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C. Sanitation

(f) Scaling up quality maternal and child health care in health facilities.

Access to sanitation services for the poor could also be expanded through dedicated comprehensive programmes, such as total sanitation campaigns .

The World Bank's Public Expenditure Tracking System could be used, as appropriate, as a model for monitoring the performance and accountability of sanitation systems.

In view of women's role in household sanitation and hygiene, awareness raising campaigns can be effective when targeted to this audience, mobilizing women to spread the sanitation and hygiene message.

12.8.2 Sanitation and drinking water

The Dakar Roadmap resulting from the First Global Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Forum offers another useful model for developing countries to meet the sanitation goals.

Strategies for conveying key sanitation and hygiene messages, for example, about hand washing, and for promoting sanitation solutions have proven effective when they are culturally and gender sensitive.

Responding to sanitation needs in urban and rural areas

Rural sanitation could also be improved through strengthening health extension services.

Public infrastructure

This could involve a combination of targeting the sanitation needs of the poor and increasing support for hygiene education, which can leverage domestic sanitation demand and investment.

Treating sanitation as both a right and a civic responsibility is an approach that can help to shape both individual behaviour and community action for improving sanitation.

According to the 1994 health development plan, the number of formal health provision services is as follows

All major government health facilities have separate facilities for women.

Normative documents were produced to guide practices by the health services and community actions.

Solar energy can provide entire villages with lighting, pumped water, refrigeration, and the electrification of health centers, schools, and other public facilities.

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Similarly, the use of satellite communications in telemedicine made quality public health accessible to the underprivileged in areas that had limited health care.

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Wider though still limited access to improved sanitation services.

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While hygiene education and awareness raising are often continuing processes requiring long term donor and government commitment, they can catalyse private demand for sanitation services, thus leveraging household and community sanitation investments.

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Ecological sanitation (ecosan) approaches employed in a number of countries are based on this approach.

A holistic approach to sanitation could include measures for changing attitude and behaviour as a complement to investments in sanitation facilities and infrastructure.

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In reaction to outbreaks of hepatitis E, hygiene education campaigns and soap distribution took place, efforts to improve water and sanitation provisions were stepped up and overall facilities in several settlements of internally displaced persons were upgraded.

In theory all health facilities from Basic Health Units to the large hospitals, are equipped to provide at least some form of trauma treatment.

(e) To promote the provision of clean water in all communities for all their children, as well as universal access to sanitation

The lack of resources to run a functioning jail (sanitation, water, food) was also discussed.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development recognized that sanitation is an important priority in its own right.

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The public health budget is currently insufficient to provide health staff and facilities with adequate and appropriate supplies, equipment, operational budgets and support for medical training.

General Health Care

Subsidies for sanitation services and sewer connections, whether direct or cross subsidies, could be justified in terms of the public health and environmental benefits from widespread use of sewerage and waste water treatment.

14.10 Access to health facilities for women in the rural areas has been referred to in Article 12.

The importance of sanitation to effective management of water resources and protection of water related ecosystems was emphasized.

It is hoped that as education spreads and the rural populace becomes aware of the importance of sanitation the situation will improve.

Community based organizations and non governmental organizations could act as catalysts for improved hygiene and sanitation in rural communities, and Governments could assist in training local suppliers of sanitation fixtures and services.