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

Self-Sustaining WASH

Sambandh

Sambandh combines an integrated watershed approach to nutritional and food security with WASH strategies in an effort to address both the direct and underlying causes of malnutrition in India.

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Chujio Water Filters

Chujio Ceramics Limited

Chujio Ceramics is a social enterprise manufacturing household ceramic filters which provide safe drinking water to improve family health.

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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

Community and Schools Integrated WASH Improvement Project

Rural Health Care Foundation Uganda (RHCF)

Rural Health Care Foundation Uganda (RHCF) works to improve WASH in rural Uganda by providing clean and safe water.

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Pit-Emptying Services in Urban Slums

Forever Sanitation

Forever Sanitation uses unique equipment to empty latrine pits in low-income areas that are not generally accessible by larger waste removal services or where other methods of waste removal are not affordable.

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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

Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Promotion

Jerusalem Children and Community Development Organization (JeCCDO)

JeCCDO creates access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene services by triggering behavior change in communities in rural Ethiopia.

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Usafi wa Mazingira Tanzania (UMATA)

Peoples' Development Forum (PDF)

Usafi wa Mazingira Tanzania (UMATA) is part of the National Sanitation Campaign designed and implemented by the Government of Tanzania. It seeks to increase access to and use of improved sanitation facilities and with changed sanitation behaviors at scale.

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WASH Result for Development

Taking Learning Beyond the Hotel Conference Room