About
The equity focus set out by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development demands new ways to deliberately extend services to unserved populations. Successful water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and neglected tropical disease (NTD) partnerships have the potential to help achieve this ambition. But working together in new ways requires new ways of thinking.
This toolkit will help you – whether you are a NTD programme manager or programme partner – to work with the WASH community, guiding you through building those partnerships, mobilising resources, and designing, implementing and evaluating interventions. Rather than a ‘best practice’ guide, it’s a set of tools based on real-life programme experience; you can choose and adapt tools according to your needs and local context. The toolkit will help you:
- Build multisectoral partnerships with key stakeholders: ministries, national and local WASH agencies, corporates, local health groups, behaviour change and communication experts, etc.
- Shape smart programme structures focused on accountability and shared goals.
- Build an adaptive and flexible approach to programming.
- Ensure sustainability by building local capacity at every level.
- Support and complement clinical and public health interventions
for NTD control.
Working together in new ways requires new ways of thinking
How to use it?
You can use this toolkit:
- As a step by step planning guide.
- As a checklist to ensure that your planning process is on the right path.
- As a reference document to refresh your knowledge on planning and on WASH and NTDs.
- To engage non-NTD partners in planning and delivery.
How was it developed?
The toolkit was developed in collaboration between the NTDs NGO Network WASH Working Group and the World Health Organization, drawing on the experience of member organizations and country NTD programmes. It draws on tools and practices used in the delivery of coordinated and integrated programmes for control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases.