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        Sarah Dickin

        Team Leader: Sanitation and Health; Senior Research Fellow

      • Status: Leave of absence
      • Role(s): Co-leader, SEI Initiative on Sustainable Sanitation
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      Dr. Sarah Dickin is a health geographer working on topics at the intersection of environment, development and human wellbeing. She has an inter-disciplinary background, holding a PhD in Geography and a BSc in Environmental Science and Biochemistry from McMaster University, Canada. As a Senior Research Fellow SEI Sarah co-led the SEI Initiative on Sustainable Sanitation, which comprised research, policy engagement and capacity development focused on improving understanding and uptake of sustainable sanitation, including environmental, institutional and social dimensions.

      Her current research interests include the links between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and health and well-being in low-income contexts, including development of robust tools for measuring social and gender outcomes, and improving understanding of a wider range of environmental exposure pathways in rural sanitation. Her research interests also include links between health, climate change, and sustainability, particularly related to the contributions of green space and nature-based solutions to well-being in cross-cultural contexts. She coordinates SEI’s participation in the Planetary Health Alliance.

      Before joining SEI Sarah was a Vanier scholar at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, and co-founded the Water Youth Network in 2012 to promote inclusive participation in the water sector. She has led research in Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Egypt, Malaysia and Uganda.

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      Publications by Sarah Dickin

      • Systematic mapping of gender equality and social inclusion in WASH interventions: knowledge clusters and gaps
      • Barriers to women's participation, leadership, and empowerment in community-managed water and sanitation in rural Bolivia
      • Implementation of the Afya conditional cash transfer intervention to retain women in the continuum of care: a mixed-methods process evaluation
      • Examining water and gender narratives and realities
      • Assessing mutual accountability to strengthen national WASH systems and achieve the SDG targets for water and sanitation
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      Perspectives by Sarah Dickin

      • Strengthening mutual accountability in WASH through multi-stakeholder platforms
      • Covid-19 and WASH
      • Measuring water and sanitation inequality – beyond taps and toilets
      • Beyond climate-proofing: gender dimensions of water insecurity in Burkina Faso
      • Sanitation could be the catalyst for sustainable development

      Featured stories with Sarah Dickin

      • Linking the supply and demand aspects of resource recovery in Naivasha, Kenya
      • World Water Day 2022
      • COP26: Considering the negative health effects of climate change
      • Urban October 2021
      • Gender and social equality in WASH
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      Projects and tools with Sarah Dickin

      • MapStakes: a stepwise tool for mapping stakeholders
      • OneHealth - WaSH network
      • sWASH&grow
      • Advancing evaluation of gender and social equality outcomes in WASH
      • Clean and Green
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