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

Factory Worker WASH Program

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM)

Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM) supports WASH infrastructure and education for garment factory workers in their families at the factory, community, school, and household levels.

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Water Facility Program

Community Based Health Care Council (CBHCC)

CBHCC designs and implements a variety of rural WASH interventions in close collaboration with the community to improve access to clean water and sanitation and promote community ownership and management of the facilities.

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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

Financial INclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH)

WASTE

Financial INclusion Improves Sanitation and Health (FINISH) uses a mix of microloans and strategic partnerships with the government and the private sector to create demand for a sanitation market and increase access to capital to pay for services

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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

Maji Usafi wa Mazingira na Afya (MA.U.A)

IDYDC

IDYDC improves hygiene and sanitation services in rural and peri-urban areas of the Iringa region of Tanzania.

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Pad for Pad

Eco Femme

Pad For Pad is a menstrual health education and washable cloth pad production and distribution program for adolescent girls from economically disadvantaged backgrounds in India.

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WASH Result for Development

Taking Learning Beyond the Hotel Conference Room