In 2013, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) commissioned the Sanitation, Hygiene Applied Research for Equity (SHARE) consortium to design and implement a process evaluation of Phase I (2011-2015) of the Government of Tanzania’s (GoT) National Sanitation Campaign (NSC). By reviewing the NSC’s mid-term achievements – at the household and school levels – and rigorously assessing its implementation, the process evaluation sought to shed light on whether the NSC was likely to catalyse the changes anticipated and to identify potential steps that could increase the efficiency of the NSC.

This policy brief summarises the process evaluation, highlights its key findings and proposes several recommendations for maximising the NSC’s effectiveness.