{"id":28132,"date":"2023-02-21T11:54:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T11:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?page_id=28132"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:20:09","slug":"wash","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wash\/","title":{"rendered":"Our WASH approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div id=\"x-section-1\" class=\"x-section bg-image\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 00px 0px; background-image: url(https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/02\/handwashing.jpg); background-color: transparent;\" data-x-element=\"section\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;parallax&quot;:false}\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 200px 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px 20px 50px;\" ><h1  class=\"h-custom-headline cs-ta-center man h1\" ><span><font class=\"whitetext\">Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)<\/font><\/span><\/h1><hr  class=\"x-hr\" style=\"border-color: #dab525; border-width: 10px;   margin:  17px auto 12px auto; width:30%;border-top-width: 1px;width: 100%;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-section-2\" class=\"x-section cs-ta-center\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px 90px; background-color: transparent;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 30px;padding: 0px 5%;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-2-3\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 30px 0 0 0;\"><h2 id=\"ourapproach\" class=\"h-custom-headline man h3\" style=\"color: #8cc540;\"><span>WASH for healthy lives, livelihoods, and resilience<\/span><\/h2><hr  class=\"x-hr\" style=\"border-color: #dab525; border-width: 2px;   margin:  17px auto 12px auto; width:30%;border-top-width: 1px;width: 100%;\"><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 30px 0 0 0;\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text cs-ta-left\" style=\"\" ><p><span>In the past 15 years we have reached more than five million people with safe water access, and more than one million households have built toilets following our interventions. WASH reinforces our mission by improving the health, livelihoods and resilience of the communities we serve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h6>Our WASH vision and objectives<\/h6>\n<p>We believe everyone should be able to access resilient water, sanitation and hygiene services that help support sustainable livelihoods and healthy lives in a changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, our three interconnecting objectives for WASH are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contributing to universal, sustainable WASH services and practices in communities and public institutions, leading to healthy lives and contributing to the targets of UN Sustainable Development Goal 6 (ensuring access to water and sanitation for all)<\/li>\n<li>Reinforcing and creating sustainable livelihoods from WASH value chains and using WASH \u2018outputs\u2019 as inputs for sustainable agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening communities\u2019 resilience to a changing climate and other shocks and disasters, and responding to those disasters where appropriate and needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"2\"><\/ol>\n<\/div><span class=\"x-image e28132-e14 mlpg-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/wash-vision.jpg\" width=\"379\" height=\"332\" alt=\"Image\"><\/span><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text cs-ta-left\" style=\"\" ><h6>Our WASH approach<\/h6>\n<p>During the next five years, we'll help at least two million people improve their sustainable access to safe drinking water and at least basic sanitation services.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve our WASH vision and objectives, we'll focus on six interconnecting themes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #8cc540;\"><strong>WASH THEMES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28924\" width=\"800\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1-100x102.jpg 100w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/05\/WASH-themes-1-400x408.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We work in diverse contexts. In each country we have specific WASH-sectoral (and wider organisational) niches, comparative advantages and focus areas. This is why the themes we focus on will vary between countries and we do not seek to work across all themes in all countries.<\/p>\n<h6><b>Our WASH work in action<\/b><\/h6>\n<p>We take a \u2018community-led total sanitation\u2019 approach, supporting communities to identify and solve their own sanitation problems. We use sports, music and communication technologies to share important health messages.<\/p>\n<p>To maximise impact, we integrate our WASH approach into our broader work with communities. \u00a0For example, nutrition messages are often included in our WASH behaviour change activities, while our WASH in schools programme can have a nutrition component, such as with our school nutrition gardens in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<h6>Strengthening WASH systems<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working with local governments, we identify and overcome barriers to sustainable, inclusive, area-wide WASH services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Nigeria and Malawi, we have worked with local authorities to develop strategic, district-wide WASH plans. In Mozambique, we have given technical support and quality assurance to donors and the Government. In Nigeria, our long-term support to the Government\u2019s open defecation free (ODF) strategy has benefited more than 1.7 million people and led to the first Local Government Area in the country becoming ODF.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Market-based approaches are increasingly key to our WASH work, too. The aim is to help increase access to WASH products and services, and create WASH-related jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><b>Increasing WASH inclusion and social accountability<\/b><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In many countries, there are still gaping disparities in access to adequate WASH services. To help address that, we build processes that hold governments and WASH service providers to account. We also work with communities seeking to advocate better access to WASH services. In Brazil, for example, we\u2019re supporting communities in low-income urban areas through rights-based approaches \u2013 sharing our knowledge and expertise so they then feel better able to advocate access to the services they need.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gender equality is at the heart of all our WASH work. Access to water and sanitation is essential to women and girls\u2019 social and economic development. We\u2019ve improved gender-friendly WASH facilities in schools. Our work on tackling taboos and practices in menstrual hygiene management, through local sanitary pad manufacture, behaviour change work and community dialogue, has benefitted thousands of women and girls, including in Malawi and Nigeria.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are a proud member of key WASH networks such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rural-water-supply.net\/en\/\">Rural Water Supply Network<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.susana.org\/en\/\">Sustainable Sanitation Alliance<\/a>. We also serve on the steering committee of the UK WASH Network.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/rwsn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/rwsn.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28771\" width=\"198\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/rwsn.jpg 500w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/rwsn-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/rwsn-100x51.jpg 100w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/rwsn-400x202.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/ssa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/ssa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28770\" width=\"153\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/ssa.jpg 267w, https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/ssa-100x65.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm cs-ta-center x-1-3\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><h5  class=\"h-custom-headline h5\" style=\"color: #8cc540;\"><span>read our WASH strategy 2023-2027<\/span><\/h5><hr class=\"x-line e28132-e18 mlpg-2\"\/><a class=\"x-image e28132-e19 mlpg-0\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/WASH-strategy-2023-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/strategy-cover.jpg\" width=\"200\" 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