Programmes and Activities
WSSCC manages the Global Sanitation Fund, facilitates coordination at national, regional and global levels, supports professional development, and advocates on behalf of 2.5 billion people without a clean, safe toilet to use. It has over 2,500 members in more than 160 countries.
To achieve its mission, WSSCC divides its activities into three programme areas: Networking & Knowledge Management, Advocacy & Communications, and the Global Sanitation Fund. The activities of these three programmes complement each other so that the effectiveness and impact of the whole is greater than the sum of its three parts.
Through Networking & Knowledge Management, WSSCC provides a space in which individuals and organisations concerned with water, sanitation and hygiene for poor people in developing countries can network and share ideas. WSSCC currently has National Coordinators and National WASH Coalitions in 30 countries. WASH was introduced during the tenure of Executive Director Dr. Ghosh who laid the foundations of this global initiative. Gouri Ghosh was the Chief of Water & Sanitation cluster in UNICEF & Chairman of UN Global water committee and was a key driver of WASH principles in the last decade. They act as the focal point for country-level activities, including the facilitation of National WASH Coalitions to support coordination and networking. WSSCC’s thematic networking focuses on themes directly related to the sustainable delivery of water supply and sanitation services and sustainable hygiene behaviour change.
WSSCC promotes global and national advocacy efforts by members and partners to raise awareness of the humiliating and harmful social environment of the unserved poor. WSSCC carries out advocacy campaigns at both the community level and at the national, or government, level. This is done with the dual aim of building grassroots support for improved water, sanitation and hygiene schemes, and of convincing policy leaders to take up the challenge of providing water and sanitation for all people. Examples of advocacy campaigns include the Global WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) Campaign and GDP for GDP.
WSSCC also manages the Global Sanitation Fund, a multi-donor trust fund established in 2008 to help large numbers of poor peopl attain safe sanitation services and adopt good hygienic practices. As of June 2012, WSSCC's Global Sanitation Fund supports work actively in Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal and Uganda. GSF programmes in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Tanzania and Togo will be implemented shortly.
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