“Water and food security” is designated as one of five strategic priorities by Kenya’s Kitui County Government. Providing sustainable drinking water services in the area remains challenging despite progress on increasing access to water infrastructure.
SWS is holding a webinar on August 23 to present recent learning about preventive maintenance, and how it can help local governments, communities, and the local private sector to shift the paradigm from paying pump mechanics to fix broken pumps to paying them to keep water services running.
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.
This webinar presents key findings from an evaluation of the long-term sustainability of outcomes related to the USAID-funded Millennium Water Alliance program in Ethiopia (MWA-EP), implemented in 24 rural districts from 2004–2009.
Through the innovative SWS Learning Partnership, USAID seeks to learn how to improve the sustainability of WASH services by using systems approaches.
With 2.1 billion people – mostly in rural areas – lacking safely managed drinking water and reported low rural water supply functionality rates, the Sustainable Development Goals pose a triple challenge: to reach unserved mostly rural population groups, to raise service levels, and to sustain existing and future services.
In Madagascar, more than 11 million people do not have access to safe water and 88 percent of the people don’t have access to improved sanitation facilities. For leaders, incomplete data on access to safe water and sanitation can act as a barrier to improving public health services.
Since 2000, USAID has provided more than $700 million to strengthen the water sector in Jordan.
USAID/Jordan published this video to help mark World Water Day 2017 and show how water treatment efforts in Jordan are contributing to greater local water security and improving quality of life. In the video description, USAID/Jordan expresses gratitude to the "water heroes" working in the water sector who are working hard to deliver clean water to homes in Jordan.
