WaterSHED
Vacancy: Survey Enumerator
In partnership with WaterSHED-Cambodia, researchers from Duke University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine will lead a research study to measure consumer preferences and to assess the impact of providing water quality information on...read more
Vacancy: Handwashing Enterprise Development Lead (Vietnamese National)
The Handwashing Enterprise Development Lead (herein after, ‘the Consultant’) will be responsible for the creation of an actionable business plan for the full-scale commercial introduction of the product in Vietnam. WaterSHED and its partners GIFT and WSP have conducted preliminary research...read more
WaterSHED Projects Spotlighted in Berlin TEDxChange Talk
On 05 April 2012, WaterSHED’s innovative sanitation marketing and handwashing programs were highlighted at an internationally broadcast TEDxChange event in Berlin, Germany. Award-winning IDEO product designer Jeff Chapin presented his experience...read more
WaterSHED hosts Global Sanitation Fund visit to Cambodia
On 02 February 2012, WaterSHED-Cambodia hosted representatives from the Swiss-based Global Sanitation Fund (GSF), the Cambodian Ministry of Rural Development and Plan International, for a field visit to one of WaterSHED’s sanitation project...read more
Hands-Off Marketing: Helping to fill the sanitation gap
In Cambodia, a country where 75 percent of rural villagers do not have toilets, Skuh Commune in Kampong Speu Province is proving that achieving Open Defecation Free status is not just development talk, but a real target that is being met...read more
Sanitation Marketing expands to Pailin Province, Cambodia
On 28 February 2012, WaterSHED-Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Governor of Pailin Province, Cambodia to begin cooperation in the implementation of WaterSHED’s WASH Marketing project. The agreement marks the launch...read more
A First for Sanitation Scale-up – Concern Worldwide and WaterSHED join forces in Cambodia
Concern Worldwide and WaterSHED-Cambodia launched a partnership this week in Pursat Province to address the country’s lack of rural sanitation. The joint effort – the first of its kind – combines the strengths of two different approaches and is expected to rapidly...read more
WaterSHED Presents at Peace Corps-Cambodia In-Service Training
On 24 February 2012, WaterSHED-Cambodia co-presented background and results from the highly successful WaterSHED–Peace Corps sanitation marketing collaboration in Siem Reap Province. The presentation was part of...read more
WaterSHED Launches sanitation collaboration with the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation
On 24 February 2012, WaterSHED-Cambodia joined representatives from the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation and local government authorities in Battambang Province’s Samlout District to launch a joint program that will replicate WaterSHED’s innovative...read more
Black Soldier Fly research seeks new value in latrine sludge
Sanitation Ventures Researcher Ian Banks (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) is based in WaterSHED’s Cambodia lab where he is investigating how the larvae of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) consume pit latrine waste, and the…...read more
Expanding sanitation as a business
In a recent blog post, Water For People’s John Sauer explores innovations to expand sanitation enterprises, specifically Water for People’s experience with a latrine pit waste emptying business model in Uganda. “This is not something government and nonprofit organisations are traditionally good at because they measure success by the number of beneficiaries they reach and [...]...read more
The world needs more toilets
Jenna Davis highlighted WaterSHED’s sanitation marketing research in her recent article for CNN...read more
Happy World Toilet Day!
Well, maybe Happy isn’t the most appropriate exclamation for World Toilet Day. Why? because 2.6 billion people worldwide still don’t have access to the basic human right of improved sanitation. That’s nearly 40 percent of the world’s population without safe, clean and dignified defecation options. So why the celebration? Think of it as a work [...]...read more
Video – Consumer preferences and uptake of household water treatment products in Cambodia
Multiple point-of-use (POU) water treatment methods are now available commercially in Cambodia. This study was a systematic qualitative investigation into Cambodian perceptions of water quality and...read more
WaterSHED contributes to sanitation marketing training at Global Forum on Sanitation
On 14 October 2011 WaterSHED continued support for a new sanitation marketing training at WSSCC’s Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene in Mumbai, India. “This training session aim[ed] to equip practitioners and programme managers with an understanding of the sanitation marketing approach, and an overview of the process...read more
