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- 10/05/2011: Presentation by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at The Water Institute, University of North Carolina - Turning Impossible Challenges into Solvable Problems
- 09/23/2011: Presentation by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - Water Security for Women and Girls
- 09/23/2011: Better Irrigation Brings Better Life: USAID rebuilds karezes in Daman to improve agricultural output
- 09/22/2011: Podcast interview at CSIS with Chris Holmes on USAID's current work on Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programming
- 09/22/2011: Presentation by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies - Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene Programming
- 09/19/2011: Remarks by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, at the Center for Environment and National Security - Water Security, Climate Change and Finance
- 09/16/2011: Remarks by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, Meeting Global Water Needs: Challenges and Solutions
- 09/08/2011 Hand Washing Hygiene Saves Lives
- 09/07/2011: Health and Wealth Filter Through
- 07/19/2011: WASH for Life
- 07/05/2011: Photo Essay: Establishing the Lake Niassa Reserve in Mozambique
- 07/2011: Your Voice: Peru’s Melting Glaciers Teach Community “to Be Strong in the Face of the Changes”
- 06/13/2011: Remarks by Christian Holmes, USAID Global Water Coordinator, Water for People Founders Award Address
- 03/22/2011: Secretary Clinton on World Water Day (Department of State website)
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Sanitation Working Group
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Worldwide, more than 2 billion people lack access to improved sanitation. The problem is particularly accute in Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where only 38% and 53% of the population, respectively, have access to sanitation services.
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Comprised of Agency staff active on sanitation-related programming, the Sanitation Working Group is committed to providing USAID Field Missions with the resources needed to design and implement cost-effective, sustainable sanitation programs. The Sanitation Working Group's efforts help ensure that USAID both fulfills the requirements of the recent Congressional Appropriation for water, and contributes to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) for global access to sanitation.
In coordination with the Sanitation Working Group, Agency staff in Washington will actively support sanitation programming by:
- Providing direct technical assistance to USAID Field Missions to help them design effective sanitation programs using best practices. These efforts are already underway.
- Providing programming guidance to Mission Technical staff, including detailed topical orientation, and links to resources needed to design effective sanitation programs using best practices. To accomplish this task, USAID will disseminate a Program Guide on Water and Sanitation in February 2009, and roll-out web-based orientation and training modules by summer 2009.
- Providing both distance- and field-based training to Mission technical staff, which will build field staff capacity to design effective sanitation programs using best practices. Field training begins in spring of 2009.
The Sanitation Working Group was established as a key outcome of a “Sanitation Consultation” convened by USAID’s Bureau for Global Health in June, 2008. The Consultation brought together USAID staff from across the Agency and eight internationally recognized sanitation experts from outside of the Agency in an effort to expand, strengthen and better coordinate USAID’s sanitation programming. The objectives of the meeting were to share and analyze current sanitation projects (from both inside and outside the Agency), identify programming gaps and USAID’s comparative advantages, prioritize programming options, and develop next steps to incorporate these priorities into USAID programs.
For more information, contact:
Merri Weinger
Bureau for Global Health
mweinger@usaid.gov
202-712-5102
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