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UN Video library: Sanitation

2010

Creating a sanitation revolution in South Africa
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Place: South Africa
Duration: 3min23sec
Chief Macha has been leading a quiet revolution in his community. In just two years, access to sanitation in Tonga, Southern Zambia, has doubled from 50 per cent to 100 per cent.

Interview with Clarissa Brocklehurst, Chief of WASH program
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Duration: 3min02sec
On the occasion of first annual high-level meeting for "Sanitation and Water for All", Clarissa Brocklehurst from UNICEF emphasizes the importance of bringing together all sectors particularly the financing Ministers to ensure that sanitation and water is a development priority.

Transforming Kibera: David's Story
UNTV 21st Century
Place: Kenya
Duration: 6min46sec
This video captures the inspiring story of one young man: 19-year-old David Were lives in Africa's largest slum where polluted water, disease and safety are daily concerns. He tells his story in his own words.

2009

Asia's Sanitation Challenge
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Place: Asia
Duration: 2min37sec
Many of Asia's poorest people live in unhealthy, squalid conditions, with no clean water or sanitation access. Families cannot escape poverty without water and hygiene infrastructure.

Bringing proper sanitation to rural Afghanistan
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Place: Afghanistan
Duration : 1min27sec
This video shows how UNICEF and its partners work together to ensure that Afghan children have access to clean water and sanitation.

EcoSan Toilets: Sustainable Sanitation
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)
Duration: 14min13sec
Video record of a regional workshop on ecological sanitation which took place in Bangalore, India, in February 2008.

Sanitation: A Perfect Deal!
World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Place: Peru
Duration: 6min58sec
This film represents a good example of how a personal initiative can grow into a community movement to improve sanitation in several regions of Peru, by finding the right financing for the projects and collaborating with local authorities.

Sanitation improves school attendance
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United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Duration: 2min06sec
This video shows WASH facilities impact in school attendance.

(The) story of Younus
World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Duration: 5min22sec
This short animated movie tells the story of Younus, who starts developing a working sanitation market when he loses his job as a teacher in Pakistan. He is asked to travel to other villages to help them become Open Defecation Free areas.

Towards clean cities: Addressing sanitation in urban India
World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Place: India
Duration: 8min02sec
This video advocates the need for a holistic approach to urban sanitation: instead of focusing on fragmented approaches to the sanitation problem in urban areas, an approach which looks at creating open defecation free cities.

2008

Artificial wetlands to treat wastewater in Egypt
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Place: Egypt
Duration: 4min36sec
This video shows the Lake Manzala Engineered Wetland Project, which investigated the suitability of using artificial wetlands as a low-cost alternative for treating sewage from cities, towns, and villages located on the fringes of the Nile Valley and Delta, where ample land is available.

2007

Kibera Kenya: Understanding Small Scale Service Providers
World Bank Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)
Place: Kenya
Duration: 9min41sec
This film follows Patrick Mburu, a small scale provider of sanitation services in Africa's largest informal settlement.

Sanitation in Ethiopia
World Bank, Reuters
Place: Ethiopia
Duration: 6min16sec
The United Nations reports that most Ethiopians do not have access to proper sanitation. This video describes a creative way of introducing the concept and need of basic sanitation in rural Ethiopia.