Explore Environmental Sanitation

A collection of short e-learning tools and job aids to guide sanitation officials regarding emptying, transport and treatment/disposal (fecal sludge management) appropriate for humanitarian contexts.

This poster set includes water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) posters to teach about good WASH practices, including household water treatment technologies.

Stop Microbes Poster Set

This collection contains the resources for both trainers and participants for the Environmental Sanitation workshop. This two-three day workshop is designed for WASH, community development and health organizations. The workshop explores the relationship between environmental sanitation, disease transmission and health. It addresses technical topics such as human excreta management including different latrine designs; animal excreta management; solid waste management; vector control for mosquitos and rodents; and domestic wastewater management.

This workshop is especially designed targeting total sanitation in community. With the whim of attaining open defecation free, the focus is shifted in constructing latrine; the quantitative goal only. However, this workshop is more focused on WASH details and headed to achieve safe water, improved sanitation, proper hygiene and their sustainability. Along with total sanitation, the flavor of delivering effective training adds up more weightage in training, with knowledge enhance the knowledge as well as skill of the trainer.

Through this lesson, you will learn how to make sure the emptying and transport services being provided to camps meet or exceed the minimum requirements.

Learn how to conduct a simple jar test to assess the soil composition that will help you determine an appropriate pit lining to prevent collapse.

In this fictional scenario, you will take on the role of a consultant that has been called in to evaluate the current sanitation situation at a camp. Through the evaluation, you will learn how to avoid common pitfalls associated with fecal sludge management for latrines built during a humanitarian crisis.

Take this quiz to learn the common factors that can impact how quickly latrine pits will fill.

If your latrine pits are filling quicker than you anticipated, use this list of critical points to understand what can be behind it.

Use this checklist to ensure that the critical points required for safe practice are met for the removal, transport and disposal of fecal sludge.

Good sanitation habits prevent transmission of microbes (latrines, soak pits, fences, waste disposal).

Time taken to assess soil stability before building the latrines is time well spent. This job aid shows you how to conduct a simple jar test to assess the soil composition.

This lesson plan focuses on the description of environmental sanitation and the role of individual, household and community to attain environment sanitation.

This is a package of all the technical briefs used in the Environmental Sanitation workshop.

This manual is for trainers who are interested in delivering training on environmental sanitation. It includes lessons plans and guidance on training delivery.

This environmental sanitation inspection form is used to evaluate the risk of animal excreta contamination in a community.

These forms are used to evaluate the risk of environmental sanitation contamination in a community. It includes forms for animal excreta management, domestic wastewater management, excreta management, hygiene practices, public facilities, solid waste management and vector control.

A video recording of the online training session on October 23, 2014 - Introduction to Environmental Sanitation. This webinar also serves as an introduction to CAWST's new environmental sanitation resources.

This environmental sanitation inspection form is used to evaluate the risk of contamination from vectors such as flies, mosquitos, and rodents.

This environmental sanitation inspection form is used to evaluate the risk of wastewater contamination in a community.

This environmental sanitation inspection form is used to evaluate the risk of human excreta contamination in a community.

This environmental sanitation inspection form is used to evaluate the risk of contamination in a community from the condition and use of public facilities.