WASH Library title: Impact and cost effectiveness

Center for Global Safe Water at Emory University -Atlanta, GA, US., 2011. Impact and cost effectiveness : why invest in school water, sanitation and hygiene?. Nairobi, Kenya: CARE Kenya.

• Local file: CARE-2011-Impact.pdf (373kB)

In 2006, the Government of Kenya, CARE, Emory University and Water.org entered a five-year partnership to evaluate the impacts of improved school WASH and try to understand what makes for successful school WASH programs. The partnership used a randomized, controlled trial in 185 primary schools in western Kenya.The reduction in girls’ absenteeism is striking and suggests that school WASH is a potential pathway for addressing gender inequity. [authors abstract]

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Subjects: schools | kenya | safe water supply | water costs | gender | sdihyg;