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February 12, 2025

Transforming Sanitation into Opportunity: Driving Access, Growth and Environmental Impact in Kampala

In Kampala, SHF is driving new partnerships and innovative financing models to expand access to Next Generation Sanitation (NGS) in...

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February 06, 2025

New SHF-RHSC partnership aims to improve understanding of the menstrual health market and better support trade flows in LMICs

There is growing recognition of the potential of a thriving menstrual health market to provide life-changing access to safe, quality...

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February 05, 2025

SHF joins Global Health Campus in Geneva

Global UN fund’s move highlights the vital link between health and sanitation The UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) is joining...

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January 20, 2025

Building A Thriving Menstrual Health Market for all: The Road from Davos

In January 2024, the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) took menstrual...

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December 02, 2024

Sanitation Financing to take centrestage at global One Water Summit

Sustainable financing solutions, including the UN SHF’s market-based approach, to be showcased at much anticipated Heads of States...

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November 26, 2024

New SHF-funded project aims to accelerate Nigeria's sanitation economy to strengthen markets, access and health resilience

WaterAid Nigeria to implement SHF-funded project to support government efforts on market-based sanitation and cholera prevention and...

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November 18, 2024

Next Generation Sanitation: harnessing the power of finance and innovation

On World Toilet Day 2024, SHF Board Chair, Cecilia Akintomide, and Executive Director, Dominic O'Neill, outline both the imperative...

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November 14, 2024

As the climate crisis deepens, innovative sanitation solutions help strengthen community’s health resilience in Uganda

In Uganda’s Kawongo Landing Site, one of the busy trading ports and villages around the country’s many lakes, increasingly frequent...

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November 08, 2024

Kenya’s Sanitation Economy, where public financing and private sector innovation meet

SHF has been implementing a multi-faceted approach in Kenya to build its sanitation economy and advance its journey toward more...

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October 22, 2024

“Any rights-based approach to Menstrual Health must include choice”: Community Health & Gender Activist Naomi Tulay-Solanke

Noted Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) champion and SHF Board Member, Noami Tulay-Solanke, outlines how access to safe, quality and...

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October 17, 2024

SHF Statement on the Global Commission on the Economics of Water Report

The UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) welcomes the Global Commission on the Economics of Water’s (GCEW) report published today...

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October 02, 2024

Toward global standards for menstrual products: SHF allocates grant to Swedish Institute for Standards to bolster participation of emerging economies

Global UN fund awards USD 250,000 grant for the development and adoption of global menstrual product standards. Supporting Low- and...

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