WASH Failures

We’ve spent the past few years leading a WASH initiative where we’re encouraging colleagues and organisations within our sector to ‘speak-up’ when things go wrong. This has included hosting game shows at conferences, conducting participatory research with frontline WASH staff, writing editorials and developing and promoting The Nakuru Accord: failing better in the WASH sector. This section of the website collates all of that cool stuff – in particular, check out the WASH Game Shows page where you can download materials to run them at your own events!

For an overview of what we’ve learned, check out this peer-reviewed journal article published in BMJ Global Health: The persistence of failure in water, sanitation and hygiene programming: a qualitative study

For more practical guidance, see the issue of Sanitation Learning Hub’s Frontiers of Sanitation: Learning From and Preventing Failure in WASH. You can also watch a recording (~12 mins, you will need to download the pdf) explaining the key messages of the Frontiers.

If you’d like to know more: