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WASH, NUTRITION AND COMMUNITY-LED TOTAL SANITATION REVOLUTIONS IN INSIGHT AND ACTION

DSAI and Irish Aid Seminar on Nutrition and WaSH: integration, research and future challenges

held atPrinting House, Trinity College Dublin, 19 May 2015

Robert ChambersInstitute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Opening up the black box of undernutrition

FOOD - ORAL AVAILABILITYACCESS

SHIT - ANALABSORPTIONANTIBODIES

ALLOPATHOGENS

The 5 As of NutritionORAL -FOOD

AVAILABILITY

ACCESS

ANAL - FTIs

ABSORPTIONEvacuation – diarrhoeasTheft - nematodes – ascaris, hookworm (sucking blood), trichuris,

tapeworms, giardia? Diminished, damaged and leaky gut-

ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHYthrough bacterial infections etc

ANTIBODIES to fight infections, using nutritional energy and proteins (immunologists please clarify)

ALLOPATHOGENS other pathogens - liverfluke, hepatitis A, B and E, typhoid fever, polio, trachoma, various zoonoses etc

ENVIRONMENTAL ENTEROPATHY (EE)

• EE has been epidemiologically linked to living in an unsanitary environment

• People living in contaminated environments have leaky, chronically inflamed intestines

• Gut: short blunted villi, tissue infiltrated with inflammatory cells. Associated with ↑ energy, protein, carbohydrate needs

• Diverts nutrients from growth to infection fighting

Korpe & Petri, Trends in Molecular Medicine June 2012, Vol. 18, No. 6

What is stunting

Early PEM in childhood. Growth failure. The children in this picture were aged 2, 4 1/2 and 5 1/2 years from left to right. The first two are normal but the last is grossly retarded in growth although the weight/height ratio is normal and there is no evidence of clinical malnutrition. Stunting is the commonest evidence of chronic, mild PEM.

Effects of stunting on brain development

Normal Stunting

Typical brain cells Extensive branching

Impaired brain cellsLimited branching

Abnormal, shorter branchesSource: Cordero E et al, 1993

The Double Threat of OD and Population Density

Spears, Dean (2012) ‘How Much International Variation in Child Height can Sanitation Explain?’ Rice Working Paper, 10 December 2012

Each circle represents a single Demographic and Health Survey round, reflecting one country in one year. The linear trend shows that children are shorter, on average, in countries where they are exposed to more OD. The circle sizes are proportional to population. The three largest circles represent surveys at different times in India

Change in number of

persons per square kilometerwho defecate in

the open

source: Gupta & Spears, 2014

0 10 0

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1995 20081 30 2

99 95

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1995 20083 60 2

97 92

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1995 20084 90 3

9688

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1995 2008

61214

9384

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1322

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8774

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10170

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9079

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17

360

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83

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30

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370

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69

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Poorest 10% 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

9th Richest 10%

India: Rural areas

A RAPID RUN THROUGH CLTS

MappingBangladesh

Transect walk: looking for signs of ODMadagascar

Shit calculationKenya

Ignition: shock and disgustKenya

Disgust and IgnitionBolivia

Who wants to stop open defecation?Zambia

Verification and MonitoringEthiopia and Bangladesh

ODF DeclarationIndia

Pride, convenience, safety and self-respectIndonesia

Handwashing

For all the amazing achievements of CLTS, there are, to put it mildly, many third generation challenges

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