• Where to Find USAID at the 2018 UNC Water and Health Conference
    Blog
    The Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meets Policy will take place October 29–November 2, 2018, at the University of North Carolina ­(UNC)-Chapel Hill.
  • The Ripple Effect: Empowering Women through Water – World Water Week 2018 (Live Stream)
    Event Recording
    The Water and Development Alliance (WADA) showcase at Stockholm World Water Week provided an opportunity for The Coca-Cola Company, the U.S.
  • Meet the Members: Portia Persley, Deputy Director Water Office, USAID
    Video
    Portia Persley, deputy director of the USAID Water Office is also a Toilet Board Coalition Steering Committee Member. 
  • The Ripple Effect: Supporting Women’s Empowerment through Water
    Blog
    New research demonstrates that improving a woman’s access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) provides a multitude of indirect and positive impacts that often are overlooked in traditional development interventions.
  • Key Takeaways from Stockholm World Water Week 2018
    Blog
    More than 3,000 practitioners and decision-makers gathered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the end of August 2018 for World Water Week.
  • Sylvia Cabus on Gender Mainstreaming in Water and Sanitation Programming
    Podcast
    Sylvia Cabus serves as Senior Gender Advisor for USAID’s Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. In this podcast, Sylvia speaks with Global Waters Radio about some of the many ways the Agency integrates gender into its water, sanitation, and hygiene programming.
  • Check Out USAID at World Water Week 2018
    Blog
    World Water Weekstarts in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 26. The annual gathering organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) has become a focal point for the globe’s water issues. Last year’s event attracted more than 3,300 individuals and some 380 convening organizations from 135 countries.
  • Sustainable Water Partnership
    Central Program
    The Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) is a five-year, Leader with Associates cooperative agreement that supports U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) thought leadership, innovation and action in global water security by integrating water security issues into Mission programming through relevant, Mission-specific initiatives. Together with its partners Tetra Tech, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), World Resources Institute (WRI), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and its resource partners CEO Water Mandate and mWater, and Winrock International will develop comprehensive water security intervention strategies using locally owned solutions at the water basin, sub-basin and local catchment scales.
  • Webinar Explores the Complexities of the Sanitation Marketplace
    Blog
    If you thought that sanitation marketing required only the connecting of customers, products, and financing to succeed, then you may wonder why it has proven so challenging to take this intervention to scale. 
  • Hope is Not a Strategy
    Blog
    “Water variability has always existed,” said USAID Climate Change Adaptation Specialist Jonathan Cook, opening the fourth and final “Sustainable Water, Resilient Communities” event. At the event on May 30, co-hosted by the USAID-funded Sustainable Water Partnership (SWP) and the Wilson Center, panelists came together to discuss challenges of water variability–challenges which are, at first glance, staggering.