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Turning Challenges into Opportunities: Equity, Inclusion and Sustainability in WASH
Aligned with the WASH Sustainability Charter, this webinar presented concrete and practical strategies and tools that can be used in WASH programming to ensure inclusivity across marginalized populations, including the poorest of the poor, orphans and vulnerable children, and women. This webinar highlighted several key issues, including: Empowering the Financially Marginalized: The Poorest of the [...]
Leading with Sustainability: Laying the Groundwork for Lasting Services
When is there right time to start thinking about sustainability? Starting the sustainability conversation from the design and proposal phase will provide the platform needed for appropriate funding and execution of sustainable WASH programs. On December 15, 2011 Global Water Challenge, WASH Advocacy Initiative and the WASHplus Project brought together leading experts for an hour-long [...]
Ensuring Ongoing Quality
While water access is the most commonly discussed metric for WASH projects, water quality is also critical in achieving key health outcomes. Most organizations will test the water quality of new water supplies at least one time during the project. However, after the conclusion of the project, water quality is rarely ensured. Few organizations make [...]
Monitoring and Measuring Success
Sustainability can often seem to be difficult to define, yet finding ways to measure sustainability is crucial to ensuring that projects continue to serve communities years later. Please feel free to discuss either/both of the the questions in your response. a. What aspects of the WASH intervention do you measure or monitor and how does [...]
Financing
Sustainability is intricately linked with the ability of users to fund the ongoing costs of an intervention. Feel free to answer any/all of the questions below: a. Does your organization provide 100% subsidies for WASH infrastructure? Do you think this makes interventions more or less sustainable and why? b. If you know that in a [...]
Operations & Maintenance and Post-Construction Support
Once the supported intervention has ended, the proving of sustainability mechanisms begins. Feel free to answer any/all of the question below in your responses. a. How do you plan for maintenance after a system is constructed and inaugurated? b. How do you promote or support village level operations and maintenance? c. Do you work with [...]
Planning and Design of WASH Interventions
Planning before a program can make a tremendous difference on what happens after the program. Please feel free to answer any/all of the questions below in your response: a. What factors do you consider to be important when planning and designing a WASH program to make it sustainable? b. Who do you feel it is [...]
