Strategic goals 2005-2010

Credit: WaterAid / Jon Spaull

In the year 2004-2005, WaterAid helped 610,000 people gain access to safe water and 540,000 people gain access to sanitation.

Based on our beliefs and values we have set ambitious strategic goals to achieve from 2005-2010.

WaterAid will:

• Work with local partner organizations towards helping an extra one million people gain access to water and one million people gain access to sanitation every year by 2010. This target will be focused in 17 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia which between them contain 30% of the world's population without safe water and 40% of the world's population without sanitation.
  
  
• Through levered project work, enable a further 500,000 people to gain access to water and 500,000 people to gain access to sanitation in these countries every year by 2010. Levered project work involves supporting local partners to raise their own funds while playing a strong advisory role on how these funds are spent.
  
  
• Increase its urban work to 30% of program expenditure.
  
  
• Ensure all future water supply and sanitation projects supported by WaterAid address the issues of water depletion and contamination through appropriate integrated water resource management.
  
  
• Demonstrate through practical examples that sustainable and equitable water and sanitation services are essential to achieve the overall Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction and the targets on health, education and the environment. Monitor, support and lobby other organizations to strengthen their own water and sanitation work in this direction.
  
  
• Strengthen local governments' ability to provide equitable and pro-poor water and sanitation services on a larger scale.
  
  
• Develop innovative approaches and new sources of funding to increase annual income to £35 million by 2010 in order to support WaterAid's country program activities and advocacy work.
  
  
• Expand the number of organizations that work using WaterAid's methods through international partnerships and alliances.

WaterAid does not underestimate the implications of the growth envisaged within this strategy. Additional resources will be required for staff, partners and volunteers to continue their high standards of work. WaterAid will therefore strengthen its program management, fundraising, communications and organizational framework to ensure it can achieve these ambitious goals.

WaterAid values its supporters' donations and will continue to ensure it delivers high quality services in a cost effective manner, providing accurate and timely reports on its work.