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Title
WaterAid - Improving water and sanitation
governance through citizen's action
Abstract
For some people, the water crisis means having to walk long distances every day to fetch enough
drinking water - clean or unclean - just to get by. For others, it means suffering from malnutrition
or disease caused by droughts, floods or inadequate sanitation. Many people suffer these
hardships due to lack of funds or inadequate knowledge of how to solve local water use and
allocation problems.
WaterAid Nepal and its partners are
supporting initiatives to improve water and
sanitation governance through the Citizens'
action project and budget tracking. Citizens'
action project started in 2004 and now covers
eight rural districts (Dhading, Makawanpur,
Baglung, Ilam, Puythan, Gulmi, Baitadi and
Dang), three municipalities/small towns
(Thimi, Bharatpur and Biratnagar) and the
Kathmandu Valley. Project activities are
designed to make service providers
responsive and accountable for providing
services in a sustainable and equitable
manner. Constructive engagement and
bridging the gap between service providers
(government and NGOs), donors and the
communities that they serve are fundamental
to these initiatives.
It is the belief that the ultimate responsibility
lies with the government to ensure the
provision of water and sanitation services to
people who need them. Civil society's role is
to effectively realise these services and to
raise its voice when appropriate services are
lacking. Citizens' action continues to exert
pressure, through advocacy and lobbying, to
bring about good governance in terms of both
programming and financing.
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