by Polly Markandya | Oct 21, 2019 | News
The MapSan trial was a major 4-year research project which aimed to evaluate the health impacts of a shared sanitation intervention delivered by WSUP in the slums of Maputo. It’s the largest ever high-rigour study of the health impacts of urban sanitation. And now the...
by Polly Markandya | Sep 3, 2019 | News
In a previous blog post back in January, we described the start of a research project which is aiming to assess and model how faecal pathogens move through the environment in a low-income urban community in Dhaka in Bangladesh. By Guy Norman, WSUP’s Director of...
by Polly Markandya | Jul 29, 2019 | News
Improving sanitation in slum communities is a complex challenge. Particularly challenging is working out how it can be financed. By Guy Norman, WSUP’s Director of Research and Evaluation Now if you believe that subsidy is a Bad Thing or just ain’t ever gonna happen,...
by Polly Markandya | Jul 4, 2019 | News
In Kisumu, Kenya, the majority of households rely on pit latrines but most pit emptiers do not work safely – which is bad for the customer, the neighbourhood, and the emptiers themselves. This lack of adequate services is an opportunity for those who can deliver...
by Polly Markandya | Jun 26, 2019
Experience from SHARE, REACH and the Urban Sanitation Research Initiative Delivering high-quality research can be challenging. But achieving research uptake – impact on policy or other aspects of the “real world” – is enormously challenging. In low-income contexts the...