Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): the evolution of a global health and development sector.

ABSTRACT: Despite some progress, universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030-a remit of Sustainable Development Goal 6-remains a distant prospect in many countries. Policy-makers and implementers of the WASH sector are challenged to track a new path. This research aimed to identify core orienting themes of the sector, as legacies of past processes, which can provide insights for its future. We reviewed global policy, science and programmatic documents and carried out 19 expert interviews to track the evolution of the global WASH sector over seven decades. We situated this evolution in relation to wider trends in global health and development over the same time period.With transnational flows of concern, expertise and resources from high-income to lower-income countries, the

SUBMITTER: de Wit S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11459319 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature