WASH

Overcoming barriers to implementing new ideas in water, sanitation and hygiene.

Through the WASH Impact Network, in-country innovators have identified the challenges they face in implementing new ideas, and shared insights into what can be done to overcome those challenges.

For program implementers:

Best practices from local WASH innovators that enable learning and flexibility at an organizational level.

For partners:

Considerations for forming strong partnerships with local WASH innovators that support them in building robust teams and systems to enable learning and flexibility.

For funders:

Considerations for providing the right financial resources and collaborative relationships that enable local WASH innovators to learn and adapt.

The WASH Impact Network Approach

Defining Barriers

Speak with in-country organizations to understand their needs

Gathering Insights

Take a snapshot of organizations to understand their current approach to innovation and learning

Sharing Solutions

Connect organizations to new ideas and learn about the barriers to taking learning into action

Tracking Progress

Follow up with organizations to see whether what they have learned is being implemented

Organizations in the Network work across the following sectors:

Water

Nearly 900 million people collect water from a contaminated source, which is often some distance from their home, a journey which may take 4 to 6 hours every day. Our programs are having a profound effect on health, education, and livelihoods.

Water Programs

Bio-Centre Initiative

Umande Trust

The Bio-Centre Initiative helps create open-defecation free urban neighborhoods through offering a menu of cashless payments, sanitation financing, and making sanitation facilities affordable.

748 views

Africa Water Bank

Africa Water Bank (AWB)

Africa Water Bank designs and installs innovative rainwater harvesting systems to supply clean drinking water to rural communities in Kenya.

812 views

Sanitation

More than 2.6 billion people around the world lack basic sanitation facilities. Our programs are working to increase community access to sanitation, such as biodigester toilets, and reduce a major cause of diseases in children.

Sanitation Programs

Sustainable Sanitation

Society for Community Organization and Peoples Education (SCOPE)

The Sustainable Sanitation program uses ECOSAN toilets which are responsive to the needs and contexts of those living in high water table areas of India and also contribute environmentally-friendly agricultural products for farming.

464 views

Integrated Water Management

Biome Environmental Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and the Biome Environmental Trust

Biome develops, designs and implements ecologically and socially sustainable land-use change solutions. Biome's approach is to work with communities and relevant institutions to develop new ideas to jointly solve problems.

932 views

Hygiene

Seventy percent of diarrheal cases are due to contaminated food, the consequence of preparing food with unwashed hands. Our programs are working to increase hygiene practices and menstrual hygiene management to improve health outcomes.

Hygiene Programs

School Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Promotion

Oromo Self Reliance Association (OSRA)

OSRA targets school communities to increase access to WASH software such as education about hygiene combined with hardware such as sanitation facilities at school. Focusing on the two together reinforces change.

854 views

Community Water Supply and Sanitation Program (CWSSP)

Tanzania Association of Environmental Engineers (TAEEs)

The Community Water Supply and Sanitation Program incorporates community-centric planning and governance to raise the profile of water supply systems in three targets communities in Mtwara district.