Ethiopia

Population partner districts: 279,574 South Ari & 117,960 Mille | Water coverage: 13% South Ari & 16% Mille (Based on JMP indicators)

Through our USAID Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) Learning Partnership, we are working to strengthen rural and small town water supply systems in two partner woredas (districts) Mille (Afar) and South Ari (SNNPR). With our partners in the Millennium Water Alliance (MWA), we are supporting development of district master plans for SDG 6 in three woredas in Amhara region. Through our partnership in the USAID Transform WASH Project, we are working on sanitation market development for improved sanitation. At the national level, we are supporting with knowledge management.

South Ari and Mille districts

In Mille and South Ari, we are working with water service providers, local government, non-governmental organisations and academic organisations to ensure access to effective WASH services to everyone in the districts. We work with local actors through learning alliances. In the learning alliances, local stakeholders develop understanding of their WASH service delivery system and execute a shared learning and action agenda. We expect that locally driven innovation will result in better solutions to challenges and changes that increase the sustainability of WASH services and deliver services to everyone by 2030.

In all our work we strive to influence those in power to take WASH seriously and to engage in systems strengthening.