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Fact Sheet: Angola Community-Managed Water and Sanitation Project

Fact Sheet

USAID’s Community-Managed Water and Sanitation project improves water governance. Through a system of community water management activities, we help ensure affordability of water for consumers and the maintenance of water infrastructures. An...

Keywords:
behavior change community-led total sanitation hygiene community infrastructure sanitation
Nepal Fact Sheet: Suaahara II “Good Nutrition” Program

Fact Sheet

USAID’s Suaahara II “Good Nutrition” Program aims to improve the nutritional status of women and children in 40 underserved rural districts of Nepal. This will be achieved through a multi-sector partnership with the Government of Nepal, the private...

Keywords:
food hygiene gender maternal and child health nutrition
Evaluation of USAID/India development objective (DO) 3: Assessing the Relevance...

Evaluation

Background The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) five-year (2012-2017) Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) reflects the transformation of the USAID-India relationship from a traditional donor-recipient to a peer-to-peer...

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Evaluation public-private partnerships
Afghanistan Water and Development Country Plan

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Executive Summary In a very difficult environment, Afghanistan is making steady progress in improving access to improved drinking water and sanitation. With strong donor support, the country is close to meeting its Millennium Development Goal (MDG)...

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priority countries
West Bank & Gaza Water and Development Country Plan

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Executive Summary There are insufficient quantities of water available in the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) to meet Palestinians’ needs. At the household level in 2014 (most recent calculations), Palestinians in the West Bank received on average about...

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priority countries

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Jordan Water and Development Country Plan

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Executive Summary Jordan is facing a growing water crisis. Jordan’s water challenge begins with natural aridity that is forecasted to get worse in the coming decades. Its per capita share of renewable water resources is less than 100 cubic meters...

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priority countries

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Lebanon Water and Development Country Plan

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Executive Summary Despite relatively abundant natural water resources, Lebanon faces a significant water deficit exacerbated by population growth, random urban expansion, climate change, and influx of Syrian refugees. A history of regional conflict...

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priority countries

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Webinar Addresses Underemphasized Health Risks Children Face in Their...

Blog

For decades, implementers have applied water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and nutrition-based interventions—alone and in a variety of combinations—to address diarrheal disease and stunting among infants and young children (IYC) in low- and middle...

Keywords:
behavior change food hygiene maternal and child health nutrition WASH webinar
Water Currents: WASH & Human-Centered Design

Water Currents

According to USAID Global Health Bureau’s Engage HCD and others, human-centered design is a way of thinking and problem solving that places the people you're trying to serve and other important stakeholders at the center of the design and...

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From a Trickle to a Stream: Unleashing the Power of Women’s Voices for Tanzania’s Water...

Blog

For Tanzanian women, water has the tremendous potential to transform lives. Women in Tanzania have a keen interest in water’s thoughtful management for their homes and farms, and they bear the burden of water retrieval. However, they are not yet...

Keywords:
capacity building gender governance water resources management women and girls
Webinar: Toward a Hygienic Environment for Infants and Young...

Webinar

On April 5, USAID held a webinar to discuss findings from the recent report from the USAID-funded WASHPaLS Project, "Toward a Hygienic Environment for Infants and Young Children: A Review of the Literature." The webinar describes the findings of...

Keywords:
behavior change hygiene maternal and child health nutrition WASH webinar

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Working Together to Shape the Future Direction of Water Programming

Blog

A more detailed version of this blog is available on Medium. In November 2017, the U.S. Government (USG) released the first-ever whole of government Global Water Strategy, the culmination of 17 government agencies working together to address the...

Keywords:
Global Water Strategy

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Safeguarding Sustainability: At the Launch of a Groundbreaking New Effort in the Mara River Basin, Cooperation is...

Blog

This blog originally appeared on the Sustainable Water Partnership website. In the Maasai language, “Mara” means “spotted,” and as you look out over the plains of the Mara River Basin, you can see how the region got its name. The savanna is dotted...

Keywords:
ecosystem transboundary river basin management water resources management
Water Currents: Water and Data

Water Currents

In this issue we focus on how the "data revolution" is changing the water and sanitation sector. An expanding array of local and global data sources are providing a more precise view of water access gaps and disparities. Tracking water and...

Keywords:
water supply sector performance data water resources data Water Point Data
Kenya Shows How New Water Strategy Will Lead to Self-Reliance

Podcast

The following exerpt is from a Global Waters article by Jim Peters, Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Education and Environment and Acting Global Water Coordinator. After the U.S. Government Global Water Strategy ...

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Global Water Strategy
World Water Day 2018: Unlocking Nature’s Potential to Create a Water-Secure World

Photo Essay

On a planet that is growing warmer and more crowded, freshwater resources and the ecosystems that depend on them are being strained as never before. This year, as the world prepares to celebrate World Water Day on March 22, attention is being...

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World Water Day
RESILIM: Addressing the Water Shortage Puzzle in Southern Africa

Global Waters Article

River basins in southern Africa, like river basins around the world, are under threat from increasing water use and shifting rainfall patterns, which are exaggerating flood and drought cycles and degrading water quality. It is hard enough for one...

Keywords:
governance transboundary water resources management
Resilience in the Limpopo Basin Program (RESILIM)

Fact Sheet

CHALLENGE People living in the Limpopo River Basin in Southern Africa face water shortages, increased floods, and declines in crop productivity as climate change further stresses an already water limited region. Trans-boundary cooperation and action...

Keywords:
climate change Climate Change Adaptation ecosystem services environmental flows resilience

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A Win-Win Approach to Biodiversity

Global Waters Article

Uganda’s Budongo-Bugoma Forest Corridor, situated in the north of the Albertine Rift, is considered to be one the most biodiverse regions of Africa, well known for its chimpanzee population. However, this biodiversity hotspot is under pressure from...

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climate conflict deforestation water resources management water security
Live Stream: U.S. Global Water Strategy Workshop

Workshop

Reaching a Water Secure World: U.S. Global Water Strategy Workshop March 13, 2018 | U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C. In celebration of World Water Day, the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)...

Keywords:
Global Water Strategy

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