Millions of people in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries still lack access to basic water services. In fact, as of 2020, the majority of people without basic water services lived in rural areas.
Isoko y’Ubuzima (“source of life”), a 5-year USAID-funded activity, provides technical and financial support for the Government of Rwanda through three strategic objectives:
USAID’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) program in Zambia provided strategic support to select Commercial Water Utilities (CUs) and the Ministry of Water Development and Sanitat
The goal of USAID Anka Jiko is to improve the quality and sustainability of rural water and sanitation services by building the capacity of key stakeholders in rural Malian communities to construct, maintain, and sustainably manage safe and reliab
USAID’s Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems Activity (SWSSA) is a five-year, $32 million activity that aims to increase and sustain access to clean water and safe sanitation services for communities in the North and South Kiv
In 2017, USAID’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) program in Nepal began with a goal to support closing the WASH services access gap with technical assistance to expand and insti
This paper presents three case studies from the USAID Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) Program, which illustrate different approaches to leveraging commercial finance in the water