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| Type | Intergovernmental organisation |
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| Focus | Sanitation, hygiene, water supply |
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Area served | Worldwide, with particular focus on Africa, South Asia, and Latin America |
Key people | Rolf Luyendijk, Executive Director Amina J. Mohammed, former Chair and current Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations |
| Website | wsp |
The Global Water Security and Sanitation Program (GWSP), formerly the Water and Sanitation Project, is a trust fund administered by the World Bank geared at improving access to water and sanitation for poor people. GWSP works in more than 25 countries through regional offices in Africa, East and South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and an office in Washington, D.C.. Heath P. Tarbert is the Acting Executive Director for the United States[1]. The GWSP is best known for its work providing technical assistance, building partnerships and capacity building. GWSP focuses on both regulatory and structural changes and also behavior change projects, such as a scaling up handwashing project and scaling up sanitation project. Another key aspect of GWSP's work is sharing knowledge and best practices through multiple channels.
In the financial year 2015, GWSP received US$29.5 million in contributions by donors, such as Austria (Ministry of Finance), Australia (AusAid), Austria (ADA), Denmark, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden (Sida), Switzerland (SDC) and United Kingdom (DFID).
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Activities
Countries Involved
Other Focus Areas
Rural Water and Sanitation Project (RWSP)
The Water and Sanitation Program focuses mostly on metropolitan areas. The Rural Water and Sanitation Project focuses mainly on the rural areas that don't have access to the materials that the metropolitan areas do. The RWSP expands the water and sewage infrastructure in areas that only have it in a small part of the country. [2]
Methodology
History
In an effort to improve upon water and sanitation technology for impoverished nations, the World Bank and United Nations Development program founded the the program in 1978.
The program and its for bearer UNDP invested most of its efforts to testing cost-effective technologies such as hand pumps and latrines for future implementation in the 1980's. However as other world governments and organizations began developing systemic solutions and strategies to approach issues regarding safe water and sanitation, the program followed suit in widening its scope of impact.
Donors
The program is funded by several countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States. [3]
References[edit]
- Jump up^
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- Jump up^ WSP (2015) Water and Sanitation Program: End of Year Report, Fiscal Year 2015, p. 68
Potential sources
http://projects.worldbank.org/P010516/rural-water-supply-sanitation-project?lang=en&tab=overview
http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/444801485298673631/WSP-EndYear2016-Report-02122016.pdf
https://www.unicef.org/eapro/media_9041.html
https://esa.un.org/iys/docs/san_lib_docs/WSP-Mumbai.pdf
http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/pdf/un_water_policy_brief_2_gender.pdf page 4, however, the link attached to the source is outdated
http://sdg.iisd.org/news/world-bank-discusses-pro-poor-water-delivery-in-uganda/
http://www.wsp.org/content/economic-impacts-sanitation#top
- ^ "Heath P. Tarbert". World Bank. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
- ^ "Haiti Rural Water and Sanitation Project". Water Technology. Retrieved 2018-01-31.
- ^ "Press Releases". ifcextapps.ifc.org. Retrieved 2018-01-31.