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Behavioral Insights for the Water Sector : Improving Outcomes by Changing Mindsets (الإنجليزية)

Challenges in infrastructure sectors go beyond financing and can benefit from a rethink. Behavioral economics has encouraged a broader understanding of human decision making that can be applied to bottlenecks...

Applying a Behavioral Lens to the Sanitation Sector (الإنجليزية)

Despite considerable efforts to reach the sustainable development goal (SDG) target 6.2, about 2.3 million people globally still lack basic sanitation services and only 39 percent of the global population...

Applying a Behavioral Lens to the Water Sector (الإنجليزية)

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) for water are a greater challenge than the millennium development goals (MDGs) before them. In addition to the addressing the funding gap, existing investments...

Cholera Risk in Lusaka : A Geospatial Analysis to Inform Improved Water and Sanitation Provision (الإنجليزية)

Urbanization combined with climate change are exacerbating water scarcity for an increasing number of the world’s emerging cities. Water and sanitation infrastructure, which in the first place was largely...

The Importance of Maintenance : Geospatial Analysis of Cholera Risk and Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Harare, Zimbabwe (الإنجليزية)

Understanding the specific factors associated with cholera outbreaks is an integral part of designing better approaches to mitigate their impact. This paper uses georeferenced case data from the cholera...

Estimating spatially disaggregated probability of severe COVID-19 and the impact of handwashing interventions : The case of Zimbabwe (الإنجليزية)

The severity of COVID-19 disease varies substantially between individuals, with some infections being asymptomatic while others are fatal. Several risk factors have been identified that affect the progression...

Behavioral Insights in Infrastructure Sectors : A Survey (الإنجليزية)

In the past two decades, insights from behavioral sciences, particularly behavioral economics, have been widely applied in the design of social programs such as pensions, social security, and taxation...

Embedding Evidence in the Water Sector Summary Report (الإنجليزية)

Chapter one posits that many of the challenges that the infrastructure sectors face could benefit from the use of a behavioral lens. It outlines a theoretical framework to view infrastructure challenges...

An Assessment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Access in Bangladesh's Community Health Clinics (الإنجليزية)

Adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in health care facilities plays a critical role in ensuring improved health care utilization and reducing disease burden due to reinfection. WASH in health...

Why Do So Many Water Points Fail in Tanzania ? An Empirical Analysis of Contributing Factors (الإنجليزية)

According to the 2015 Tanzania Water Point Mapping data, about 29 percent of all water points are non-functional, out of which 20 percent failed within the first year. This paper analyzes the various factors...

Understanding the Geographical Distribution of Stunting in Tanzania : A Geospatial Analysis of the 2015-16 Demographic and Health Survey (الإنجليزية)

Tanzania is home to the third highest population of stunted children in Sub-Saharan Africa, with about 2.7 million children under the age of five failing to reach their full potential of growth attainment...

Reaching for the SDGs : the untapped potential of Tanzania’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector (الإنجليزية)

Promising progress : a diagnostic of water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and poverty in Bangladesh (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (الإنجليزية)

This summary report presents the findings of the Bangladesh WASH Poverty Diagnostic (BWPD) study led by the World Bank's Water and Poverty Global Practices. Though very few Bangladeshis now fetch water...

Urban water and sanitation in Tanzania : remaining challenges to providing safe, reliable, and affordable services for all (الإنجليزية)

This brief draws from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) report (World Bank, forthcoming), an initiative of the World Bank Water Global Practice (GP), which brings together analytics from across...

WASH for human development : can scaling up Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions help children grow in Tanzania? (الإنجليزية)

This brief highlights recent analyses from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) on trends in undernutrition over the years and among income groups. The analysis also identifies key drivers of high...

Reaching for the SDGs : the untapped potential of Tanzania’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector - executive summary (الإنجليزية)