This week, Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) held a webinar to explore what an enabling environment for urban sanitation really looks like. Despite its evident importance to achieving scale, the components of a well-functioning enabling environment for urban sanitation are weakly understood. This webinar shared lessons from a 5-year programme – funded […]
By Rosemary Campbell, Head of Water This week we are celebrating World Water Day, and the theme of this year’s campaign is Nature for Water. This might not sound immediately relevant to WSUP’s work in some of the world’s largest and most densely populated cities, but it certainly is. Finding ways to accommodate rapid urbanisation […]
On 13th March, The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF), Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), and Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and the Asokore Mampong municipality celebrated the completion of a two-year project to bring access to safe, affordable water to 45,000 individuals across six low-income communities in Kumasi, Ghana. The ceremony, which was attended by The Municipal […]
Urbanisation is not just about the world’s megacities like Manila, or Dhaka, or the thousands of towns that are now turning into major cities. It’s also about the communities that are turning into towns but still have the infrastructure of a small village. The towns of the Ashanti region of southern Ghana, around the country’s […]
Dubai Cares, part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, has partnered with Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) to improve access to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities in schools in two of Madagascar’s largest cities, Antananarivo and Mahajanga. The three-year programme, which represents an investment of AED 3.8 million (USD […]
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