An international sanitation financing mechanism established in 2008 by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, a United Nations-established network founded in 1990 and headquartered at the World Health Organization in Geneva. The Global Sanitation Fund pools contributions from donor governments and channels them to nationally led sanitation and hygiene programs, such as the Uganda Sanitation Fund, in low-income countries across Africa and Asia, using community-led approaches intended to produce large-scale, sustained behavior change in sanitation and hygiene practice rather than simply subsidizing latrine construction. By the early 2010s the fund had helped more than a million people gain access to improved sanitation across the thirteen countries it supported, and it continued operating under that name until the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council itself was wound up at the end of 2020 and reconstituted as the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund.
Facts
Launch YearSourced to the subject's own account Program StatusSourced to the subject's own account Sponsoring BodySourced to the subject's own accountWater Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) 1 Target PopulationSourced to the subject's own accountRural and hard-to-reach communities in developing countries, reached through community-led total sanitation and hygiene behaviour change work 1 Health GoalSourced to the subject's own accountHelp large numbers of people in developing countries improve their sanitation and adopt good hygiene practices 1 Geographic ScopeSourced to the subject's own accountDeveloping countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, including Benin, Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda 1 Measured ResultsSourced to the subject's own accountBy closure: 18.1 million people gained access to improved sanitation facilities, 24.4 million people were living in open defecation free environments, and 23.8 million people gained access to basic handwashing facilities 1 Classification
Program KindSourced to the subject's own accountSanitation or Water Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Africa, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: South Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Sub-Saharan Africa, found in there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Global Sanitation Fund
WikipediaOverview, founding
first established in 2007, in response to the United Nations Human Development Report for 2006
- Overview, management
Overview, stated aim
aims to help large numbers of people in developing countries improve their sanitation and adopt good hygiene practices
Overview, geographic focus
Worldwide, with particular focus on developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
- Overview, target communities
Overview, results at closure
18.1 million people with access to improved sanitation facilities; 24.4 million people living in open defecation free environments; and 23.8 million people with access to basic handwashing facilities
Overview, current status
now closed
Program classification, entity description sentence
An international sanitation financing mechanism established in 2008 by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, a United Nations-established network founded in 1990 and headquartered at the World Health Organization in Geneva.
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