News December 18, 2023 Investment in Menstrual Health and Hygiene offers promising potential for impact With 1.8 billion people menstruating around the world every month, access to menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is critical to their...
News August 22, 2023 SHF Statement on 2023 JMP Report The UN’s Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) welcomes the latest progress report of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water...
News March 30, 2023 SHF Annual Report 2022 looks back at critical foundational year for the sanitation economy model Operational since July 2021, the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF), is the only UN fund dedicated to Sustainable Development Goal...
News March 23, 2023 Switzerland contributes record CHF 16 million to tackle global sanitation, hygiene and menstrual health crisis Funds to be leveraged by the SHF to catalyze national sanitation economies in Africa and Asia BERN/GENEVA, 23 MARCH 2023 - The UN’s...
News February 27, 2023 A spotlight on the circular sanitation economy at the UN 2023 Water Conference Nigeria, WTO and SHF host official side event on Catalysing sanitation economies to deliver on SDG Target 6.2 The Federal Republic of...
News December 06, 2022 Former World Bank Vice President Jingdong Hua joins SHF Board The Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Jingdong Hua, former Vice President and Treasurer...
News August 12, 2022 SHF commissions study to quantify potential and impact of menstrual health interventions PSI-Europe will work with the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) to generate cost/benefit estimates and estimates of impact for...
Press Release July 05, 2022 Largest study of Sanitation Economies launched to accelerate progress on SDG 6.2 UN-hosted Sanitation and Hygiene Fund and the Toilet Board Coalition to assess the potential value of sanitation opportunities in...
Story June 22, 2022 3rd SHF Board meeting welcomes progress on delivering ambitious strategy The Board of the Sanitation and Hygiene Fund (SHF) met for the third time in June 2022 in a hybrid format. Under the leadership of...
Story May 28, 2022 28 May is World Menstrual Hygiene day and we at SHF can’t keep calm! As a new global fund set up to leverage innovative financing mechanisms to address the global sanitation, hygiene and menstrual...
Story May 12, 2022 Global health begins with sanitation, hygiene for all The world’s health crisis urgently needs to have the basics in place - sanitation and hygiene are essential for providing dignified...
Story May 12, 2022 Why is menstrual health investment still in the red? Half of the world’s population has or will menstruate but infrastructure and investment discussions rarely consider this. We need a...