This working paper details the methodology used by the WISER collaboration within the REACH programme to explore how water insecurity is shaped by gender and social roles at household and community levels. The methods have been used to explore water security challenges such as flooding and salinity of drinking water in coastal Bangladesh; industrial growth in agricultural areas near Addis Ababa in Ethiopia; and water scarcity in Turkana County in northwest Kenya.
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Guaranteeing safe drinking water services for public schools in Kenya: A costed professional service delivery model for Kitui County
This working paper offers a detailed analysis of the costs and requirements to deliver safe and reliable water services in Kitui County schools, based on a county-wide audit and financial information from a professionalized water service delivery model operating in the county. The authors use this to develop an estimate of the cost to guarantee safe and reliable daily drinking water services for all of Kenya’s public schools, and provide insights into new funding models and policy developments to facilitate this important goal.
Policy reform to deliver safely managed drinking water services for schools in rural Bangladesh
This report draws on research from 150 primary and secondary schools in Chandpur district to analyse the status of drinking water services, in terms of access, quality, quantity, functionality, and costs.
Drinking water services in coastal Bangladesh
This report presents empirical evidence on the existing state of drinking water services in coastal Bangladesh, highlighting challenges and opportunities for reforms in the institutional design, information systems, and sustainable finances under the proposed ‘SafePani’ model.
Policy reform for safe drinking water service delivery in rural Bangladesh
As the Government sets out to revise the 1998 National Policy for Safe Water Supply and Sanitation, the ‘SafePani’ model proposes reforms in institutional design, sustainable finance, and information systems, to advance SDG 6.1.
Citizen science in community-based watershed management: An institutional analysis in Ethiopia
This study examines the existing institutional arrangements for hydrometeorological monitoring and the practices followed by the Basin Development Authority and the National Meteorology Agency in Ethiopia.
Designing and delivering research-into-use programmes in the WASH sphere: Experience from SHARE, REACH and the USRI
This Discussion Paper considers the experience of three ongoing research-into-use programmes (REACH, SHARE and USRI), identifying the major challenges they have faced in achieving research uptake, and discussing strategies theyare using (or might use in future) to overcome those challenges.
Guideline: Selection, training and managing para-hydrologists
This guideline is aimed at technical staff involved in introducing community-based monitoring (CBM) and gives guidance on the selection, training and managing of para-hydrologists to ensure the successful running of CBM.
Guideline: Community-based hydroclimate monitoring: planning, establishing and operating
This guideline, aimed at technical staff involved in introducing community-based monitoring (researchers, development agents and woreda-level experts) provides a step by step procedures on how to plan, establish and operate community-based monitoring.
Sustainable Land Management and its Effects on Water Security and Poverty | Evidence from a Watershed Intervention Program in Ethiopia
This paper, led by IFPRI, investigates the impacts of sustainable land management (SLM) on water security and poverty based on an evaluation of a watershed level SLM program promoted in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia
