Rural Sanitation and Climate Change: Putting Ideas into Practice

Abstract

Climate change is a growing concern that exposes and deepens existing inequities and vulnerabilities with sanitation and hygiene access, use and safe management of facilities. It will continue to challenge the expansion of rural sanitation and hygiene coverage, with climate impacts disproportionately affecting already disadvantaged and marginalised groups. This publication unpacks the reasons behind the limited progress towards addressing climate change in the sanitation and hygiene sector, explores its impacts on rural sanitation and hygiene practices and provides actionable ideas to integrate climate thinking into rural sanitation and hygiene programming.