Sylvia Cabus, the Senior Gender Advisor for USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, recently chatted with Global Waters Radio about the connection between gender and water.
On June 14, representatives from USAID projects in East Africa met at the Wilson Center to discuss the Planning for Resilience in East Africa through Policy, Adaptation, Research and Economic Development (PREPARED) project, which worked to strengthen the East African institutions that provide sustainable access to clean water and sanitation services.
Water security is a major input to achieving economic growth in the rapidly growing Philippines. While nationally there is an abundance of resources, water scarcity is increasingly felt at the local level. Water quality is an increasingly serious problem, with degraded water quality affecting human and ecosystem health.
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The Water and Development Alliance (WADA) showcase at Stockholm World Water Week provided an opportunity for The Coca-Cola Company, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Gap, Ipsos, Global Water Challenge (GWC) and partners to highlight their efforts to empower women globally through water.
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Water Security Implementation is the fifith in a series of six toolkits from the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP). It provides a brief introduction to water security, as well as a detailed walkthrough of SWP’s five-step Water Security Improvement (WSI) process. The success of that process depends on the implementation of activities or measures defined through collaborative planning and decision-making with the purpose of addressing and mitigating priority water risks now and in the future.
Funding Water Security is the fourth in a series of six toolkits from the Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP). This series of toolkits presents an effective and efficient process to address water risks, including long-term water stresses that constrain social and economic development and sudden shocks that can quickly jeopardize the health and livelihoods of vulnerable populations.
This toolkit is designed to improve stakeholder capacity to investigate and evaluate the current and possible sources for funding water security activities in a geographic focus area.
The Water and Development Alliance (WADA) is a collaboration between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Coca-Cola Company and its Foundations and, managed by the Global Environment & Technology Foundation, to promote improved water management and expand clean water access to help build sustainable communities in the developing world.
