The 22nd AGUASAN workshop dealt with the topic "More Benefits for Households from Water and Sanitation through Intersectoral Synergies" and explored the potential of a "Cross-Sector Approach", linking water and sanitation with health and income generation interventions, for having greater impact on the people’s livelihoods and on poverty alleviation. From the angle of vision of a water and sanitation (W&S) sector professional, the cross-sector approach (CSA) was understood as going beyond one’s core business and looking farther behind sector boundaries in search for genuinely joining forces with other sectors and realizing multiple benefits to households and increased impact from synergetic and combined approaches.

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