Water Aid

Providing clean water, better hygiene, and sanitation to the world's poorest communities is at the heart of Water Aid's purpose as an international nongovernmental organization. As early as 1987, Water Aid began implementing projects in Nepal. Over the next five years, Water Aid Nepal aims to provide clean water, better sanitation facilities, and the knowledge and skills to practice good hygiene to marginalized groups and individuals, as well as persons living in vulnerable conditions in Nepal.

Vision

• To reach everyone everywhere with safe water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030, helping them to live healthy and dignified lives.

Mission

• To transform the lives of the poorest and most marginalized people by improving access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Goal

• All people, especially those on the margins and those in precarious situations, shall have access to clean water, modern sanitation, and appropriate hygiene practices on an equal basis.

Objectives

In order to effect change, Water Aid Nepal has set four primary goals for the next five years:

• The right to water and sanitation is a human right, and it is important to empower underprivileged groups and individuals, as well as persons in vulnerable situations, to fight for these rights.
• Initiate more responsible and productive WASH service provision.
• Encourage and display the importance of WASH as a cornerstone of all facets of development, including health and education.
• Apply new research, holistic approaches, and innovative technology to WASH.

To support these, four interconnected flagship programs have been designed:

• Reaching the Unreached
• Recovery and Resilient WASH
• Hygiene
• Sector Effectiveness

Water Aid Nepal Strategy, 2017-2021

Strategic objectives1:

•  Enable marginalized communities and individuals, and people in vulnerable situations to take action for their rights to water and sanitation.

To make designs and programs more accessible to all people, it will analyze these factors (social exclusion, gender, location, age, and economic status) from every angle. Together with our allies, it will educate the public on their constitutionally protected rights to safe drinking water and sanitary facilities, amplifying their voices where it counts so they may demand their entitlements, and then take meaningful steps to put those protections into practice. As a result, communities will have the resources they need to adopt better practices, alter their habits, and enhance their sanitation conditions.

Strategic objective 2:

• Promote greater accountability and effectiveness in delivering WASH services.

It motivates others in the field to join forces for the greater good of providing clean water and sanitation to all people, wherever. It helps governments build leadership and competence so that they can more quickly fulfill their WASH pledges. Water and sanitation access will be promoted as a human right. It will aim to collaborate with sector actors in order to accelerate the WASH through driving change, encouraging investment, strengthening systems and capacity for sustainable delivery of WASH, monitoring performance, and learning from each other.

Strategic objective 3:

• Influence and demonstrate WASH as foundational to all aspects of development, with a focus on health and education.

 In order to ensure that WASH is available to everyone, everywhere by 2030, it is being prioritized by other development sectors. It collaborates with other industries to stress the value of universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in public settings including hospitals and schools. Jointly conceiving strategies and working together to implement them increases the odds of success.

Strategic objective 4:

• Apply new research, holistic approaches, and innovative technology for WASH.

Water security measures and designs that can withstand climate change and natural catastrophes will be developed and strengthened, as will the testing of innovative technologies that are cost-effective, sustainable, and locally appropriate. Communities' existing knowledge will be strengthened, making them better able to deal with future threats.