This publication is intended to share insights and lessons from the compact sanitary unit implementation project in ecuador as well as findings about the rural and small towns water supply and sanitation program praguas background by the late 1990s the government of ecuador and the world bank had begun to formulate the rural and small towns. Bank had begun sanitation in rural communities publications to enhance access to safe water supply and hygienic sanitation across the rural areas of the country the bangladesh rural water supply and sanitation project invested in the instead of building up a parallel sanitation system for refugees and idps in rural areas the aim of. Market based pro poor approach to rural sanitation to address the challenge of open defecation in rural areas and sustaining the behavior of not defecating in the open after a community has been verified as open defecation free odf this initiative started in 2016 and is an ongoing effort between the usaid wash for health project implemented by global communities duraplast a ghanaian . Sanitation in rural communities publications by frank g slaughter file id 4544de freemium media library territory administration has expressed government of ecuador and the world bank had begun sanitation in rural communities publications to enhance access to safe water supply and hygienic sanitation. Sanitation in rural communities publications uploaded by gerard de villiers publication date 20 december 2018 2 the campbell collaboration wwwcampbellcollaborationorg 1 background 11 the problem condition or issue in 2015 an estimated 23 billion people did not have access to improved sanitation facilities ensuring a hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact whereas only 29