Designing context-specific implementation strategies to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene in urban low-income settlements in Nigeria: Outcome of stakeholders’ collaborative approach

Urban low-income settlements in Nigeria face significant challenges in accessing Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) services, exacerbating health disparities and poverty. A CHORUS Innovation Fund project collaborated to design effective and sustainable solutions is crucial for improving WASH outcomes. This study aims to present the process and outcomes of co-designing context-specific implementation strategies of WASH interventions in urban low-income settlements in Anambra State, Nigeria.

The project used a stakeholder-driven co-design process involving community members, researchers, and policymakers from both health and non-health sectors to develop context-specific implementation strategies for WASH interventions, and highlights the importance of using such a collaborative approach to design effective and sustainable implementation strategies of WASH interventions for urban low-income settlements.

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Ezenwaka U, Ojiakor I, Okeke C, Ikeako K, Nwankwo J, Anyanebechi W, Elsey H and Onwujekwe O (2026) Designing context-specific implementation strategies to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene in urban low-income settlements in Nigeria: outcome of stakeholders’ collaborative approach. Front. Public Health 14:1742248. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1742248