“School Sanitation and Hygiene Education (SSHE) handbook for managers”, is the result of collaboration between the Water and Environmental Sanitation Section of UNICEF, India Country Office and the International Water and Sanitation Centre, (IRC) Delft, Netherlands. Contributions of Kathleen Shordt and Marielle Snel are deeply contributed for the basic text. Amudha Periasamy, PO, SSHE, UNICEF has adapted the global context to the Indian reality and has enriched the book with photographs and best practices identified from different states. These show the richness and diversity of experience in India.

“Sanitation Policies", written by Myles F. Elledge, Environmental Health Project, published by IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre in May 2003, Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) is a new web-based initiative from IRC and analysis of sanitation policies from all over the world. As this TOP emphasis’s, no sanitation policy will be effectively implemented without the full involvement and participation of stakeholders at all levels. There must be belief in the policy aims and objectives, and, at the implementation end, a trusting relationship between beneficiaries and implementing agencies, a fact best illustrated here by the projects in West Bengal and Kerala, India.