The REACH-RWSN 100M initiative is launching a survey open to rural water service providers globally to inform results-based funding. Open until 25 June.
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Building a better future for women by improving water in Kenyan schools
Nancy Gladstone, Professor Rob Hope, Dr Johanna Koehler, Florence Tanui, Cliff Nyaga, Dr Jacob Katuva This blog is based on research from REACH and the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership - read the full report. Today is International Women’s Day which...
Monitoring socio-climatic interactions to improve rural water security in Africa
Rainfall variability and socioeconomic shocks pose a revenue risk to rural water services across Africa. A new paper by Andrew Armstrong et al. explores how water usage data combined with climate information can be used to generate warning signals of revenue risk and to improve policy response.
Regulating rural drinking water services to manage risks and deliver safe water in Bangladesh
This blog discusses key findings from a journal article recently published in Global Environmental Change, as well as policy recommendations from a policy paper available in English and in Bangla.
New funding to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia
New funding from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) will support REACH to improve water security for 10 million people in Africa and Asia.
Can rural people pay for water in a crisis?
On 9th June, REACH and UNICEF co-organised a webinar on how to measure water affordability and improve policy response during the COVID19 pandemic, hosted by RWSN. In this blog, they share five key lessons from the online event.
Water security in times of crisis: how COVID-19 is impacting the rural poor in Bangladesh and Kenya
This blog, based on interviews led by our colleagues in coastal Bangladesh and rural Kenya, discusses the challenges faced by local water users and managers in the midst of the coronavirus.
How finance and institutions are shaping global water thinking
This year’s World Water Week in Stockholm recognised the importance of finance and institutions in shaping global priorities for water policy and practice. Early Career Researchers Dr Sonia Hoque, Dr Johanna Koehler and Cliff Nyaga share their insights on these themes.
How does the media construct public risk narratives and shape responses to water insecurity?
A new article published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers explores how drinking water risks have been constructed and have evolved in the Bangladeshi media since the 1980s.
REACH Early-Career Researcher Feature: Improving water security for the rural poor in fragile environments
Cliff Nyaga, Research Manager for REACH in the Kitui Observatory (University of Oxford), discusses how his research aims to address the water services maintenance gap in rural Kenya.
