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What we do

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WaterAid has developed a vulnerability ranking system to ensure resources are fairly allocated.
Credit: WaterAid / Jim Holmes

WaterAid and its partners use practical solutions to provide safe water, effective sanitation and hygiene education to the world’s poorest people.

We also seek to influence policy at national and international levels.

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Where we work

How we work

Guiding principles

WaterAid Nigeria believes that:

  • Access to and control over potable water, effective sanitation and hygiene to have a direct bearing on poverty.
  • The development and implementation of approaches must target the most vulnerable in society, especially women and children.
  • Health benefits can be maximised only if good hygiene and sanitation are appreciated as integral to the improvement of water supplies.
  • All projects should provide useful practical technologies that are low in cost so that user communities can take responsibility for their operation and management.

 
Nigeria
Nigeria Map
WaterAid Nigeria
Area: 923,768km²
Capital: Abuja
Other main cities:
Lagos, Ibadan,
Port Harcourt, Kaduna and Kano
  • Population
    Population icon147.7m
  • Infant mortality
    Infant mortality icon99/1000
  • Child deaths (under five) from diarrhoea per annum
    Under five icon152,000
  • Life expectancy
    Life expectancy icon47.7 years
  • Water supply coverage
    Water supply coverage icon47%
  • Sanitation coverage
    Sanitation coverage icon30%
  • Below poverty line
    Below poverty line icon34.1%
  • Development index
    Development index icon158
  • Adult literacy
    Adult literacy icon72%
Sources:
Human Development Report 2006/09, World Development Report 2006/09, UNICEF State of the World's Children 2009, and WHO World Health Statistics 2009

NB. Official statistics tend to understate the extent of water and sanitation problems, sometimes by a large factor. There are not sufficient resources available for accurate monitoring of either population or coverage. Varying definitions of water and sanitation coverage are used and national figures mask large regional differences in coverage.
 

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