• Women + Water CARE Fact Sheet
    Fact Sheet
    Spearheaded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Gap Inc., a global apparel retailer that sources products from about 800 facilities in 30 countries, the Women + Water Alliance (W+W Alliance) is a public-private pa
  • Women + Water ISC Fact Sheet
    Fact Sheet
    Access to clean water is essential for community health and well-being, yet in India more than half the population faces high to extremely high water stress.
  • Women Mobilize to Promote Cheaper, Cleaner Drinking Water in India
    Blog
    In late 2017, USAID Administrator Mark Green visited a water kiosk in Hyderabad, India, to understand how a public-private partnership model of water service delivery makes safe drinking water available and affordable for people who generally have
  • Prioritizing Women’s Role in Advancing Water and Sanitation
    Blog
    The month of March marked both World Water Day 2019 and Women’s History Month in the United States.
  • Infographic: Women + Water Alliance
    Infographic
    Women+Water is a Global Development Alliance between USAID and Gap Inc.
  • Financing Mechanisms for Wastewater and Sanitation
    Report
    This publication is a guide for government and city planners to identify financing mechanisms as they develop their own wastewater and sanitation projects.
  • Smart Sanitation City: The Sanitation Economy at City Scale
    Report
    This thought piece from the Toilet Board Coalition, in partnership with the Pune Municipal Corporation & Pune Smart City, India, discusses Smart Sanitation Cities and the opportunity they pre
  • India Fire-D Project Ex-Post Evaluation Brief
    Brief
    India’s rapid urbanization has resulted in overburdened infrastructure as the demand for safe water and sanitation increases. This problem, which disproportionately affects the urban poor, demands a sustainable solution.
  • India Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion–Debt and Infrastructure (FIRE-D Ex-Post Evaluation)
    Evaluation
    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.
  • Examining USAID Efforts to Strengthen India’s Urban Water and Sanitation Sector Governance and Finance
    Blog
    From 1994–2011, USAID’s Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion–Debt and Infrastructure (FIRE-D) activity partnered with India’s central, state, and municipal governments to provide technical assistance to 16 Indian states. USAID published an independent ex-post evaluation that followed up on six states and cities, seven years after FIRE-D ended to look at the project's long-term impact, to understand how urban water and sanitation services have changed, and to what extent policies, practices, and financing mechanisms introduced through FIRE-D have been sustained. This is the fourth in a series of ex-post evaluations of past USAID water and sanitation projects.