Myanmar
Focus
Myanmar joined the global WASH campaign in 2002. In 2003, the WSSCC national coordinator, based in the Government’s Central Health Education Bureau, developed a WASH programme that aims to advocate for WASH in Myanmar and mobilize communities to participate in the global campaign, and more specifically to organise women and youth groups and promote them as advocates for sustainable WASH action plans.
The first priority of such WASH action plans is hygiene promotion, followed by environmental sanitation. This approach fits in well with ongoing programmes in Myanmar that promote a self-help approach for sanitation based on partnership, and that give priority to hygiene as a very cost-effective approach to improved sanitation and health.
