WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE (WASH) AND WATER GOVERNANCE
Through the Kalinjor Water Supply Scheme constructed in Sarlahi district, people like Chandra Kala Thapa (above) and 4000 other people (700 households) are getting water closer to their houses. Photo by: Prerana Marasini/Oxfam
The goal of this programme is to address water insecurity for poor, socially excluded and vulnerable women and men, and achieve systemic change for sustainable and equitable access to water and sanitation. For this, we identify the reasons why people cannot safely access, afford or maintain them. We seek to support them through: policy change in the form of new or improved water law policies and regulatory systems for institutional accountability; pro-poor finance products and technical solutions for ease of maintenance; affordable service agreements with both formal and informal providers and local governance.
To achieve these goals, Oxam takes a system-based approach, identifying the technical, institutional and economic barriers to creating sustainable access to water and sanitation services. Oxfam adopts a holistic water resources management approach to bring water security to marginalized and vulnerable communities with a disaster and climate resilient WASH programme. Syadul Bhalinatar Water Supply System under construction in Dhading district to provide clean water for 188 families. Photo by: Punit Raj Shrestha/Oxfam
Oxfam in Nepal has helped more than
250,000
people with drinking facilities either by constructing new or renovating old water supply schemes, providing financial and technical support to construct toilets, helping them harvest rain water and utilizing waste water. 154,204 people in three provinces got access to household latrines with support provided to construct
30,841 toilets
Working areas: Rautahat, Sarlahi, Nuwakot, Dhading, Gorkha, Lalitpur, Kanchanpur, Dadeldhura, Baitadi, Darchula