Water For People (WFP) promotes developing high-quality drinking water and sanitation services, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments in 39 partner areas in Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Malawi, Peru, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. To date, they have supported 5.2 million people gaining access to an intermediate/high level of water services and market-based sanitation initiatives have led to 2.4 million people improving household sanitation.

Shockwave’s funding be used to develop and share case studies from Latin America and Africa that show how country programs are adapting to climate change. These studies will make climate resilient WASH more tangible and will inspire and lower barriers for WFP’s other country programs to shift priorities and implement climate adaptive water systems and contribute to a knowledge base to encourage other water organizations to make their projects climate resilient.

WFP will integrate these cases into training and influence opportunities within Water for People, the One for All Alliance, and across the WASH sector. They will also develop key metrics to measure freshwater ecosystem health.

Why We Partner

We aim to show that climate resilient WASH is a crucial investment to help communities adapt to climate change.

Impact

These case studies will provide clear examples of climate resilient WASH and will lower the barrier for piloting and implementing new approaches.