The Sanitation Learning Hub

Everyone has the right to safely managed sanitation and hygiene. We need to make sure no one is left behind in the drive to end open defecation for good. We believe that tackling the complex challenge of achieving safely managed sanitation and hygiene for all requires timely, relevant and actionable learning. We cut across organisational and geographical barriers, encouraging honest reflections of what works and what doesn’t. Our mission is to enable the sector to innovate, adapt and collaborate in a rapidly evolving landscape, feeding learning into policies and practice. We support learning through sharing good practices, methodologies and innovations in programming, policy and research. We focus on participatory and community-centred learning and research approaches to ensure that no one is left behind. We innovate and test action-orientated approaches providing timely and relevant evidence and insights. We promote these approaches to support the sector to quickly adapt to meet the diverse needs of varying contexts. We don’t do this alone! Collaboration is essential to our approach. Whether organising and facilitating workshops, writing key publications (like our Frontiers), or undertaking research – we work with global partners, governments and practitioners from across the sector. Creating a safe exploration space leads to valuable connections, insights and concrete steps forward. This in turn results in learning events, publications and research findings that are big thinking, accessible and practice.