This blog post discusses key findings and lessons learned from an evaluation of the long-term sustainability of selected components from the USAID-funded Environmental Services Program (ESP) in Indonesia. The program was implemented from 2004–2010 and included capacity-building efforts to improve financing and management of Indonesian municipal water utilities.
The USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) is holding a webinar on March 28 from 10–11 a.m. EDT to discuss efforts to improve sanitation infrastructure and service delivery in the rapidly growing town of Debre Birhan in Ethiopia.
In 2018, the Globalwaters.org team celebrated the one-year anniversary of the site’s public launch, we took this opportunity to pause and reflect and solicit your thoughts about the site with a voluntary survey. And you responded—here are the results.
Rapid urbanization in resource-constrained countries like India places massive pressures on infrastructure, and long-term solutions are needed to meet growing safe water and sanitation (WatSan) demand. USAID has invested in urban WatSan activities across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East that aim to address these needs, but there is seldom opportunity to validate whether its approaches yielded sustainable outcomes.
How sustainable are outcomes several years after water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects have closed? In this webinar, Leslie Greene Hodel will present findings from an evaluation of the USAID/India Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion–Debt and Infrastructure (FIRE-D) project, implemented by TCG International between 1994 and 2011
Backyard Cooperation Leads to Wastewater Treatment
With help from USAID, households in the Dominican Republic are turning to small-scale constructed wetlands to improve wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal.
Photo Essay: Global Handwashing Day 2018: Clean Hands—A Recipe for Health
October 15 marks the 10th annual Global Handwashing Day. This photo essay features USAID activities around the globe to raise awareness of this simple, yet life-saving, health intervention.
Mobile Communities Seek Fixed Solutions to their Water and Sanitation Challenges
USAID's Lowland WASH activity tackles the challenging water and sanitation conditions of Ethiopia's pastoral communities and seeks solutions through close partnerships, private-sector innovation, adaptation, and learning.
This executive summary presents the key findings from an evaluation of the USAID-funded Millennium Water Alliance program in Ethiopia. It examines the long-term outcomes related to rural water point construction, rehabilitation, and management, as well as participatory sanitation and hygiene education and construction activities. The summary is in Amharic.
This blog post discusses some of the key findings and lessons learned from an evaluation of the long-term sustainability of outcomes related to the USAID-funded Millennium Water Alliance program in Ethiopia, implemented between 2004–2009 in 24 rural districts.
