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Everyone Forever
Water For People’s WASH system-strengthening model

Since 2011, Water For People has implemented the Everyone Forever model in nine countries. We pivoted from working on a discrete project-by-project basis in 40+ countries to taking on the challenge of establishing sustainable services in entire districts.

The Everyone Forever model is a system-strengthening approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), implemented at the district level with strategic influence to scale nationally. It predates but aligns with and reinforces the more recent Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and Sanitation and Water for All’s Collaborative Behaviors.

Everyone

Everyone means that every community, family, school, and clinic in the districts where we work has access to safe and reliable WASH services.

Forever

To ensure these services are sustainable, Forever means that the institutions, built on strong government partnership and co-financing from the start, are in place for services to continue without Water For People’s continued direct support.

The Everyone Forever model components are implemented in phases, achieving key milestones in each phase before moving to the next. While the key components of the Everyone Forever model are the same for both water and sanitation services, Water For People applies two complementary frameworks to achieve sustainable WASH services. Our Road to Everyone Forever serves as the implementation roadmap for both water and sanitation services within Everyone Forever districts. The Path to Scaling Sanitation is applied for all sanitation initiatives, regardless of whether the initiative is implemented within or outside of Everyone Forever districts.

Reaching Milestones

For water, three Everyone milestones must be reached. This means achieving universal coverage with an intermediate or high level of service in at least 90% of community water points, 95% of public institutions, and 95% of households. Reaching the Forever milestone means achieving an intermediate or high level of sustainability for eight indicators organized in three categories:

· Service Authority: The capacity of the Service Authority, or the entity responsible for ensuring the delivery of water services in a district, to manage, finance, and monitor water services in a district.

• Service Provider: The capacity of the Service Provider, or the entity responsible for dayto-day provision of water services, to finance, operate, and manage water services.

• Water Resources Management: The capacity of the responsible authorities to ensure the quality and quantity of water sources in a district over the long-term.

For sanitation, Everyone milestones include achieving a basic level of service in at least 90% of households, and a majority of sludge in the district is treated and disposed of safely.

Reaching the Forever milestone means the district government adequately plans for, finances, regulates, and monitors sanitation services in the district.

Learn more about our milestones.

Water

The road to Everyone Forever for water and sanitation in Everyone Forever districts.

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Sanitation

The path to scaling sanitation within and outside of Everyone Forever districts.

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The Everyone Forever model requires four forces working in concert to be successful

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WATCH HOW EVERYONE FOREVER IS IMPLEMENTED

We spend years, not days, in communities. We work until every single person — even the hardest-to-reach, the most vulnerable, the marginalized — has access to safe, reliable water, sanitation, and hygiene services. We work with local communities from the inside out, building robust systems and training local workers so districts can operate independently — and water and sanitation services will last for generations to come.

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