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The Rural Water Supply Network has over 12000 members in more than 150 countries, working to get safe water to everyone, forever.

🌍💧🌡️ Climate resilience commitments are everywhere. Turning them into practical action for WASH is the harder part.Next ...
05/11/2026

🌍💧🌡️ Climate resilience commitments are everywhere. Turning them into practical action for WASH is the harder part.

Next Tuesday, join us to hear how implementers and funders are doing exactly that:

𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴

📅 Tuesday, 10 November | 15:00-16:30 CET | 17:00-18:30 EAT | 09:00 EST
🌐 English, with French and Spanish interpretation
📌 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_svj19RrwQZuH1SDTK1hzcA #/registration

The session introduces two new resources, the Guidance note for implementers and the Guidance note for funders, along with the free WASH Systems Academy course on climate-resilient WASH. Three implementers share how they approach in their organisations, programmes and wider systems, and a funders’ panel discusses how priorities and practices can better support them.

Meet our speakers!

🔹 Will Tillett, Global WASH Advisor, Self Help Africa (organisational level)
🔹 Gbandan Blessing Francis, Stakeholder and Governance Relations Manager, Saha Global (programme level)
🔹 Cate Nimanya, Regional Director for Africa, Water For People (systems level)
🔹 Louis Boorstin, Managing Director, Osprey Foundation (funders’ panel)
🔹 Jennifer Wegbreit, CEO, Shockwave Foundation (funders’ panel)
🔹 Moderated by Elise Jabagi, Director of Climate and Finance, Aguaconsult

Get ready for the discussion - check out these resources:

📙 Guidance note for implementers: https://www.aguaconsult.co.uk/library/a-practical-guide-for-ngos-to-drive-impact%2C-collaboration%2C--and-scalability

📗 Guidance note for funders: https://www.aguaconsult.co.uk/library/investing-in-climate-resilient-wash%3A-

🎓 WASH Systems Academy course: https://washsystemsacademy.org/mod/page/view.php?id=20883

Skat Foundation, | Global Water Center, Riva, BASEflow, CAWST

🎓🚰 Training ends when the project does. What keeps rural water services running after that?Rural water and sanitation de...
04/11/2026

🎓🚰 Training ends when the project does. What keeps rural water services running after that?

Rural water and sanitation depend on professional, accountable institutions, from national regulators to district water offices to community operators. But capacity is often thin, staff turnover is high and political cycles reset priorities. Real change takes 10 to 20 years, not one 5-year project.

Join Session 3 of the Enabling Environments for Rural Water and Sanitation webinar series by the SIRWASH Program:

𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆

🗓️ Wednesday, 18 November | 09:00 EST (Washington DC) / 15:00 CET (Geneva) / 17:00 EAT (Nairobi)
🌐 English, French, Spanish and Portuguese
👉 Register now: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0_Qk_J0vTX6ps45vIh5IFA #/registration

Three countries, three models:

🔸 Brazil: how SISAR in Ceará brings rural communities together under shared, professional management
🔸 Nigeria: linking capacity building to measurable performance through SURWASH
🔸 Benin: what it takes for private operators to deliver rural water services

Full series details: https://rural-water-supply.net/en/rwsn-activities/webinars

World Bank Group | Inter-American Development Bank | Skat Foundation |

🌍🏭🚰 Africa’s water challenge is no longer just about raising capital. It’s about building the industry that can deliver ...
29/10/2026

🌍🏭🚰 Africa’s water challenge is no longer just about raising capital. It’s about building the industry that can deliver at scale.

On Tuesday 3 November, join us for a 90-minute Executive Policy, Industry & Investment Dialogue:

𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘀𝘁-𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

📅 3 November 2026 | 14:00-15:30 CET | 16:00-17:30 EAT
🌐 English & French
📋 Organised by the RWSN Leave No One Behind Theme

Despite billions invested, 2.1 billion people still lack safely managed drinking water, and rural, low-income communities face the highest barriers. is our reality. It’s time to stop treating water only as a social service and start building a competitive, localised water industry.

Government, industry, banks and development finance on how to build a water sector that scales and reaches the last mile: local manufacturing, smarter procurement, digital utilities, and bankability.

🎙️ Meet our speakers:
🔹 Regina Ombam, Principal Secretary, State Department for Trade, Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry, MITI, Kenya
🔹 Adam Questad, Strategy Lead Water Access & Sustainability, Grundfos
🔹 Sachin Dhanani, Director, Danco Capital Limited
🔹 Christine Amira, Government & Public Affairs, Wilo Group
🔹 Stacey Nyandiko, Global WASH Impact Lead, Xylem
🔹 Mwanzia Kasalu, Relationship Manager Water & Sanitation, Co-operative Bank of Kenya
🔹 Dickson Marira, CEO, Wonderkid Multimedia
🔹 Christopher Mutasa, Lead Investments & Operations Officer, African Development Bank Group
🎤 Convened and moderated by Euphresia Luseka, Co-Thematic Lead, RWSN

👉 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4JfIKUeCTUy9bhkRsSH7WQ #/registration

Discover other webinars in this series: https://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/rwsn-activities/webinars

Skat Foundation,

October’s newsletter is here, and there is a lot to celebrate! 📫🎉🎓 Registrations are open for upcoming RWSN webinars: tw...
20/10/2026

October’s newsletter is here, and there is a lot to celebrate! 📫🎉

🎓 Registrations are open for upcoming RWSN webinars: two series running from October 2026 through January 2027

📖 Better Boreholes, Safer Water: RWSN Story of Change

🏆 Highlights from the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Glasgow, including a special congratulations to Clarissa Brocklehurst, RWSN Chair from 2007 to 2010, on receiving the IWA Global Water Award

👏 Congratulations to Professor Juliet Willetts on her appointment as UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation

📝 New on the RWSN blog

📌 Opportunities, upcoming events, and the latest resources & publications

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is a monthly newsletter prepared by the RWSN Secretariat, featuring program updates, relevant resources and opportunities in the rural water sector, upcoming events, and more.

💬 Have something to share in our next newsletter? Send us a private message!

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💧💰 Finding money for rural water and sanitation is only half the challenge. The other half is making sure it rewards s...
14/10/2026

💧💰 Finding money for rural water and sanitation is only half the challenge. The other half is making sure it rewards services that keep working.

Project-based lending builds infrastructure, but it rarely changes the incentives or institutions that keep services running. Results-based financing, blended finance and performance-linked subsidies can, when governments are ready to use them.

Join Session 2 of the Enabling Environments for Rural Water and Sanitation webinar series by the SIRWASH Program: 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛.

🗓️ Wednesday, 21 October | 09:00 EDT (Washington DC) / 15:00 CEST (Geneva) / 16:00 EAT (Nairobi)
🌐 Live interpretation in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese

Register now 👉 https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CbKP5fjZTmudILB6kBkH4Q #/registration

Cases from Asia, Latin America and Africa:

🔸 Bangladesh: when microfinance becomes a tool for rural sanitation
🔸 Results-based funding: what happens when governments take the lead
🔸 Peru: subsidies that reward services that last
🔸 Zambia: why the government is co-funding water in schools and clinics

See full series details and register for other sessions: https://rural-water-supply.net/en/collaborations/150-sirwash-2-webinar-series

Inter-American Development Bank | World Bank Group | Skat Foundation |

💧🔄️ New blog series: "Change Our Views" - Blog 1 of 4𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 – 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 💞You can't fix ...
01/10/2026

💧🔄️ New blog series: "Change Our Views" - Blog 1 of 4

𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝘂𝗺𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 – 𝗮 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 💞

You can't fix a broken pump without asking why it broke. And you can't fix a broken system without getting the engineering right. That's the premise behind a new four-part series.

In this first blog, social scientist Bethlehem Mengistu (Agenda for Change) sits down with engineers Catherine McManus (The Water Project) and Kerstin Danert (Ask for Water) to talk through where their work overlaps and where it doesn't.

One concern is the quality of infrastructure. The other is the systems (financing, governance, monitoring) that keep it running. This conversation makes the case that these were never really separate problems: "infrastructure is not separate from the system, it is part of it."

A good read if you've ever felt torn between fixing what's in front of you and fixing what's underneath it 🛠️

📖 Read Blog 1: https://rwsn.blog/2026/09/16/change-our-views-blog-1-fixing-pumps-and-perceptions-a-systems-love-story/

🚰📢 Announcing the new webinar series: Enabling Environments for Rural Water and SanitationWhat does it really take for r...
23/09/2026

🚰📢 Announcing the new webinar series: Enabling Environments for Rural Water and Sanitation

What does it really take for rural WASH services to scale and last? Over four sessions, the Rural WASH Community of Practice, bringing together Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank Group (African Water Facility), Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank Group, will unpack the policies, institutions, capacities, and financing that build a true enabling environment for rural water and sanitation.

Join us for 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭: 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆

🗓️ 30 September | 09:00 CEST (Geneva) / 10:00 EAT (Nairobi) / 15:00 PHST (Manila)

📍 Hosted by ADB Water

This session looks at how innovative financing and partnerships open space for locally relevant innovation in rural water supply, with experiences from Georgia, Cambodia, and Colombia.

👉 Register now: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lhvpkHcuTNeglSn0rCM_Ig

Full series details and updates on upcoming sessions: https://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/collaborations/150-sirwash-2-webinar-series

Stay tuned for Sessions 2, 3, and 4 on financing and incentives, capacities and institutions, and the water-energy-food nexus.

Skat Foundation |

🚰 What does innovation in rural water supply really look like?Not just new technology, new ways to shape policy, invol...
21/09/2026

🚰 What does innovation in rural water supply really look like?

Not just new technology, new ways to shape policy, involve communities, and structure partnerships so solutions actually fit local contexts and last.

Join Session 1 of Enabling Environments for Rural Water and Sanitation webinar series by the SIRWASH Program - 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆, hosted by the Asian Development Bank.

🗓️ Wednesday, 30 September | 09:00 CEST (Geneva) / 10:00 EAT (Nairobi) / 15:00 PHST (Manila)

👉 Register now: https://adb-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lhvpkHcuTNeglSn0rCM_Ig

Three pitches, three regions:

🇬🇪 Maria Pia Ancora, PhD (ADB) on the Clean, Local, Equitable Access to Reliable Water Program, Georgia

🇨🇴 Leonellha Barreto Dillon (IDB) on Open Innovation in Rural Water and Sanitation, Antioquia, Colombia

🇰🇭 Samol YA (ADB) on the Rural WASH Improvement Sector Development Program, Cambodia

Hosted at ADB e-Marketplace, part of the wider SIRWASH webinar series.

Inter-American Development Bank | Asian Development Bank | Skat Foundation |

Rural water sector updates are here! Here's what's inside our September newsletter:🌍 RWSN at recent conferences: Kigali ...
17/09/2026

Rural water sector updates are here! Here's what's inside our September newsletter:

🌍 RWSN at recent conferences: Kigali & Stockholm, plus reflections from the Africa Food Systems Forum
📖 New RWSN Report: Global Mapping of Young (Rural) Water Professionals Development Programmes
🔧 Stop the Rot: New research on groundwater chemistry and corrosion
📢 Call for Expression of Interest: Life-Cycle Costing Consultant, Zambia
📰 What's new in the rural water sector: opportunities, upcoming events, and the latest resources & publications

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is a monthly newsletter prepared by the RWSN Secretariat, featuring program updates, relevant resources and opportunities in the rural water sector, upcoming events, and more.

💬 Have something to share in our next newsletter? Send us a private message!

📩 To receive the newsletter in your email, join our community here: https://dgroups.org/rwsn

📖📊 New report: Are we equipping the next generation of water professionals and are we doing it equitably?This Global Bas...
16/09/2026

📖📊 New report: Are we equipping the next generation of water professionals and are we doing it equitably?

This Global Baseline Report by Temple Chukwuemeka Oraeki Oraeki, our LNOB Co-Lead, maps 82 programmes worldwide dedicated to developing young and early-career water professionals and is the first attempt to bring this fragmented landscape into one picture.

A few findings that stood out:

🌍 Programme reach is fairly balanced between the and South but administration isn't. 68% of programmes are run out of the Global North, even where participants are global.

💧 Only 12% of programmes explicitly focus on rural water, despite rural water professionals facing some of the sector's most distinctive challenges.

🚰 Sanitation is even more overlooked: just one programme in the entire mapping targets young sanitation professionals specifically.

💸 Over half of all programmes depend on a single donor or funding source, which is a real risk as ODA continues to decline.

The report closes with five priorities: build dedicated rural-water pathways, connect to real , strengthen ownership of flagship programmes, diversify financing, and connect what already exists so can actually find it.

🔗 Read the full report: https://www.rural-water-supply.net/en/resources/1385-mapping-young-rural-water-professionals-development-programmes-across-the-globe

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