Grants
WASHfunders.org
This portal was launched in October 2011 by the US Foundation Center as a collaborative platform for philanthropic foundations that fund water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects around the world. The centre piece is an interactive map showing which foundation funds what where. Currently projects from hundreds of foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates […]
Akvopedia WASH Finance Portal launched by Akvo and IRC
A new free and open source knowledge portal has been launched by Akvo and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. It is designed to help water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) teams achieve sustainable financing throughout the entire life-cycle of WASH services. What WASH costs do I need to finance? How can I finance WASH services […]
Spanish water fund for Latin America drops to US$ 15 million in 2012
The total budget for the Spanish Water and Sanitation Cooperation Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean is forecast to be 15 million Euros compared to 150 million Euros in 2011, says Jaime del Rey Gómez-Morata, head of the fund at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) [1]. As part of its austerity […]
HSBC launches US$ 100 million water partnership with WaterAid, WWF and Earthwatch
British multinational bank HSBC has launched a new US$ 100 million, five year partnership with WaterAid, WWF and the Earthwatch Institute. The HSBC Water Programme will bring safe water and improved sanitation to over a million people; tackle water risks in river basins; and raise awareness about the global water challenge. The programme is backed-up […]
US foundation funding for WASH more than tripled between 2003 and 2010
In recent years, the number of U.S. charitable foundations awarding grants for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects around the world has more than tripled. A new research brief by the Foundation Center, Foundation Funding for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, finds that between 2003 and 2010 this growth in the number of active funders was accompanied […]
African Water Facility Call for Concept Notes on Sanitation Improvement for Urban Poor
The African Water Facility (AWF) has issued a Call for Concept Notes under the urban sanitation theme for the urban poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. The AWF will fund up to ten projects that promise to address the needs and to sustainably improving the sanitation situation of a densely populated urban poor community, or of a […]
DFID provides WaterAid £4.2 million annual grant over three years
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) has provided international charity WaterAid with an annual grant of £4.2 million (US$ 7.8 millon) over three years . The DFID funding will contribute towards WaterAid bringing clean water to 6.8 million people and reaching almost 10 million people with access to sanitation by 2014. The second and third […]
Sanitation innovation grants: USAID and Gates Foundation announce US$ 17 million WASH for Life programme
USAID and the Gates Foundation are collaborating to seek, test, and scale innovative solutions for water, sanitation, hygiene. To support promising new approaches in the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) sector, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with co-funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing WASH for Life. Over the next […]
Reinventing the toilet: Gates Foundation launches new sanitation strategy and grants
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced the launch of their new sanitation strategy and US$ 42 million in new sanitation grants at the 2011 AfricaSan 3 conference in Kigali, Rwanda on 19 July 2011. “No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation […]
Spanish Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation launches new web site
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID, has launched a new website (in Spanish only) for its Cooperation Fund for Water and Sanitation, a financing instrument that supports water and sanitation initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Launched on 7 June 2011, it provides detailed information about the fund and is set to host a […]
