Our aim is to reach everyone, everywhere with clean water, good sanitation services and hygiene education. But we cannot do it alone. Collaboration makes our mission possible. We work with national and international organizations (Bilateral and multilateral donors) such as the United Nations, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Union. Together we provide appropriate, innovative and long-term solutions to address complex water, sanitation, and hygiene issues and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

To achieve our aim, we support national and state governments in developing and implementing a range of innovative intervention models for improved water supply, sanitation and hygiene. We also conduct research and generate knowledge for evidence-based policies and pilot new technologies that benefit communities at large.

Effective partnerships strengthen our core work for clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene - the three essentials that unlock progress for people, communities and economies worldwide.

Why partner with us?

Our aim is to reach everyone, everywhere with clean water, good sanitation services and hygiene education. But we cannot do it alone. Collaboration makes our mission possible.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set the way forward towards ending all forms of poverty. We collaborate and work with other non-WASH partners in consortiums as we believe that water, sanitation, and hygiene are the main contributors to address interlinked Sustainable Development Goals. We aim to provide appropriate, dependable and long term solutions to address complex water, sanitation, and hygiene issues.

Our approach

To achieve our aim, we support national and state governments in developing and implementing a range of innovative intervention models for improved water supply, sanitation and hygiene. We also conduct research and generate knowledge for evidence-based policies. Finally, we pilot new technologies that benefit communities at large.

Our aim is to mobilise people’s voices and to facilitate collective action through platforms and alliances in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector and beyond.

 

Our partners

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)

The 3ie funded project in partnership with EAWAG and WaterAid has undertaken a study to evaluate the impact of behavior change intervention using the Risks, Attitudes, Norms, Abilities and Self-regulation (RANAS) approach to improve latrine use in Raichur district of Karnataka. This study uses a stratified cluster-randomised controlled trial to evaluate the developed behavior change interventions, where households are the units of observation.

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European Union

The European Union funded project focuses on strengthening the rule of law to advance rights and freedom of manual scavengers in India, with a focus on women from the communities. The project is implemented in 12 districts across Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, in partnership with Association for Rural and Urban Needy (ARUN) and Centre for Equity Studies (CES). The project aims to contribute towards enhanced social capital and capacities of the communities engaged in manual scavenging as well as with civil society organisations/networks to advocate their rights and seek justice.

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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports WaterAid, in partnership with Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence (CURE) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI), for a pilot project of a first-of-its-kind small-scale, decentralised faecal sludge management model in New Delhi. Apart from the treatment unit, the project aims to develop convergent action from all stakeholders, including service providers in the sanitation value chain, from collection to safe disposal and reuse. On successful implementation of the model, a technically, economically, and socially effective and viable solution will be ready for scale-up in low-income settlements to handle household faecal waste.

UNICEF

UNICEF

UNICEF and WaterAid India work together to strengthen Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (FSSM) services through City wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) in 2 Urban Local Bodies and facilitating convergence with neighboring rural areas of Madhya Pradesh. The intervention aims to work closely with local authorities and demonstrate the implementation of a scheduled desludging service, ensuring safe collection and treatment of fecal waste.

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Swedish Radio Appeal Board (SRAB)

Swedish Radio Appeal Board (SRAB) and WaterAid India work with school children, their teachers and communities to develop child-centred disaster preparedness and resilience plans. This would be critical in decreasing the vulnerability of children, and will at the same time ensure the children’s right to influence their present situation and thus develop the communities in which they live.

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Gap Inc.

The Gap Inc is supporting WAI to sustain the momentum created by Women+ Water Alliance (W+W), a six-year Global Development Alliance (GDA) between USAID and Gap Inc. WaterAid, a partner in this Alliance since 2019, focused on strengthening community drinking water management in five districts in Madhya Pradesh and two districts in Maharashtra, India, which improved access to water, water resource management, and water quality in 40 blocks and 2,400 Villages.

This project is addressing the emerging priorities at the district level and to supplement the momentum for key activities at the community level and improving access, availability, quality, reliability, affordability and governance of water for communities located in seven districts in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Morpho Foundation

Morpho Foundation

Morpho Foundation support a project on a project around Climate Resilient WASH and WASH in Institution- The Project intends to ensure a safe and adequate water supply and address water issues through sustainable water management systems at community level. The project also intends to improve WASH facilities in Institutions (Schools and Anganwadi centers) and hygiene practices among students at school and Anganwadi centers. In order to ensure safely managed WASH facilities and hygiene practices among students in these institutions, we will be engaging with Students, teachers, parents and frontline workers

One Drop Foundation

One Drop Foundation

One Drop Foundation and WaterAid India are working together to demonstrate community-managed WASH services including piped water supply, water quality monitoring, Social Art for Behavior Change, and measures towards sustaining services by establishing entrepreneurial models of services and supplies. The project aims to demonstrate community-led decentralized WASH models on fluoride mitigation, solid and liquid waste management, flood resilient toilet technologies, piped water supply measures at hard to reach communities in 40 Gram Panchayats in districts Gaya and Madhubani in Bihar

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Water.org

WaterAid India (WAI) and Water.org have been working in India to address the complex WASH issues utilizing unique approaches and strategies. Water.org is supporting a pilot project, first first-of-its-kind to improve access and availability of affordable WASH products and service models at the household and community level in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

The project aims to contribute towards generating awareness and facilitating scale-up of WASH business models through state and national level schemes and inclusion of revenue models focused on and household WSS financing facilities. The project is also creating awareness about alternative finance schemes for WASH and support potential revenue models for WASH supply chain enterprises.

H&M Foundation

H&M Foundation

H&M Foundation is supporting WaterAid to work with waste pickers, their families and their communities to ensure waste pickers, their collectives, and federations are aware of the importance of clean water and decent toilets and are able to exercise their right to safe water. The project has created evidence of the exclusion of waste pickers from services related to safe drinking water, sanitation and available opportunities. The project is also addressing and responding to immediate needs and developing demonstration models in selected 15 settlements of waste pickers in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

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If you're interested in partnering with WaterAid we'd love to hear from you - we're always on the lookout for dedicated organisations who want to make a difference.