Civic Champions – Capacity Building As It Should Be
Our Civic Champions program is designed to help elected local officials realize their leadership potential. Why? Because with a market-based sanitation program... Read More
Evolving Metrics for Monitoring Sanitation Market Systems / ការវិវត្តនៃនិយាមវាស់វែង សម្រាប់ត្រួតពិនិត្យប្រព័ន្ធទីផ្សារអនាម័យ
In 2011, when WaterSHED introduced the Hands-Off market-based sanitation program, the rural sanitation market was negligible. To jumpstart the market and ensure... Read More
Tackling hygiene in hospitals with HappyTap
When we began to look at ways to improve hygiene in rural communities across the Mekong, our focus was on the household... Read More
The gender equity blind spot
WASH organizations are putting a greater emphasis on women and girls in their efforts to end open defecation but do we struggle... Read More
Building the market for sanitation with planned obsolescence
Six years after starting an experimental program to build the market for sanitation in rural Cambodia, WaterSHED has begun drawing down its... Read More
Changing the message: to promote handwashing, we need to stop talking about it
Marketing hand-washing-enabling technology is neither about the technology nor actual hand washing. HappyTap CEO Geoff Revell argues that tapping into people’s emotions... Read More
Fostering Collective Action in the rural sanitation and hygiene sector in Cambodia
“Collective impact is fundamentally not about creating a whole new initiative, but rather connecting and strengthening existing efforts and filling gaps.” [Committing... Read More
How Do We Measure Women’s Empowerment?
As we launch our new Women’s Empowerment program, one of the biggest challenges we will face is measuring success. Our aim is... Read More
Reflections on Nairobi: Breaking the Barriers to Women’s Empowerment
Last week our Women’s Empowerment Program Manager, Sarah van Boekhout, and Social Behaviour and Research Specialist, Janita Bartell, headed to Nairobi for... Read More
Civic Leaders Bring Transformational Change to Cambodia’s Sanitation
Leadership training is not groundbreaking. But Civic Champions is. How WaterSHED is guiding local leaders to boost Cambodia’s sanitation towards full coverage.... Read More