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For street vendors, finding water and toilets isn’t just a nuisance, it’s cutting into earnings

The daily grind of street vendors comes with a host of obvious business challenges: sourcing and preparing goods to sell; attracting a steady stream of customers; and generating enough take-home pay to survive. It’s a hustle, and one that these roadside entrepreneurs know well. But the hustle only goes so far. Conducting their livelihoods in […]

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Revealing and strengthening the links between WASH, productivity, and well-being for informal vendors in South Africa and Kenya

(Note: A report on from the validation of findings workshop from this study can be viewed here.) Background Limited Recognition of Workplace Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) for Informal Labourers Past WASH research typically focuses on residents’ access, including yard taps or public toilets, but these studies usually overlook the vital need for WASH in […]

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Case Study: Disability inclusive WASH in Sub Saharan Africa

This case study highlights the opportunity for DFID WASH programmes and provides basic, introductory guidance on DI to DFID advisers and managers on how to build disability inclusion into programming activities.

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Reducing VAWG around water and sanitation

Creating safe and inclusive urban environments is a top priority for UK government, who have signed up to several international commitments in this area, including Sustainable Development Goal 11 to ‘make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’, with a target that directly contributes to addressing women and girls’ safety in public spaces. Violence […]

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