WASH Seminar Series
World Vision is excited to announce our second annual WASH Research and Learning Seminar Series. Building on our 2021-2025 WASH Research and Learning Agenda and our approach of promoting Implementation Research with long-term partnerships between our implementing offices and academic/technical partners, we will host a series of three seminars focused on lessons learned from reaching one million people with clean water in Rwanda; staff capacity building for improved research and programme quality; and area-wide approaches for improving sanitation and hygiene coverage.
Participants will include World Vision staff, representatives from our learning partners from leading academic institutions, and other sector-leading partners working on different technical topics.
French and Spanish translation will be available for all sessions. To register for each seminar, see the details below:
Universal Service Coverage: Lessons learned from reaching a million people with clean water and implications for replication
September 11, 10:00-11:15am Eastern US Time
In 2018, World Vision set out on an ambitious task to reach everyone in the areas we work in Rwanda with clean water access. Now, a few months after finishing that goal, we are looking back at the elements of success and what lessons we learned that have caused us to think differently about similar efforts in other contexts. Join us to hear from our Rwandan staff and to discuss what we continue to learn from our programming in Rwanda.
For more information about these efforts in Rwanda, click here.
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People First: Supporting implementation research and programme quality through a capacity building partnership
September 25, 10:00-11:15am Eastern US Time
For more than a decade, World Vision, Drexel University, the Desert Research Institute at the University of Nevada, Reno have partnered to build the capacity of World Vision (WV) field staff. As part of their studies, WV staff complete a capstone research project in their context that is directly applicable to their day-to-day work. We will have staff members from around the globe present on the problems they identified, how they used implementation research approaches to diagnose and address these challenges, and how they have been able to integrate these approaches to improve ongoing programming.
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Area-Wide Sanitation and Hygiene: Evidence-based approaches to equitable and sustainable implementation at scale
October 9, 10:00-11:15am Eastern US Time
When World Vision began developing a new Sanitation and Hygiene strategy targeting at minimum basic sanitation, there was little guidance or evidence about achieving district-level universal coverage. We now have results of partnerships with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences on the challenges of implementing a district-wide sanitation and hygiene programme utilising both Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and the Care Group approach. iDE will be sharing results and next steps from investments in Burundi, Mozambique, Zambia and Ghana aiming to develop and scale market-based approaches, with particular focus on consumer research/identifying target groups, developing "packaged products," and household-level financing. Finally, we will conclude with an overview of the resulting final strategy and learning priorities moving forward.
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