Levered project work

Credit: WaterAid / Caroline Irby

Through our levered projects we are able to influence the water and sanitation investments of other organisations to ensure they are also designed to be sustainable, pro-poor and cost effective.

This is a valuable way of ensuring others carry out high quality water, sanitation and hygiene projects and also gives an indicator of our level of influence.

In the year 2004-2005 our partners helped a further 330,000 people gain access to water and 580,000 gain access to sanitation using levered income.

• We plan to ensure that our levered project work enables at least a further 500,000 people gain access to water and 500,000 people to gain access to sanitation every year by 2010.
  
  
• By 2010, through levered and WaterAid-funded project work we will be helping 1.5 million people gain access to safe water and 1.5 million people gain access to sanitation every year. This amounts to 3.5% of the annual new water coverage and 2.5% of the annual new sanitation coverage needed to meet the Millennium Development Goals for water and sanitation in the countries where we work.