing guidance from Strengthening the Business Case for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, and offers insight on next steps.
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Strengthening the Business Case for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene – How to Measure Value for Your Business (2018)
This guide has been developed to support evidence gathering and strengthen the business case for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), which is currently lacking.
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Supporting WASH Outcomes for Cocoa Famers in Ghana and C’ote diVoire
Nestlé is working with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to improve access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene in rural communities in Africa.
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Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management Toolbox (2020)
The SSWM Toolbox compiles thousands of “best of” instruments geared to optimize sanitation and water management intervention at a local level all curated in an easy-to-understand yet comprehensive way.
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SWA Tools Portal
This Portal aims to make the tools and resources developed by individual partners that strengthen WASH more accessible and easier to navigate.
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SWA Webinar Series on COVID-19 and WASH (2020)
This webinar series is organized by SWA and consists of dialogues on COVID-19 and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
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Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Mission: Management Information System (MIS) and Mobile App
The Indian government is aiming to achieve an Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2019, by constructing 12 million toilets in rural India. They have developed a monitoring dashboard and mobile app to track progress towards this goal. The Indian government is aiming to achieve an Open-Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2019, by constructing 12 million toilets in rural India. They have developed a monitoring dashboard and mobile app to track progress towards this goal.
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The Business Case for Action on WASH (2018)
Analysis of the corporate water disclosures submitted to investors through CDP reveals a strengthening business case for companies investing in WASH.
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The Business Case for Investing in WASH (2017)
This paper presents the case for the business value creation and economic benefits associated with positive actions on WASH as well as outlining how business can contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 6.
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The Sanitation Economy in India (2017)
This report quantifies the potential size of the Indian market for the Sanitation Economy with market estimates in 3 areas: the Toilet Economy, the Circular Sanitation Economy and the Smart Sanitation Economy.
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The Tata Water Mission
The Tata Water Mission’s objective is to create a healthy future for 7,000 villages and 6 million people across India through access to safe and adequate drinking water and improved sanitation over the next three years.
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The WASH Pledge and Self-Assessment Tool (2020)
By signing the WASH Pledge, companies commit to implementing access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene at the workplace.
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The Water and Development Alliance (WADA)
WADA is a collaboration between Coca-Cola and USAID to improve water resource management and expand access to drinking water and sanitation services for poor and marginalized people in developing countries.
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Transforming Health Systems: the Vital Role of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (2019)
This report outlines the health systems strengthening approach WaterAid has taken, and how this has supported sustainable improvements in WASH in healthcare facilities.
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UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) (2019)
The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) provides policy- and decision-makers at all levels with easily accessible and comprehensive analyses to make informed decisions for sanitation, drinking-water, and hygiene.
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Understanding Hygiene Promotion in the Context of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak (2020)
This note provides guidance on which aspects to consider when planning and implementing a hygiene promotion campaign as part of a broader risk communication and community engagement strategy.
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WASH Bottleneck Analysis Tool (WASHBAT) (2016)
WASH-BAT is an analysis and monitoring online tool developed to assess the enabling environment of WASH delivery by tracking the removal of barriers to services at national, regional, service provider, and community levels. Users register for access.
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WASH for Tea Garden Workers
WaterAid is working to improve access to safe water, accessible sanitation and hygiene services for the tea pickers who live within the tea estate compounds in Sylhet District, Bangladesh.
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WASH In Health Care Facilities: Global Baseline Report 2019
This Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) report focuses on monitoring the status of WASH in health care facilities.
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WASH Programme Contribution to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Prevention and Response (2020)
This technical document outlines the overarching strategy and tactics for implementing UNICEF’s COVID-19 WASH response.
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WASH Solutions from Tata Steel Nest-In (2018)
Tata Steel has developed two prefabricated construction offerings, a modular toilet and a drinking water kiosk, to address drinking water and sanitation challenges globally.