Necessary conditions for sustainable water and sanitation service delivery in schools: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services confers significant health and economic benefits, especially for children, but only if those services can be delivered on a consistent basis. The challenge of sustainable, school-based WASH service delivery has been widely documented, particularly in resource-constrained contexts. We conducted a systematic review of published research that identifies drivers of, or tests solutions to, this challenge within low- and middle-income countries (PROSPERO 2020 CRD42020199163). Authors in the first group employ cross-sectional research designs and interrogate previously implemented school WASH interventions. Most conclude that dysfunctional accountability and information sharing mechanisms drive school WASH service delivery failures. By cont

SUBMITTER: Pu CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299385 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature