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Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania

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dc.creator Barasa, Violet
dc.creator Waldman, Linda
dc.date 2022-01-31T14:19:26Z
dc.date 2022-01-31T14:19:26Z
dc.date 2022-01-31
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:52:11Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:52:11Z
dc.identifier Barasa, V. and Waldman, L. (2022) Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania, IDS Working Paper 562, Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, DOI: 10.19088/IDS.2022.004
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-916-0
dc.identifier 2040-0209
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17091
dc.identifier Participation Power and Social Change
dc.identifier 10.19088/IDS.2022.004
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198899
dc.description This paper explores access to water, sanitation, and health in pastoral communities in northern Tanzania. It argues that the concept of gender, used on its own, is not enough to understand the complexities of sanitation, hygiene, water, and health. It explores pastoralists’ views and perspectives on what is ‘clean’, ‘safe’, and ‘healthy’, and their need to access water and create sanitary arrangements that work for them, given the absence of state provision of modern water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure. Although Tanzania is committed to enhancing its citizens’ access to WASH services, pastoral sanitation and hygiene tend to be overlooked and little attention is paid to complex ways in which access to ‘clean’ water and ‘adequate sanitation’ is structured in these communities. This paper offers an intersectional analysis of water and sanitation needs, showing how structural discrimination in the form of a lack of appropriate infrastructure, a range of sociocultural norms and values, and individual stratifiers interact to influence the sanitation and health needs of pastoralist men, women, boys, and girls.
dc.description Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
dc.language en
dc.publisher Institute of Development Studies
dc.relation IDS Working Paper;562
dc.rights This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, the work is not used for commercial purposes, and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights Institute of Development Studies
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Health
dc.subject Water
dc.title Exploring the Intersection of Sanitation, Hygiene, Water, and Health in Pastoralist Communities in Northern Tanzania
dc.type IDS Working Paper
dc.coverage Tanzania


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