Strengthening District-Level WASH Governance: Critical to Sustainable Service Delivery

The USAID Uganda Sanitation for Health Activity (USHA) aims to strengthen water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) governance for sustainable services in 20 districts, as well as at the national level. Good governance is critical to the sustainability of USHA’s work to expand access to WASH services in households, schools, and health centers. While USHA works with officials at different levels of government—focusing on building capacity to administer policies transparently while embracing accountability—this brief describes USHA’s approach to and emerging lessons from good governance activities focused on sanitation and hygiene at the district level.