Leading on WASH in Healthcare Facilities: Progress Report on Faith-Inspired Action and Results
This report will: – Describe the WASH in healthcare facilities challenge, its solvability, and how solutions are being implemented by a range of actors, including faithinspired actors; – Celebrate the diversity, commitments and achievements of these faithinspired actors; – Encourage new partnerships across secular, public and faith institutions...
Monitoring Environmental Health in Maternal and Newborn Health Programs in Health Care Facilities
Many health care facilities in low-and middle-income countries have substandard water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities and lack adequate infection prevention and control items, policies, protocols, and behaviors. These inadequate conditions lead to higher rates of health care acquired infections and increased rates of morbidity and mortality. The...
Catholic Relief Services CRS) Water Security Strategy for 2030
Water is a common good that transits landscapes and terrains. It belongs to no one individual permanently; yet, its stewardship is an imperative for everyone. Through 2030, CRS continues to strive to achieve its vision by empowering this stewardship in three principal areas: 1. water- and climate-smart agriculture...
Core questions and indicators for monitoring WASH in health care facilities in the Sustainable Development Goals (WHO)
WHO and UNICEF, working with the Global Task Team for monitoring WASH in health care facilities (HCF), have developed a set of core questions and indicators for WASH in HCF, in support of monitoring WASH in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The indicators include definitions for basic...