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Non-profit Organizations:
The Water Project
The Water Project is currently focused on work in
communities throughout Burkina Faso, Kenya,
Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Uganda. We
have also previously funded projects in Cameroon,
Haiti, and India
Current projects:
Burkina Faso: We're working with our partner in the field
to repair many of the broken well pumps in the area. This
growing program is having a huge impact in the
communities it touches.
Project
Link:
http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/burkinafaso/well-rehab-in-burkina-faso-9006
Vision: The Water Project, Inc. is a non-profit
organization unlocking human potential by providing
sustainable water projects to communities in subSaharan Africa who suffer needlessly from a lack of
access to clean water and proper sanitation.
For over seven years, we have been helping
communities gain access to clean, safe water by
providing training, expertise and financial support for
water project construction through our staff and
implementing partners.
What we’re doing:
In sub-Saharan Africa, we help communities dig wells,
construct small sub-surface dams, catch the rain,
protect fresh-water springs, filter surface water, and
maintain proper sanitation and hygiene practices.
We equip, train and fund local NGOs (NonGovernmental Organizations) and missionaries with
an established in-country presence who can help
provide access to clean water and ensure its
maintenance over time.
We provide a helping hand to the people we serve. It
is our profound conviction that, given the
opportunity, our global neighbors are ready to
innovate and lead themselves out of poverty. We're
humbled to accompany them for a time on their
journey.
Kenya: Clean and safe water is essential for things like a
good education. We're building wells at schools, churches
and community centers in Kenya. You can help restore a
hopeful future for students and entire communities...for
years to come.
Project
Link:
http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/kenya/w
ell-repair-in-kenya-4147
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South Sudan: Remote villages and communities are often
the most ignored. We're working with a local partner in
South Sudan who is committed to helping the forgotten.
We're committed to long-term change. See how that's
happening and then come join us.
Blue Planet Network
Project
Link:
http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/sudan/n
ew-well-in-sudan-244
Mission: exponentially increase the impact of safe
drinking water programs worldwide. As well as connect
the public, funders, and implementers.
Blue Planet Network solves critical unmet sector
challenges to supercharge all organizations and
individuals working to end the global safe drinking
water crisis. These areas of impact are especially
important: Women and girls, health, children and
education, and economic development
Sierra Leone: Years of civil war ravaged the country. Wells
were destroyed while others just broke down. We're
working through our local partners to help repair wells
and restore hope. Former child soldiers help carry out the
work - a story of redemption.
Project
Link:
http://thewaterproject.org/community/projects/sierraleone/well-rehab-sierra-leone-554
Our global collaboration network of 102
organizations working in 27 countries promotes the
adoption of smart ways to create sustainable water
and sanitation programs.
Member water and sanitation programs are managed and
tracked on Blue Planet Network, across organization and
region, from idea through implementation and long-term
impact to improve outcomes.
Blue Planet Network’s nearly $42 million of member
program data is easily accessed to identify and scale up
what works.
Programs and Projects:
Healthy Schools 2011-2012
The project provides water resources, hand washing
stations, and health education to rural schools in
Guatemala in conjunction with the Peace Corps Healthy
Schools project.
Project
Link:
http://peerwater.org/en/apps/356HEALTHY-SCHOOLS-2-11-2-12/show_projects
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Drinking water & sanitation project
communities - Mongallo-Negrowas
for
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Clean Water Project in 3 schools
The project provides integrated drinking water and
sanitation (long-term hygiene education, maintenance
education, watershed reforestation and conservation) to 2
communities: Mongallo & Negrowas.
Project
http://peerwater.org/en/projects/475#summary
Link:
Rainwater harvesting systems at 20 schools and
support for Water & Hygiene Clubs
The project provides reliable sources of clean drinking
water to over 4,059 students and teachers. Three schools
will receive clean water from a well and then uses a solar
powered filtration system to distribute drinking water via
an underground pipe.
Project
http://peerwater.org/en/projects/477#summary
Link:
End Water Poverty
Community development entrepreneurs have been
trained to install rainwater harvesting systems in 20
schools and will sell low cost, high quality rainwater
harvesting units to the surrounding community.
Project
Link:
http://peerwater.org/en/apps/379Rainwater-harvesting-systems-at-2-schools-and-supportfor-ACI-school-based-Water-Hygiene-Clubs/show_projects
Who we are: We’re a global civil society coalition
made up of more than 260 members in 60 countries.
We campaign and advocate to decision makers at all
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levels, using the media and working with other
development organizations to take action to end the
water and sanitation crisis.
commitments to action to get water and
sanitation to the world's poorest countries and
communities
Our Aims:
Make water and sanitation a higher priority for
governments who give aid and for governments in
the poorest countries who can raise the availability of
sanitation and water to millions more people
Strengthen the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA)
partnership so that the poorest communities get
access to sanitation and water
Campaign for better delivery of sanitation and water
through joined up policies with health, education and
nutrition
In 2011, 350,000 people in more than 74 different
countries walked together for six kilometers to
demand an end to the water and sanitation crisis.
This mass global event, the World Walks for
Water, built on the success of the World’s Longest
Toilet Queue, and demanded that politicians in the
North and South keep their promises and step up
their efforts to protect the right to water and
sanitation for all. There have been many positive
outcomes from this, including major public funding
for toilets in Nepal and Burkina Faso.
Our successes:
In 2013, more than
400,000 people joined
the World Walks for Water
and
Sanitation. 2013's
Walks formed a part of the
wider Keep
Your
Promises campaign,
launched in November 2012. As a consequence,
nationally relevant asks combined with local and
international demands focused on calling for
decision makers to honor commitments made at
all levels on ending the water and sanitation crisis.
In 2012, almost 380,000 people across the globe
again joined forces in the World Walks for Water
and Sanitation. This time, in addition to their own
national
asks,
activists
called on
world
leaders
to
attend
the
crucial
Sanitation and Water for All High Level Meeting, in
Washington DC, a month later. Development and
Finance Ministers or their representatives from
over 40 countries attended and made strong
Water Aid
Mission: We work with local partners to help
community’s access safe water and sanitation. And
we use our experience and research to influence
decision-makers to do more to provide these vital
services. We only use practical technologies and
make sure the right skills exist in the community so
they can keep them working long into the future. By
working with local partners we’re able to invest in the
future of local communities so that they can continue
the good work. Yet the sheer scale of the crisis means
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that we can’t solve it alone. So we work with
communities to influence governments and other
service providers to prioritize safe water and
sanitation.
Alongside partners, we gather research and provide
evidence of why water and sanitation are so
important. We then present this information to
decision-makers
–
locally,
nationally
and
internationally – to make sure that our arguments are
heard loud and clear.
Our projects:
Alakamisy is a remote
farming village in the
central
highlands
of
Madagascar. In the past,
the village’s main water
source was a sulfurcontaminated water spring.
We brought safe water,
sanitation and as a result, sickness has reduced and
the villagers are able to stay in education and make
their farming businesses more productive. However,
water was just the beginning of their stories.
No other organization was prepared to work in the
Sindhuli region of Nepal, where the community of
Tosramkhola lived without safe water or sanitation.
The mountainous terrain made it difficult to reach
the community and begin to address the problem.
Older people and children put themselves at risk
every day on the steep hillsides as they collected
water or looked for a private place to go to the toilet.
Many people fell and injured themselves on steep
trails and people defecated close to their homes for
safety, making the area very dirty. Some people were
forbidden from using the water source due to their
caste and had to walk even further away to collect
unsafe water from other sources.
Through Project Cascade, we built a gravity flow
water system that reaches nearly 1,000 people in
Tosramkhola, and constructed new toilets so that
everyone in the village can now access safe water
and sanitation. Because everyone contributed to the
project, all are entitled to use the safe water sources.
We also trained locals to maintain the new facilities
and promote hygiene, ensuring that the project is
sustainable.
The indigenous communities living along the north
Caribbean coast of Nicaragua are largely forgotten
by the rest of the country. Life in this remote region is
dominated by extreme weather patterns. During the
rainy season, tropical storms cause extensive
flooding, often cutting off the only road to and from
the rest of the country. When the rains stop and
drought takes hold, women and children have to haul
buckets of water from rivers or streams two to three
miles from home.
Our Nicaragua program has trained
local communities to build and
maintain safe water supplies using
simple,
low-cost
technologies,
including manually drilled wells, rope
pumps, rainwater catchment systems
and eco-friendly pour-flush toilets.
Communities have done much of the
hard work themselves, collecting sand
from rivers for use when building wells or cutting
wood to use in toilet construction. We’ve begun to
look at the feasibility of pumping systems using
renewable energy sources: solar, wind or hydraulic
ram.
Water Aid highlights from 2012-2013 report PDF
version:
http://www.wateraid.org/uk/~/media/Files/UK/Finan
cial%20reports/Highlights%20from%202012-13.pdf
Water for People
Mission, Vision, and Guiding Principles
Water For People works to build a world where all
people have access to safe drinking water and
sanitation, and where no one suffers or dies from a
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water- or sanitation-related disease. This is our
vision.
We’re on a mission. We work with people and
partners to develop innovative and long-lasting
solutions to the water, sanitation, and hygiene
problems in the developing world. We strive to
continually improve, to experiment with promising
new ideas, and to leverage resources to multiply our
impact.
The real failures are all the broken pumps, filled
latrines, and solutions that aren’t. We want to change
all that. The solution? Programs that last and
examine entire districts and regions rather than
purely households and villages; create solutions that
last, and not only do people benefit for a long period,
but organizations don’t have to expend time and
energy going back again and again to the same
location.
First, by covering an entire district our work has to
take into account both the easy locations and the
difficult locations to serve, because we must
diligently plan out and implement total coverage.
Second, success in an entire municipality is a
noticeable event for the private sector, government,
and the communities themselves. This builds
awareness of this possibility, success, and higher
demand for total water and sanitation coverage in
large areas.
By focusing on full coverage of water and sanitation
in a region (of whatever size), Water For People
shows that innovation applies not just to technology
but to How We Work as well.
World Water Council
Our vision is a world where all people have access to
safe drinking water and sanitation, a world where no
one suffers or dies from a water- or sanitationrelated disease. That vision is within reach and we
hope you’ll join us.
How we work
At a local level: Water For People works in
collaboration with a variety of other organizations
and groups on the ground. First, the community is
the central player. We bring the government, private
sector, development organizations, and others to the
table. Each must play their role and contribute to the
success of the community.
We involve local municipalities and private sector
companies in the planning, funding, and
implementation of projects to ensure long-lasting
results. The Water For People country coordinator
connects these partners with the communities who
have expressed a desire to change their lives through
water resources and improved sanitation.
At a regional level: Many organizations work at a
project level. Water For People is dedicated to longlasting solutions and a focus on full within entire
districts or municipalities. The impact of this work is
twofold.
Profile and mission:
The World Water Council is an international multistakeholder platform. It was established in 1996 on the
initiative of renowned water specialists and international
organizations, in response to an increasing concern about
world water issues from the global community.
The World Water Council's mission is to promote
awareness, build political commitment and trigger action
on critical water issues at all levels, including the highest
decision-making level, to facilitate the efficient
conservation, protection, development, planning,
management and use of water in all its dimensions on an
environmentally sustainable basis for the benefit of all life
on earth.
By providing a platform to encourage debates and
exchanges of experience, the Council aims to reach a
common strategic vision on water resources and water
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services management amongst all stakeholders in the
water community. In the process, the Council also
catalyses initiatives and activities, whose results converge
toward its flagship product, the World Water Forum.
policy- and decision-makers from all regions of the
world can come together, debate and attempt to find
solutions to achieve water security.
The Council's action for the triennial period until
2015 is oriented in priority towards bringing people
together through active hydro-diplomacy, exploring
new ideas and concepts and discussing issues while
encouraging exchanges and networking.
In the past, the Forum has produced the World Water
Vision, a unique prospective exercise on the future
state of global water resources whose results were
presented at the 2nd Forum, as well as the
establishment of concrete actions and commitments
derived from the 3rd Forum.
The anticipated activities are situated in 4 specific
domains:
1.
Water on the Political Agenda
2.
Exploring Water Security issues
3.
Co-organizing World Water Forums
4.
Reinforcing the Organization
Through its wide membership of organizations
throughout the world, the Council spreads
information about the processes it carries out in
leading political, scientific and technical domains, in
addition to practical perspectives and knowledge. It
does this through a wide range of activities overseen
by the Board of Governors, including the World
Water
Forums,
multi-stakeholder
dialogues,
workshops, publications and online platforms.
The Council, as an umbrella organization, follows
three working principles:
-It restricts itself to policy-related issues and
addresses other issues only if they are cross-cutting
or controversial;
-It plays the role of facilitator for cross-cutting
programs and does not do work that could be done
by its members;
-It cooperates with its members to identify the policy
implications of their work and helps them to develop
and promote these implications.
Accomplishments
One of the Council's major accomplishments is its
contribution to increasing awareness of global water
issues and to political mobilization through World
Water Forums. Serving as stepping-stones towards
global collaboration on water problems, the Forum is
a unique platform where the water community and
The Council has also played a strategic role in
promoting and facilitating the establishment of
dialogues on cross-cutting issues that were not
sufficiently addressed, both at local levels and
national levels. Key dialogues include those on Water
for Food and Environment, and on Water and
Climate.
In 2001, the Council raised the issue of financing to
the top of its priorities by establishing the Panel on
Financing Water Infrastructure, whose mandate was
to look for new sources of funding for water to avoid
the 2025 "water scarcity" scenario of the World
Water Vision.