Evidence on how to improve WASH infrastructure in Nigeria

This workshop is for policymakers, local and international NGOs and other stakeholders in the Nigerian WASH sector. It will discuss findings from our research on how to improve WASH infrastructure in Nigeria. This workshop will take place online. To sign up, please fill in your details here.

We explore the impact of two interventions to reduce open defecation and increase toilet ownership through randomised control trials, implemented by WaterAid in Ekiti and Enugu state. These are

• Community-led Total Sanitation (CLTS), a participatory community intervention that has been widely rolled out across developing countries
• Sanitation marketing, which aims at stimulating the supply and quality of sanitation products marketed to households

We will further present findings on WASH infrastructure and hygiene behaviour in informal and formal daycare centres in Ogun state, filling a knowledge gap about WASH in preschool settings. These settings play a key role in providing a healthy early child environment, with large potential to improve health and mortality of children under 5 years and yield lifelong well-being returns.

Programme

The research was conducted with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. It involved collaborations between Wateraid, Nigeria’s WASH officials, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London in the UK and Covenant University in Ota.