Burkina Faso and Niger have some of the lowest rates of access to safe water and sanitation in the world.
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- ReportThis report documents the analysis of the Recurrent Monitoring Survey (RMS) 20I8-19 data set collected as part of the impact evaluation of the Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE) initiative.
- Final ReportThe WASHplus project supported healthy households and communities by creating and delivering interventions that lead to significant improvements in access, practices, and hea
- ActivityFirmly grounded in proven practices, Breakthrough ACTION works in partnership with governments, civil society, and communities around the world to implement creative and sustainable SBC programming, nurture SBC champions, mainstream n
- ActivityREGIS-ER is a five year project financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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- Fact SheetThe West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Program (WA-WASH), implemented from 2011 to 2017, introduced innovati
- Fact SheetWith increasing rates of population growth and urbanization, infrastructure in African cities, such as water delivery systems and wastewater systems, can be overwhelmed.
- PodcastGlobal Waters Radio recently spoke with water expert and engineer Eric Viala, who shares examples from Africa’s Sahel region to Cambodia about the powerful ways that strengthened water security contributes to environmental sustainability and improves communities’ resilience in the face of natural disasters.
- Fact SheetFollowing repeated large-scale humanitarian emergencies in the Sahel, USAID recognized that continuing to treat these recurrent crises as acute emergencies is extremely costly and does not effectively address their underlying causes.