To address the complex challenge of sustaining basic water and sanitation services in low income settings, international organizations and local and national government entities are beginning to design and implement interventions explicitly aimed
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- BlogOn May 20, 2020, USAID’s Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) hosted a webinar, “Strengthening WASH Networks
- VideoSocial network analysis is a tool that Sustainable WASH Systems partners use to better understand the actors in a WASH System, their relationship to each other, and the factors that affect their interactions.
- VideoWhave, a partner of Sustainable WASH Systems, is cultivating a sustainable model for rural water service delivery as a regional service provider in Uganda.
- BriefCollaborative approaches bring stakeholders together to overcome complex challenges that cannot be solved alone.
- BriefThe term “collective action” is becoming more prevalent in the international water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector.
- Research/StudyThe international development sector is increasingly implementing collaborative approaches that facilitate a range of sectoral-level stakeholders to jointly address complex problems facing sustainable public service delivery, for which guidance do
- Literature ReviewEndemic issues of sustainability in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector have led to the rapid expansion of ‘system approaches’ for assessing the multitude of interconnected factors that affect WASH outcomes.
- BriefThis research brief presents findings from a comparative analysis by University of Colorado Boulder of the conditions that influence whether rural water users pay for preventive maintenance of water services. Whave, a part
- Case StudiesAt University of North Carolina’s 2018 Water and Health Conference, University of Colorado Boulder's Kimberly Pugel presented two case studies to highlight a method SWS is using to visualize the priorities of each actor within a network by co