article / March 21, 2024
Water Day: Preventing Conflicts over Water Resources
Water Day 2024: World Vision promotes the role of water in preventing water-related conflict in West Africa. This situation is exacerbated by the increase in insecurity, which is a constraint on access and resource use patterns.
article / January 24, 2024
Refugee Teachers: An Overlooked Resource for Peace
Refugee Teachers: An Overlooked Resource for Peace
publication / January 19, 2024
WASH in Fragile Contexts Project Summary
A fragile context is a geographic area where political and social pressures make people vulnerable to conflict and fracture institutions that should protect them. It is often characterised by violence and instability that impact social, political, and economic life. Additionally, fragile contexts face environmental challenges and climate change such as recurring natural disasters, flooding, or drought.
This project aims to document how to deliver high-quality WASH services in fragile contexts and to assess short-term and longer-term effects of high levels of coverage of these WASH services on fragility, vulnerability, and resilience. These projects are being implemented in Bangladesh, Burundi, and Mozambique, each facing a unique combination of fragility ranging from remote cyclone-prone hilly regions in Bangladesh, to extremely low-income drought-and-flood affected districts in Mozambique. This diversity of location allows World Vision to better document and demonstrate the impact of focused programming within the project itself, as well as translate these learnings to improve WASH implementation in other fragile contexts for both World Vision and the broader sector.
article / March 21, 2024
Journée de l'eau : Prévenir les conflits liés aux ressources en eau
Journée de l'eau 2024 : World Vision promeut le rôle de l'eau dans la prévention des conflits liés à l'eau en Afrique de l'Ouest.
publication / January 17, 2024
Improved WASH Governance and Financing to Reach Universal Coverage in Indonesia
With the introduction of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, World Vision in Indonesia has taken collaborative and bold steps with the government of Indonesia and other development partners to actively work toward achieving the ambitious targets for universal and equitable access to WASH services for all by 2030. World Vision supports government ministries to develop policies, national guidelines, and other WASH-related learning modules and tools, as well as facilitating advocacy events and trainings to improve WASH access.'
Given sector-wide challenges with the long-term functionality of rural and small-town water supply services, World Vision has doubled-down on strengthening management systems. World Vision, with a focus on sustainability, empowers, trains, and strengthens water committees in matters of community organization and participation, administration (payment of fees), operation and maintenance of the water systems, and protection of microwatersheds, with the objective that the water committee will manage, operate, and maintain the water systems independently.
article / March 18, 2024
Access to water brings new era of hope
Influx of water offered more than just physical relief – but brought a new era of hope. Once chained by a lack of access to clean water, the community now looks to a better future.
press release / March 11, 2024
World Vision Lambast International Response as Humanitarian Crisis in Syria Continues to Grow 13 Years On
Syria 13 Press Release- Lost and Alone
publication / January 19, 2024
Universal Access to WASH in Rwanda
Over the past two decades, water service coverage levels have been steadily increasing in Rwanda, though significant gaps remain in many rural communities. In 2018, World Vision committed to reaching 1 million people with access to clean drinking water with the goal of reaching everyone in the areas World Vision works in Rwanda by 2023, through scaling up programming in Rwanda’s most underserved areas. Through the collective effort of a government-led network of actors, achievement of universal water coverage in the 39 sectors (sub-districts) prioritised by World Vision was achieved in 2023.