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Innovation in Financing Brightens WASH Galaxy: Funding for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Starts to Arrive Faster, With Clearer Requirements
This article originally appeared on Circle of Blue and is the second in a series on the global status of universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene, produced through a collaboration between Circle of Blue and the Wilson Center.
People devoted to financing water, sanitation and hygiene in developing nations worried for much of 2020. Utility customers stopped paying their water bills. Funders altered their priorities. Heads of state turned their attention to other virus-related emergencies.
But did COVID-19 affect funding enough to slow progress toward universal access to clean water, safe sanitation, and hygiene? And if it did, by how much?
Innovation in Financing Brightens WASH Galaxy
Funding for water, sanitation and hygiene starts to arrive faster, with clearer requirements
By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue April 26, 2021
People devoted to financing water, sanitation and hygiene in developing nations worried for much of 2020. Utility customers stopped paying their water bills. Funders altered their priorities. Heads of state turned their attention to other virus-related emergencies.
But did COVID-19 affect funding enough to slow progress toward universal access to clean water, safe sanitation, and hygiene? And if it did, by how much?
The data did not look good:
• In May 2020, the United Nations reported that 400 million jobs were lost around the world.
Launching of “MuniWASH” Program
The United States and Côte d’Ivoire Launch “MuniWASH” Program to Improve Access to Potable Water and Sanitation
On December 8, 2020, Ivoirian interim Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization Vagondo Diomandé and U.S. Ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire Richard Bell launched the Municipal Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene activity (MuniWASH), a U.S. government-funded regional assistance program to improve access to potable water and sanitation services to residents of Côte d’Ivoire and Benin. MuniWASH activities, funded through the United States Agency for International Development Agency (USAID), will benefit residents of eight Ivoirian cities in support of Côte d’Ivoire’s goal of reaching 100 percent water and sanitation coverage by 2030. Minister of Cleanliness and Sanitation Anne Désirée Ouloto, Minister of Hydraulics Laurent Tchagba, and USAID Country Representative Dr. Nancy Lowenthal also attended the
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