A team representing government and NGOs from Ethiopia joined a visit to Ghana to learn about planning for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for WASH.
Self-supply is the term given to families helping themselves through development of their own water supplies. Usually based on wells dug near the home or fields, such water supplies meet a range of domestic and food production needs. The regional government are launching a new programme to support...
Sensitization workshops on self-supply acceleration were organized for different woredas of the Amhara and Oromia regions by CRS, World Vision and CARE to speed up implementation.
In Ethiopia, achieving universal access by 2030 without working on Self-supply would be unrealistic. About 35% of the rural population still relies on unprotected wells and springs for drinking water supply, despite huge investments on water supply infrastructures in the past 25 years.
Whether you live in the countryside or city in Ethiopia, your water may be unsafe to drink. Household water treatment is one way we can improve its quality.
Early in 2015, we worked with World Vision to develop a baseline for their interventions in Omonada woreda (in Oromia region), Ethiopia, where they are piloting a Self-supply acceleration approach.
The theme of World Water Day 2016 - Water and Jobs - focused on how enough and the right quality of water can change workers' lives and livelihoods, and even transform societies and economies. Linked to this theme, the National Self Supply Task Force in collaboration with IRC, MWA, JICA, Water for...
My Water, My Business 2016 is an exhibition and seminar focused on Self-supply and linked to World Water Day 2016. The ambitious aim this year is to bring together different approaches to household-level provision, so going beyond domestic water supply to include household irrigation, water...
Will Ethiopia's big economic push raise the country out of poverty? And will everyone in the country have water, sanitation and hygiene services in the coming years?
The Multi-Stakeholder Forum - popularly know as the MSF - is the key annual WaSH sector event in Ethiopia. At the end of 2015, the One WaSH National Program was again in the spotlight.
From 7-9 September 2015, IRC, the Millennium Water Alliance- Ethiopia Program (MWA-EP) and the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Energy (MoWIE) facilitated a national learning retreat on Self-supply. Participants came together in Butajira: a small town in Meskan in the Southern Nations,...
The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (TCCAF) provided funding under the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN) for Millennium Water Alliance Ethiopia Programme (MWA-EP) partners to 'deepen' their water, sanitation and hygiene interventions. The extra support was used to experiment with new interventions to...
This case study examines how the Multiple Use water Services (MUS) approach was applied in Kalu to develop joint domestic water supply and irrigation...
In Ethiopia, the Self-supply approach for rural water supply is expected to fill gaps left by other service delivery models including community water...
