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Unilever has announced a commitment to help 25 million people gain improved access to toilets by 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

This commitment is part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan \u2013 Unilever\u2019s blueprint for sustainable growth.<\/p>\n

The project is a contribution to the company\u2019s goal of helping one billion people improve their health and well-being by 2020 and sit alongside existing goals on providing access to safe and affordable drinking water, and education on the importance of handwashing with soap.<\/p>\n

An estimated 2.5 billion people \u2013 over one third of the world\u2019s population \u2013 live without access to adequate sanitation. Of these, over one billion continue to defecate in the open.<\/p>\n

This has a serious impact on people\u2019s health, nutrition, education, on gender equality and sustainable economic development.
\nIt is a global tragedy that a child dies of diseases related to poor sanitation every two minutes and it could be prevented.<\/p>\n

\u201cBusiness can and must be part of the solution in addressing global challenges that affect us all,\u201d said Unilever CEO, Paul Polman.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we introduced the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan to positively contribute to the societies where we operate. With our portfolio of health and hygiene brands, our understanding of consumers\u2019 needs and our global reach, we are uniquely placed to help improve people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

This target will be delivered by Unilever\u2019s toilet cleaning brand, Domestos and the Unilever Foundation, by scaling up existing partnership programmes.<\/p>\n

To deliver this commitment, Domestos and the Unilever Foundation are working with UNICEF to change sanitation behaviours and empower communities to become free of open defecation.<\/p>\n

Domestos is also partnering with social enterprise eKutir, to deliver market-based models that enable entrepreneurs to set up local sanitation businesses in rural areas, and running school programmes with locally-based NGOs, which improve school facilities and educate the next generation of children on the importance of sanitation and hygiene.<\/p>\n

So far, the partnership with UNICEF has already reached over one million people with sanitation behaviour change interventions, and this will result in these individuals living in open defecation-free communities.<\/p>\n

Domestos is also working with other leading organisations including DFID, Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), World Toilet Organization, Water and Sanitation Africa and Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD) with the mutual aim to bring even greater speed and scale to sanitation solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur commitment is the natural next step for Domestos,\u201d said Jean-Laurent Ingles, Senior Vice President for Household Care, Unilever.<\/p>\n

\u201cDomestos aims to \u2018kill germs for good\u2019 \u2013 that\u2019s why we\u2019re working to provide access to clean and safe toilets for people worldwide. Our commitment is about more than Corporate Social Responsibility. It\u2019s about establishing a clear and sustainable link between tackling sanitation and our business ambitions. This is where the biggest opportunity lies for businesses, and where we can add greatest value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the UN Millennium Development Goals, the sanitation target is the most off-track. Too many interventions have failed because they have addressed only the hardware and have not taken the software \u2013 human psychology and behaviour \u2013 into account.<\/p>\n

Unilever is well positioned to tackle this urgent issue and has a proven track record of implementing and supporting WASH behaviour change programmes.<\/p>\n

Unilever believes that universal access to Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) is essential to helping lift people out of poverty.<\/p>\n

For this reason, the company is advocating for a standalone goal on Water and Sanitation in the post-2015 Development Agenda.<\/p>\n

This must be supported by targets and indicators that recognise the importance of ending open defecation; improving hygiene practises and tackling current inequalities in access to WASH.<\/p>\n

Without access to clean, safe toilets, affordable drinking water, and the adoption of basic hygiene practices \u2013 such as handwashing with soap \u2013 too many people around the world will continue to die from preventable diseases such as diarrhoea.<\/p>\n

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Source: Uniliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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