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Currently, 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation and 1.1 billion people lack safe water. As a result 2.2 million children aged less than five die from diarrhoeal diseases each year. Women and children in poorer countries spend hours each day collecting and carrying water. The weight of water carried can be more than 25 kilograms.
Lack of sanitation is a major global crisis. While progress has been promised, with Millennium Development Goal 7 committing governments to halving the number of people without access , the reality on the ground is scandalous - with around one in thr... |
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A joint briefing paper has been produced by the Public Policy Team, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and some Tearfund partners. The groups have been working together over the past year to research the blockages to better to sanitation at bo... |
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A case study from south-west Uganda, by Richard C Carter and Ronnie Rwamwanja, August 2006 |
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Governments' failure to tackle the global water crisis is threatening goals to halve poverty. This report sets out the scale of the problem, and the actions required if the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation is not going to become j... |
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The EU Water Initiative, launched in 2002, was hailed as the EU's "main contribution" to meeting the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation. However, the Initiative has proved little more than a talking shop and progress has been extreme... |
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It is vital that governments and donors are held to account for the promises they have made. For organisations that are new to advocacy issues, we would recommend reading Tearfund’s guide to advocacy on water and sanitation. |
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A series of reports looking at more and better financing for the water and sanitation sector. |
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This Tearfund and WaterAid report is the result of two years research into whether the private water sector holds the answer to serving the world's poorest people. |
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This guide, produced jointly by Tearfund and WaterAid, aims to inform and equip NGOs and other civil society organisations to enage with water policy reform processes that involve the private sector. |
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British water companies providing water supplies to developing countries could contribute to international efforts to eradicate poverty whilst improving margins and reducing the risk of failure by adopting the development methods of aid agencies, cla... |
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