WAWI is a partnership of 13 international bodies involved in community development with additional agency acting in a technical consulting capacity.
The current members of the alliance represent a broad spectrum of institutional types, including a private foundation, a bilateral donor, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), universities, a public international organization and a non-profit private sector industry association. All the member organizations have broad international reach and significant strengths to bring to the table. The Initiative is collaborating closely with governments (including government institutions) and other local actors who are core participants at all stages of activity design, implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation to ensure sustainability of the impact of water-related investments by public and private actors alike.
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation is a private charitable foundation devoted to the alleviation of human suffering and provision of humanitarian assistance in the United States and abroad, focusing on areas including blindness, early childhood development, domestic violence, and homelessness. The Foundation is the primary external donor and will serve an important coordination and oversight role for its grantees. Since the 1990s, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (CNHF) has provided financial support to World Vision Ghana for rural water and sanitation programs.
Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development, a research and academic institution, will support community mobilization and water development in the context of sound natural resources management, pursuing action research and pilot activities in sustainable agriculture, environmental protection, and rural development.
Desert Research Institute, a research and academic institution, will undertake hydrogeologic analysis and modeling for well siting and water source sustainability.
Helen Keller International, saves the sight and lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged by combating the causes and consequences of blindness and malnutrition through establishing programs based on evidence and research in vision, health and nutrition. HKI coordinates with other WAWI partners in Mali and Niger in the execution of hygiene and trachoma prevention activities.
International Trachoma Initiative, is dedicated to the elimination of blinding trachoma around the world, through the promotion of the ''SAFE'' strategy (Surgery, Antibiotics, Face-washing and Environmental change). ITI collaborates with WaterAid and other WAWI partners to prevent trachoma.
Lions Clubs International Foundation, the grant-making arm of a worldwide private voluntary service club organization, will provide funding and in-country volunteers to carry out a targeted trachoma prevention campaign in Mali as part of its blindness program.
The Carter Center, is a nonpartisan and nonprofit center that addresses national and international issues in public policy. The Center in partnership with Emory University and with funding from UNICEF will enable the Center to support limited monitoring of WAWI activities in Guinea Worm endemic villages in Ghana, Mali and Niger as well as the Center’s assisted Trachoma endemic villages in Mali.
UNICEF is an international organization within the United Nations system committed to helping children living in poverty in developing countries. It works in several priority areas of action including water and environmental sanitation. The organization will focus its efforts on rural school-based sanitation and hygiene, well rehabilitation and alternative water source development, and advocacy and enabling environment activities.
United States Agency for International Development, a bilateral assistance agency, will provide additional donor funding to WAWI partners and help strengthen the integrated water resources management orientation of the Initiative through support to areas including livelihoods and income generation, policy and enabling environment, gender mainstreaming and hydrologic information management in both rural and peri-urban settings.
WaterAid is a private U.K. charity dedicated to the provision of domestic water, sanitation and hygiene promotion for the world's poorest people. It will be the principal implementer of peri-urban water supply and sanitation efforts within WAWI, in addition to supporting rural sanitation and hygiene capacity building and outreach.
Winrock International is a nonprofit organization environment and development organization. It will work with the Desert Research Institute to provide capacity building to strengthen government hydrologic management systems.
World Chlorine Council is a global network of national and regional trade associations and their member companies representing the chlorine chemistry industry. It will provide a product donation of PVC pipe for tubewells, chlorine disinfection, and outreach materials in the target communities.
World Vision, a Christian relief and development organization, will take the lead in well drilling, pump installation and alternative water source development, along with community mobilization to facilitate local ownership and sustainable management of systems. It will also establish a broad-based regional training program to support "hardware" and "software" components of the overall initiative for WAWI partners and counterparts.
In addition to these core partners, the Initiative works with ARD Inc. which assists USAID in the implementation of the activities it sponsors.
WAWI partners are committed to working together as a well-orchestrated and tightly coordinated group of organizations with combined resources and complementary skills—leveraging funding from public and private sources, gaining cost efficiencies, increasing advocacy power with government policy makers, and learning from one another's experiences to develop more innovative and effective models of action on the ground.
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WAWI is not a grant-making alliance and will not consider unsolicited proposals for assistance. The partnership is flexible, however, and may consider expansion both within West Africa and to new geographic areas over time. Institutions with resources and interest in collaboration in West Africa or elsewhere, are encouraged to contact individual WAWI partners or send an e-mail to: jean-baptiste_kamate@wvi.org
NB: Acknowledgement – updated from www.waterforthepoor.org .
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