This fact sheet provides context for the Urban Resilience by Building Partnerships and Applying New evidence in WASH (URBAN WASH) project, a five-year (2021–2026) project that will generate evidence to promote impactful, sustainable, equitable and
Climate change is a global crisis. As temperatures and sea levels rise, people around the world are increasingly seeing heatwaves, droughts, floods, cyclones, and wildfires upend their lives.
In Iraq, rising temperatures, reduced rainfall, and dropping water levels are all increasing the risk of drought and desertification. Growing water scarcity across the country threatens the health and livelihoods of at least seven million Iraqis.
A hallmark of USAID's approach to water resource management is the use of science and data to inform local governments’ policies and plans to manage critical watersheds and develop water sources.
In the Philippines, families from Sagay City residing within Sagay Marine Reserve benefitted from an innovative financing scheme for household sanitation piloted by USAID through Safe Water, to protect the marine reserve, an ecosystem that provide