With water-related conflicts on the rise, some say water NGOs need to get better at preventing and resolving tensions before they boil over. This piece features Frank van Weert of Wetlands International, talking about the role of NGOs in preventing water-related...

Watershed Ghana partnership received good commendations at the end-of-project event hosted in Accra, Ghana on October 2, 2020. This followed a line-up of interactive presentations by the partners, who took turns to highlight the contributions of the project towards...

A strong civil society is essential for improving water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) /and Water Resource Management (WRM) governance, which remains a challenge in achieving universal access to sustainable services. In the last 5 years, Watershed empowering...

  The Netherlands Ambassador to Ghana, Ron Strikker has expressed great satisfaction at the commitment shown by the Ghanaian government and civil society organizations (CSOs) to improving water and sanitation conditions in the country over the past five years....

Strong civil society leaders share how they are fighting to bring safe water and sanitation to their communities. For the past five years, the Watershed empowering citizens programme has proudly been championing the voice of civil society. It’s been guided by...

Door slechte verantwoording en langs elkaar heen werkende stakeholders in de watersector kampte de Ugandese Albert Water Management Zone – een bestuurs-unit van het Ministerie van Water en Milieu – jarenlang met slechte resultaten. Maar nu overheidsinstanties,...

Limited levels of accountability and duplication of activities by water actors led to suboptimal results in the Albert Water Management Zone for years. This trend has now been broken as government bodies, NGOs, CSOs, communities and private sector players have...

As washing hands with soap and clean water is vital in the fight against COVID-19, government must provide continuous access to sufficient water to their populations living in the most vulnerable conditions. The Government of Bangladesh also promulgated that...

As of 6 May 2020 Watershed is organising a series of dialogues on Facebook. We will host discussions on the linkages between water management and drinking water and sanitation across the globe. Here, you can check out different aspects of drinking water, sanitation,...

The Wottazela radio campaign in Fort Portal, Kabarole district in Uganda was run in collaboration with HEWASA, Simavi, IRC and Radio Jubilee. The campaign raised awareness and collected feedback about governance and the management of WASH services and water...

This video records a meeting organised on 1 August 2019 by Uganda Water and Sanitation NGO Network (UWASNET) and IRC Uganda, to inform parliamentarians about the Watershed empowering citizens programme, discuss key issues in WASH and IWRM, and make recommendations...

This video is addressing the faecal sludge management issue in Bamako district by giving the floor to all key actors to highlight their challenges and proposed solutions.