Children in Honduras (photo: Susan Davis)
Improve International is committed to ensuring the success of water sanitation projects around the world. We strongly support the change in mindset from just providing water access (for example, digging wells) to facilitating ongoing water services (which often involves working with communities, governments, and private sector over time). It might take longer, but it lasts longer. Current activities include:
- Partnering with Water1st to scale up the Water & Sanitation Accountability Forum
- Supporting a collective impact study for the Millennium Water Alliance
- Providing WASH advice to the Foundation Center for Washfunders.org
- Facilitating the core indicators WASH ME initiative
- Working with students from Georgia Tech on a review of water point mapping and monitoring tools in Nicaragua (Preliminary Report_Mapping Technologies)
- Advising organizations on their monitoring, evaluation, learning, and reform programs
- Reading and learning a lot and writing blogs
Recent activities include:
- Facilitating the first Water & Sanitation Accountability Forum in Honduras
- Co-facilitating the Getting School WASH Right Conference and writing the report
- Chairing a panel at the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative conference
- Moderating a workshop at the UNC Water & Health Conference called “Moving forward with core water supply, sanitation & hygiene indicators”
- Moderating a panel on “Quenching the Big Thirst” at an Atlanta+Acumen gathering at Georgia Tech
- Speaking to the Atlanta+Acumen gathering about un-frequently asked questions on international development
- Helping to plan sustainability panel for “Get Schooled on WASH” learning sessions for World Water Day 2012 (we were thrilled to have Leonel Amaya from COCEPRADIL as one of the speakers)
