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Training on environment, climate change and health
Water, sanitation and hygiene
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Credits
Monitoring
Training
- WASH accounts training package
- WASH accounts video tutorials
- Demonstration of water quality test used in household surveys
- PAHO: Water, sanitation and hygiene in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Estimation methodology for SDG Indicators 6.1, 6.2, 6.3.1
Resources
- WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) website
- UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) data portal
- JMP households’ country files
- JMP schools’ country files
- JMP WASH in schools methodology (draft November 2021)
- Country files for SDG 6.3.1: "Proportion of wastewater safely treated"
- WASH accounts and TrackFin
- Core questions and indicators for monitoring WASH in Schools in the Sustainable Development Goals. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- GLAAS website
- Climate-resilient WASH monitoring
- State of the world’s sanitation. Available in English, French and Spanish
- State of the world's drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all. Executive Summary in English and French
- State of the world's hand hygiene: A global call to action to make hand hygiene a priority in policy and practice
- Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: 2019 update
- Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in schools 2015-2023: special focus on menstrual health
- Progress on household drinking water, sanitation and hygiene 2000-2022: special focus on gender
- UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water GLAAS 2022 Report
- Progress on Wastewater Treatment – 2021 Update. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- JMP methodology: 2017 update and SDG baselines
- JMP 2018 Core Questions for Household Surveys: Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater in agriculture and aquaculture. Volume 1 – 4 available in English and French
- Call to action on climate resilient sanitation
- Sanitation workers global report, research agenda and learning hub
- Reflecting on TrackFin 2012-2020
- Exploring the WHO/UNICEF JMP database on inequalities in WASH services (video)
- WHO/UNICEF JMP methods for monitoring SDG targets for WASH in households (video)
- SDG means of implementation: Targets 6.a & 6.b, the 2021/2022 GLAAS cycle (video)
- SDG Baselines: drinking water services (video)
- 2021 global status of water and sanitation (video)
- Exploring the WHO/UNICEF JMP database on inequalities in WASH services (video)
- SDG Baselines: Sanitation Services (video)
Reports
Related documents/videos
Guidelines and risk management
Training
- WHO Academy: For a healthier world: safely managed sanitation
- Sanitation safety planning SSP learning hub
- WHO Academy: Water safety planning for urban water supply systems an introduction
- Water safety plans training package.
- Water safety plan audit training. Training package and videos
- PAHO: Climate-resilient water safety Plans (Spanish and English)
Resources
- Guidelines on sanitation and health. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality: Fourth edition incorporating the first and second addenda, 2022
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Vol. 3: surveillance and control of community supplies.
- Guidelines for drinking-water quality: small water supplies
- Developing drinking-water quality regulations and standards, 2018
- A global overview of national regulations and standards for drinking-water quality
- Domestic water quantity, service level and health, 2nd edition
- Protecting surface water for health: Identifying, assessing and managing drinking-water quality risks in surface-water catchments
- Protecting groundwater for health: Managing the quality of drinking-water sources.
- Safe drinking-water from desalination
- Potable reuse: guidance for producing safe drinking-water, 2017
- Water safety in distribution systems
- Water safety in buildings
- Evaluating household water treatment options.
- International scheme to evaluate household water treatment technologies
- Toolkit for monitoring and evaluating household water treatment and safe storage
- Boil water
- Quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA): application for water safety management.
- Water quality and health: review of turbidity
- Lead in drinking-water: health risks, monitoring and corrective actions
- Arsenic primer: guidance on the investigation and mitigation of arsenic contamination
- Chemical hazards in drinking-water
- Microplastics in drinking-water
- Toxic cyanobacteria in water, 2nd edition
- Management of radioactivity in drinking-water. Available in English and Chinese
- Additional drinking-water quality resources
- Water safety plan manual: step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers, second edition, including Water safety plan templates and worked example
- Water safety plan: a field guide to improving drinking-water safety in small communities. Available in English, French and Russian
- Think big start small scale up: A road map to support country-level implementation of water safety plans
- Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change. Also available in French here
- A guide to equitable water safety planning: ensuring no one is left behind.
- A practical guide to auditing water safety plans. Available in English, French and Japanese
- Water safety portal
- Guidelines on recreational water quality: Volume 1 coastal and fresh waters
Tools
- Water safety plan manual, first edition: step-by-step risk management for drinking-water suppliers. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Polish, Korean, Persian
- Water safety planning for small community water supplies: step-by-step risk management guidance for drinking-water supplies in small communities. Available in English, French and Russian
- Sanitary inspection packages for drinking-water
- Water safety plan quality assurance tool
- PAHO: Climate-resilient water safety plans (Spanish and English)
- PAHO: Climate-resilient sanitation safety Planning (Spanish and English)
- Climate-resilient water safety plans: managing health risks associated with climate variability and change. Also available in French here
- Steps to achieve universal access to safely managed sanitation
- Sanitation inspections for sanitation systems for sanitation systems: user guide
- Sanitary inspection form for sanitation systems – PDF and tablet formats
- Sanitation safety planning manual – second edition Available in English, French, Russian, Spanish
- GCF Water Project Design Guidelines Part 3: Practical guidelines for designing climate-resilient sanitation projects
Reports
- State of the world’s sanitation. Available in English, French and Spanish
- State of the world's drinking water: An urgent call to action to accelerate progress on ensuring safe drinking water for all. Executive Summary in English and French
- State of the world's hand hygiene: A global call to action to make hand hygiene a priority in policy and practice
Related documents/videos
- Water safety planning: an introduction to WSP principles and steps (video)
- Introduction to sanitation safety planning (video)
WASH in specific settings – health care facilities, emergencies and schools
Training
- WHO Academy: Water and Sanitation for Health Facility Improvement Tool (WASH FIT) for improved quality of care
- WHO Academy: Mainstreaming of gender equality, disability and social inclusion in WASH in healthcare facilities
- WHO Academy: Standard precautions: Hand hygiene
- WHO Academy: Standard precautions: Waste management
- Training modules in health-care waste management
Resources
- WHO/UNICEF WASH FIT website
- JMP Global, regional and national data on WASH in HCF
- WHO/UNICEF WASH in HCFs knowledge portal and country progress tracker
- Consensus Statement: Role of policymakers and partners in implementing the Global Framework for Action on water, sanitation, hygiene, waste, and electricity services in health care facilities
- WASH FIT Implementation Report
- WHO guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. Available in English, French and Spanish
- Surveillance of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools: a practical tool. Available in English and Russian
- Pandemic preparedness in schools
- Updated WHO/WEDC technical notes on WASH in emergencies.
- UNHCR WASH emergency tools
- UNHCR WASH manual for refugee settings
Tools
- WHO/UNICEF Country Progress Tracker. Online form to submit updates, available here
- Practical Guide: practical step-by-step guidance on adapting and using WASH FIT
- WASH FIT Manual for Trainers
- Training modules with trainer notes and participatory exercises.
- Fact sheet 1: Strengthening the resilience of WASH services in health care facilities to climate impacts
- Fact sheet 2: Gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI)
- Fact sheet 3: Safe plumbing for WASH services in health care facilities
- Fact sheet 4: Safe and sustainable health care waste management
- Fact sheet 5: Hand hygiene improvement: a multimodal approach
- Fact sheet 6: Environmental Cleaning
- Assessment form (excel and Kobo)
- How to use the WASH FIT assessment form in Kobo toolbox
Reports
- Universal water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in all health care facilities to achieve quality care: Global framework for action 2024–2030
- Implementation of the water and sanitation for health facility improvement tool (WASH FIT): Global Report
- Water, sanitation, hygiene, waste and electricity services in health care facilities: progress on the fundamentals
- WASH in health care facilities 2023 data update: Special focus on primary health care
- Progress on WASH in health care facilities: Special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control (IPC)
- Global analysis of health care waste in the context of COVID-19
- WHO/UNICEF Global progress report on WASH in health care facilities fundamentals first in 2020. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
- WHO/UNICEF WASH in health care facilities: Practical steps to achieve universal access to quality care in 2019. Available in English, French, Spanish and Russian
- WHO/UNICEF JMP Core questions for monitoring water, sanitation and hygiene at health care facilities. Available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and Russian
Related documents/videos
- WHO guidance for climate resilient and environmentally sustainable health care facilities. Available in English, French and Spanish
- Global analysis of health care waste in the context of Covid-19 (video)
- Sanitation for health care facilities in the context of COVID-19 (video)
- Science in 5 -- medical waste (video)
- Environmental cleaning in the context of Covid-19 (video)
WASH-related diseases and risks
Training
- WHO Academy: Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: key concepts and interventions
- WHO Academy: Water, sanitation and hygiene for the prevention and care of neglected tropical diseases
Resources
- Water, sanitation, hygiene and health: A primer for health professionals
- Guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics
- WASH and health working together: a ‘how-to’ guide for neglected tropical disease programmes, second edition, with core annexes and supplementary tools for situation analysis, planning and programme design, and implementation and monitoring
- Infection prevention and control and water, sanitation and hygiene measures for home care and isolation for mpox in resource-limited settings: interim operational guide
- Considerations for wastewater and environmental surveillance for monkeypox virus: Interim guidance
- Environmental surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to complement other public health surveillance
- Water and sanitation interventions to prevent and control mosquito borne disease: focus on emergencies
- Technical note: Water, sanitation and hygiene and infection prevention and control in cholera treatment structures
- Addressing climate change: supplement to the WHO water, sanitation and hygiene strategy 2018-2025
Tools
- Costing tool for estimating the cost of interventions to improve hand hygiene in domestic settings
- WASH-related disease burden estimation tool
- WASH-related burden of disease – Global Health Observatory
Reports
- Burden of disease attributable to unsafe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene: 2019 update
Related documents/videos
- Antimicrobial resistance in the environment: Understanding the basics for national action, also in Spanish and French (video)
- WASH and antimicrobial resistance (video)