Technical Guide for Sanitation Marketing WVG

Sanitation and hygiene remain a global challenge. Even more threatening are the rural-urban disparities and increasing inequalities in sanitation services. The WHO/UNICEF JMP report (2019 estimates that seven out of ten people who still lacked basic sanitation services lived in rural area and one third lived in the Least Developed Countries. In Ghana, about 25% of the population in urban areas do not have access to basic sanitation in contrast to 17% in rural settings.

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