About the report and the collaboration

This report is the latest edition in a series of reports that Essity has been publishing since 2008 with the aim to raise awareness about the pivotal role hygiene, sanitation, and health play for well-being, for individuals and communities and to bring forward solutions to some of the problems we face in these areas.

Since 2014, Essity and WSSCC have partnered in the mission to encourage a global conversation about hygiene and health issues as well as opportunities across organizations, sectors, and countries. In 2016 we took the partnership further by jointly publishing the Hygiene Matters Report: Joining Forces for Progress.

With this edition of the report, we continue our work. We offer new insights by combining research findings, statistical evidence, successful cases and testimonies from people whose voices are rarely heard. We also highlight solutions and actions that we find critical for improving hygiene and health standards across the globe and for every part of life’s course. Our ambition is to inspire and invite more actors into the dialogue, partnership and in finding sustainable solutions going forward.

In the Sustainable Development Goal era, it is essential to work together and we are brought together by our belief that we can leverage each other’s strengths. Together and individually we will put the insights and solutions of this report to use in public awareness campaigning, policy advocacy, and our community work.

You can read more about our work at www.essity.com and www.wsscc.org