The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability #2 project (USAID/WASHPaLS #2) is a five-year (2021-2026) activity of USAID’s Bureau for Global Health.

WASHPaLS #2 builds on WASHPaLS (2016-2022) and aims to strengthen USAID’s WASH programming at country-level and enhance global learning and adoption of the evidence-based programmatic foundations needed to achieve  sustainable development goal (SDG) 6.2, particularly in rural areas. The objective of WASHPaLS #2 is to generate and facilitate WASH sector research and learning that will contribute to an improved understanding of area-wide sanitation, which entails effective combinations of systems strengthening and contextually tailored service delivery and behavior change-focused interventions across the entire sanitation service chain. The project:

1. Conducts implementation research on key sanitation and hygiene interventions, specifically area-wide sanitation (AWS), market-based sanitation (MBS), and social behavior change (SBC) approaches;
2. Conducts a sanitation and hygiene sector workforce capacity needs assessment;
3. Implements a small grants program to support program-wide research efforts;
4. Supports USAID’s participation in strategic partnerships, and;
5. Provides short-term technical assistance to USAID operating units.

Please find a fact sheet here.