Documents et rapports

Children Need Clean Water to Grow : E. Coli Contamination of Drinking Water and Childhood Nutrition in Bangladesh (anglais)

Water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions are increasingly recognized as essential for improving nutritional outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation...

Multi-Hazard Groundwater Risks to the Drinking Water Supply in Bangladesh : Challenges to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (anglais)

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found throughout Bangladesh but its quality (that is, arsenic and salinity contamination) and quantity...

Bangladesh - Investigating Nutrition-sensitive Wash : Nurturing the ‘Early Years’ of Life With Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene : Evidence and Policy Levers for Bangladesh (anglais)

Bangladesh made a number of laudable development achievements in the early millennium but can and should do more to improve human capital and the wellbeing of its population. Coupled with impressive achievements...

Water and Nutrition - A Framework for Action (anglais)

This framework for action was developed to support the inclusion of nutritional considerations in the design of water operations and to help formulate nutrition-enhancing water policy. Chronic undernutrition...

Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums : access, quality, and informality in service provision (anglais)

Urban slum residents often have worse health outcomes compared with other urbanites and even their rural counterparts. This suggests that slum residents do not always benefit from the "urban advantage"...

Reaching for the SDGs : the untapped potential of Tanzania’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector (anglais)

Promising progress : a diagnostic of water supply, sanitation, hygiene, and poverty in Bangladesh (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (anglais)

This summary report presents the findings of the Bangladesh WASH Poverty Diagnostic (BWPD) study led by the World Bank's Water and Poverty Global Practices. Though very few Bangladeshis now fetch water...

Urban water and sanitation in Tanzania : remaining challenges to providing safe, reliable, and affordable services for all (anglais)

This brief draws from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) report (World Bank, forthcoming), an initiative of the World Bank Water Global Practice (GP), which brings together analytics from across...

WASH for human development : can scaling up Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) interventions help children grow in Tanzania? (anglais)

This brief highlights recent analyses from the Tanzania WASH Poverty Diagnostic (TWPD) on trends in undernutrition over the years and among income groups. The analysis also identifies key drivers of high...

Does arsenic-contaminated drinking water limit early childhood development in Bangladesh ? (anglais)

Arsenic contamination in shallow groundwater aquifers remains a major barrier to providing access to safe drinking water in Bangladesh. Chronic exposure to arsenic has been shown to cause serious health...

Reaching for the SDGs : the untapped potential of Tanzania’s water supply, sanitation, and hygiene sector - executive summary (anglais)

Place and child health : the interaction of population density and sanitation in developing countries (anglais)

A long literature in demography debates the importance of place for health. This paper assesses whether the importance of dense settlement for child mortality and child height is moderated by exposure...