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Strategic Objective 4: Strengthen Water Sector Governance, Financing, and Institutions

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MCC CEO Sean Cairncross speaks to a group of women in the village of Margou, Niger. Photo credit: MCC

Strengthening the Agriculture Sector in Niger

March 2020 Millennium Challenge Corporation

WADI supports local communities to grow native seedlings utilizing water conserving technologies and sustainable nursery management practices. Photo credit: USDA

Engaging Communities Through Landscape-Level Water Conservation in Jordan

March 2020 U.S. Department of Agriculture

The NIFA project team visited Israel for a week in March 2019 to exchange ideas and understanding about how Israel has managed its water resources. Photo credit: USDA

USDA Supports Collaboration and Exchange to Improve Water Resource Management

March 2020 U.S. Department of Agriculture

A U.S. water data expert sent to Liberia and Uganda shares his information technology solutions with audiences across Africa via CNBC.

Drawing on U.S. Government and Civil Service Expertise to Improve Water Resources Management Practices

March 2020 U.S. Department of State

Dam safety training participants pose at the Paranoa Dam spillway gates in Brazil. Photo credit: USGS

Reclamation Provides Dam Safety and Emergency Management Training to Brazil

March 2020 U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation

A family looks on as technician Dennis Koroma maps water pipes in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Waterborne diseases are a pressing problem, exacerbated by poor infrastructure, including broken pipes. MCC’s investments support the Government of Sierra Leone in its efforts to strengthen Freetown’s water utility.

Using Policy Reform to Build Capacity in Sierra Leone’s Water Sector

March 2020 Millennium Challenge Corporation

Tisza River USACE expert

Strengthening Collaboration in the Transboundary Tisza River Basin, Eastern Europe

November 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Kenya Water Tower

Degradation of Kenya’s Water Towers Contribute to Growing Water Crisis

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Geological Survey staff demonstrate the use of a Tromino, a passive seismic tool used for stratigraphy and bedrock mapping, to local water officials. Credit: USGS

Developing Groundwater Maps for Arid Regions of Kenya and Ethiopia

March 2019 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Forest Service technical specialists Dale Higgins (right) and Aric Johnson (second from right) investigate a well alongside community representatives in northern Tanzania as part of an effort to improve hydrological and rangeland management alongside the NGO Tanzania People & Wildlife. Credit: John Kerkering

Tanzania Balances Competing Demands for Scarce Water Resources

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

Staff from a Kamwenge District health center. Credit: Maggie Person

Short-Term Interventions Address Health Care Facility Deficiencies

March 2019 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. Forestry Service Aquatic Expert Mike Owen discusses grazing and stream bank stability, and highlights the different ways local environmental conditions can impact the area’s watersheds. Credit: NGO FORZA

Ukraine Increases Efforts to Monitor Forest and Water Health

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

Gullies are caused by concentrated rainfall runoff discharged onto sensitive highly-erosive sandy soils. The primary imperative to control gully erosion is to avoid the concentration of runoff, chiefly through small-scale storage and by encouraging infiltration into the sandy soils. Credit: Michael J. Furniss/U.S. Forest Service Office of International Programs

Republic of the Congo Tackles Soil Erosion Crisis

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

Bureau of Reclamation and National Water Agency Staff viewing the EBV-2 pumping station on the PISF Project in Brazil. Credit: Bureau of Reclamation

An Interagency Collaboration Benefits Water Systems at Home and Abroad

March 2019 U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation

Tahani Al Masaed, Sabha Community Nursery Staff, fills containers with growing media mix to prepare for the sowing season. The containers are specialized to promote root development that will help the seedling survive harsh conditions in the Badia. Credit: USAID/Jordan

Engaging Communities Through Landscape-Level Water Conservation in Jordan

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

Middle East Regional Irrigation Management Information Systems Project project participants at the almond subsurface drip irrigation experiment at Iksal, Israel, led by Dr. Fathi Abdel-Hadi (second from left). Credit: Steven R. Evett/USDA ARS

Teaming Up to Improve Efficiency of Water Use for Crop Production

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

In Honduras, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) provided hands-on training to Agro-Food Information Service (INFOAGRO) analysts to better visualize, utilize, and incorporate satellite imagery and remote-sensing data in INFOAGRO’s market analyses, technical reports, and other decision-support materials. Credit: Justin Jenkins/USDA/FAS

Harnessing the Power of the Web for Agricultural and Climate Data Analyses

March 2019 U.S. Department of Agriculture

Ra’eda is one of 30 women who received training to become plumbers through a project in MCC’s Jordan Compact that offered women tools and resources to pursue real job opportunities in plumbing—empowering them to contribute to their household income, and at the same time, serve their communities. Credit: MCC

New Opportunities for Growth and Stability in Jordan’s Water Sector

March 2019 Millennium Challenge Corporation

Under the Zambia Compact’s Innovation Grants Program, a grantee built 30 water kiosks and 1,800 water connections in Jack Compound. MCC’s investment in Zambia addresses clean water and sanitation and good health—two of the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals that MCC is committed to support. Credit: MCC

Strengthening Zambia’s WASH Infrastructure Improves Health, Changes Lives

March 2019 Millennium Challenge Corporation

Water now comes directly to this boy’s home thanks to the Social Access Fund through MCC’s Cabo Verde Compact. Credit: MCC

Institutional Reforms Expand Water Access in Cabo Verde

March 2019 Millennium Challenge Corporation

Panama City municipal workers install trash collection boom on an urban river in Panama City, Panama. Credit: Natasha Sadoff/Battelle

Community-Based Efforts to Contain Trash and Protect Waterways

March 2019 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

This architectural rendering shows some of the proposed components of the master plan, such as a combined recreation and flood-routing area. Credit: EstudioOCA

Using Green Infrastructure to Mitigate Urban Flood Risk

March 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A TEPAC measures free chlorine residual in water sample from a rural drinking water system. Credit: CDC Foundation

Deploying WASH Technicians to Improve WASH Services

March 2019 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The camps in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, experience flooding associated with monsoon season. Credit: Anu Rajasingham/CDC

Improved Chlorination Mitigates Disease Outbreaks

March 2019 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. water expert Dr. Mel Laituri participates in a radio interview in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: Chris Rich, USWP

Hydrologists Without Borders

March 2019 U.S. Department of State