NGOs
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 […]
The Stone Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Water
The Stone Family Foundation has recently launched a new £100,000 ($157,000) Prize — the Stone Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Water. It is looking to find and support exciting new initiatives focused on improving the quality and access to drinking water in sub-Saharan Africa and South and South East Asia. The Foundation hopes the […]
DFID provides WaterAid £4.2 million annual grant over three years
The UK Department of International Development (DFID) has provided international charity WaterAid with an annual grant of £4.2 million (US$ 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 […]
WaterAid appoints The Good Agency to enhance acquisition creative
WaterAid has appointed fundraising and campaigning communications specialists The Good Agency to help it improve its donor acquisition creative. The agency has been tasked with increasing donor numbers as well as building the international NGO’s brand profile. The Good Agency will work with production partner Eye-to-eye and focus on integration across multiple channels including direct […]
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 […]
Microfinance for water and sanitation: lofty dream or wave of the future?
Katya Jenkins reviews “the latest craze in the creative use of microfinance” – the use of microcredit for the provision of clean water and sanitation – in Microfinance Focus. After examining a number of challenges facing microfinance for water and sanitation, she presents WaterCredit, an initiative of Water.org, as an example of a feasible model […]
Water.org launches WaterCredit.org
The non-profit Water.org, co-founded by Gary White and Matt Damon, has launched WaterCredit.org, an online resource on microfinance in the water and sanitation sector. The new site provides information on the WaterCredit Initiative, which Water.org started in 2003 and now operates in India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Uganda. The web site has a list of links to […]
World Bank and US Government sign water MoU, Conrad Hilton Foundation and Coca Cola pledge US$ 56 million for WASH
To mark World Water Day, 22 March 2011, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed an agreement making it easier for the U.S. Government and World Bank to work together to address global water challenges. While the Bank and the U.S. have partnered before on water issues, this […]
Palestine: World Bank grants US$3 million for Gaza water and sanitation
The World Bank has approved a grant of US$3 million to the Gaza Coastal Municipalities Water Utility (CMWU) to fund cost overruns in the implementation of a US$ 31 million project to improve access and delivery of water and sanitation services to people in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Emergency Water Project (GEWP), which was […]
