Global Sanitation Fund

The Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) is a multi-donor United Nations trust fund that aims to help large numbers of people in developing countries improve their sanitation and adopt good hygiene practices. GSF is an innovative way to finance sustainable development.

Currently, 2.4 billion people lack access to decent sanitation, and close to a billion people defecate in the open.Diarrheal disease, a preventable disease largely caused by poor sanitation and hygiene, is a leading cause of child malnutrition and mortality, claiming around 760,000 lives of children under 5 every year.

The GSF, along with a diverse range of sector actors, aims to help address the sanitation and hygiene crisis by enabling tens of millions of people to live in open defecation free (ODF) environments and access adequate toilets and handwashing facilities. These activities are also aimed at supporting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those related to sanitation and hygiene. The United Nations system has identified global funding for sanitation and hygiene as key to enabling member countries to achieve their national development targets.

The GSF funds behaviour change activities to help large numbers of poor people in hard to reach areas attain safe sanitation and adopt good hygiene practices. These activities are described as being community-based, supporting national efforts, and bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders. The GSF works with a range of prominent entities in the water, sanitation and hygiene sectors including the World Bank, Water Aid, UN-Water, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, Global Poverty Project and the CLTS Foundation.

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