Millions of people in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries still lack access to basic water services. In fact, as of 2020, the majority of people without basic water services lived in rural areas.
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Through Isoko y’Ubuzima (“source of life”), USAID works to improve access to drinking water and sanitation services through a combination of technical and financial support.
Nearly a decade after the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2014 was signed into law, USAID continues to increase access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services and facilitate sound water resources management each year.
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USAID’s Anka Jiko Activity (loosely translated as “concerning water”) aims to improve the quality and sustainability of water and sanitation services in rural Mali by building the capacity of c
Located in West Africa, Côte d'Ivoire has a population of over 24 million, of which it is estimated that about 13 million people have universal access to basic sanitation.
In 2017, USAID’s Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) program in Nepal began with a goal to support closing the WASH services access gap with technical assistance to expand and insti
This paper presents three case studies from the USAID Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) Program, which illustrate different approaches to leveraging commercial finance in the water