Ending Open Defecation
What’s at stake?, According to the latest published data, [1] 122 million people were practicing open defecation (OD) in WCAR in 2015. This number has increased by 34 million since 2000 as the rate of progress in ending OD was insufficient to account for population growth. WCAR accounts for 14% of global OD with eight countries having more than 5 million open…, Our goal, Change strategies, In West and Central Africa, UNICEF will carry out these integrated strategies to accelerate progress toward change. The focus in the next four years will be on supporting countries to align their sanitation policies, strategy, road map and subnational operational plans to the new SDG areas and to Pan-African commitments. [1] UNICEF will generate…