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Webinar Discusses the Use of Monitoring Data in WASH Sector Decision-Making

Thursday, June 20, 2019
Thanks to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as other smaller-scale initiatives throughout the world focused on improving access to water and sanitation, vast...
Keywords:
data institutional strengthening governance capacity building service provision utilities

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Water Security in an Uncertain Future: Enhancing Water Resources Management and Planning by Reducing Climate- and Weather-Related Risks

Thursday, June 6, 2019
This blog was first published in ClimateLinks.
Keywords:
climate adaptation water resources management (WRM) water security disaster risk reduction green infrastructure resilience

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Finance for the Future: How Fintech Can Help African Governments Leverage Public Resources for More Inclusive WASH

Tuesday, May 28, 2019
The finance gap remains a critical barrier to achieving universal sanitation and hygiene coverage across Africa. In recognition of this challenge, African countries recently...
Keywords:
finance innovation emerging technology private sector social inclusion World Bank WALIS utilities

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Prioritizing Women’s Role in Advancing Water and Sanitation

Thursday, May 16, 2019
The month of March marked both World Water Day 2019 and Women’s History Month in the United States. This was a time for USAID and Gap Inc.’s Women and Water Alliance (W+W...
Keywords:
economic development gender public-private partnerships women and girls

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Focusing on Country Dialogues at the AfricaSan5 Conference

Friday, May 10, 2019
Around the world, only 71 percent of people use safely managed drinking water and only 39 percent use safely managed sanitation services. In sub-Saharan Africa, those numbers...
Keywords:
conferences capacity building governance institutional strengthening monitoring and evaluation WASH

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USAID Releases New Standard Indicators for Water and Sanitation

Friday, May 3, 2019
Success in the water and sanitation sector cannot be defined by only the number of boreholes drilled or toilets built. In addition to helping communities gain first-time...
Keywords:
finance Global Water Strategy governance indicators

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Facilitating Relationships Between Private Sanitation Service Providers and Commercial Banks in Senegal

Friday, April 26, 2019
A USAID WASH-FIN (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene-Finance) survey of 105 private sanitation service providers (SSPs) across Senegal found that they face challenges typical of...
Keywords:
finance market-based sanitation private sector sanitation service delivery creditworthiness

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Webinar Discusses Efforts to Bring Citywide Inclusive Sanitation to Ethiopia

Monday, April 22, 2019
On March 28, USAID’s Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) hosted a webinar, "Designing for Sustainability: Bringing Citywide Inclusive Sanitation to Ethiopia...
Keywords:
infrastructure sanitation service delivery systems thinking World Bank urban sanitation

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Webinar Explores How Financing Facilities Can Close the Finance Gap for Universal Access

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
USAID's WASH-FIN recently held a webinar on financing facillities to provide universal WASH access.
Keywords:
finance private sector public-private partnerships service provision WASH-FIN

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Customer Behavior in the Uganda Sanitation Marketplace

Monday, April 8, 2019
Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part blog series on findings from a national Rural Household and Institutional Survey in Uganda. Part 1 focuses on the consumer research...
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market-based sanitation private sector sanitation

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Exploring the Intersection of Women and Improved Water Access

Tuesday, April 2, 2019
With International Women’s Day celebrated March 8 and World Water Day on March 22, it is a month for big ideas—about women and about water. On March 21, the intersection of...
Keywords:
gender health care facilities International Women's Day private sector women and girls World Water Day social inclusion

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Globalwaters.org Launches New Interagency Stories Page

Thursday, March 21, 2019
In celebration of World Water Day 2019, Globalwaters.org is debuting a new collection of interagency stories. Learn more.
Keywords:
Global Water Strategy sanitation transboundary governance finance drinking water water resources management (WRM)

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The Business of Waste: Professionalizing Septic Tank and Latrine Desludging in Indonesia

Friday, March 15, 2019
The USAID–funded Indonesia Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Penyehatan Lingkungan untuk Semua (IUWASH PLUS) project recently launched the Regular Desludging Services or...
Keywords:
fecal sludge management market-based sanitation private sector IUWASH PLUS

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A New Approach to Address Urban Sanitation Shortcomings

Thursday, March 7, 2019
In December, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies joined with USAID implementer AECOM to host a panel discussion on Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS), a...
Keywords:
network analysis social inclusion systems thinking urban sanitation

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Safeguarding Water in the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’

Wednesday, February 27, 2019
The USAID ATLAS project is conducting a rigorous basin-wide climate vulnerability assessment of the Mara River.
Keywords:
agriculture biodiversity deforestation ecosystems rivers transboundary water users association wetlands

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