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The hub for everything you want and need to know about providing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services at scale. We're here to talk about Everyone Forever, systems change, climate resilience, sustainability, and real solutions to reaching Sustainable Development Goal 6 - water and sanitation for all.
Featured Blog Post
On the Road Toward Everyone Forever: Implementing the Sustainable Services Checklist in Latin America
By Patrick Coad, Latin America Regional Program Officer
Water is often seen as a free gift of nature, a common pool resource that belongs to everyone. However, ensuring long-term access to water requires investment, governance, and long-term planning. At Water For People, we implement a Sustainable Services Checklist to measure our progress toward lasting water, sanitation, and hygiene access.
As we prepare to roll this out for 2025, I’m reflecting on what it takes to truly measure our progress across Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru.
Featured Resources
Design Guidance for Inclusive Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programming for Women and Youth with Disabilities. Focus on Menstrual Health Management (MHM)
This paper offers guidance for inclusive WASH programs focused on menstrual health for women and youth with disabilities. It outlines their key barriers and emphasizes the need for meaningful involvement in program design. Actionable recommendations aim to ensure accessible, safe, and equitable WASH services.
The Role of International Development Cooperation in Climate Justice
International development actors are making a mad dash to incorporate climate change issues into their programming. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to fund or justify any development intervention in the Global South that does not in some way include climate-responsive action, be it mitigation or adaptation.
The Case for Source Water Protection in WASH Systems – Entry Points and Opportunities
A paper written with colleagues from The Nature Conservancy, Forest Trends, and Tetra Tech/USAID Sustainable Water Partnership on the important crossroads of WASH Service delivery work with Source Water Protection work. Including case studies, this brief paper illustrates the many ways the two sectors overlap and outlines ways to work more closely together.