Background WASH Alliance Kenya (WAK), through UNICEF funding and in collaboration with its partners, the MOH, Nairobi county, Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company and communities, implemented WASH intervention to minimize the transmission of COVID- 19 among the targeted population in informal settlements. Specifically, WAK supported COVID -19 response in selected informal settlements including Kibra, Mathare/…
World Toilet Day annually celebrates access to toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. This year the theme remarks the importance of “Sustainable sanitation…
By Tobias Omufwoko | CEO WASH Alliance Kenya Nairobi City County continues to have room for improvement in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) practices and accessibility, with less than half of households in Nairobi City County observing handwashing. According to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014, only 39 percent of households in the capital…
On a hot and humid July afternoon, Jacob Omondi, 67-year-old grandfather, sat in his one-roomed windowless mud-walled house deep in Kibera slum waiting for the other members of his family to come back from their daily jobs around the city. Omondi suffers from a backbone condition that has limited his mobility and confined him in…
Kennedy Ocholla, a father of two living in Githogoro informal settlements of Nairobi with his wife and children, says having a UNICEF-donated handwashing station next to his welding business has helped increase the number of customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. “This handwashing station has helped not only me but my community at large, as you…
Maureen Adisa, a community volunteer in Kibera’s Soweto East area, says handwashing stands she managed next to a boda boda (motorcycle taxis) parking bay was helping hundreds of people passing by on their daily routine. “This handwashing stand has come at the right time when people really need to wash their hands and stay safe…
Kenya’s community health strategy includes a CHW cadre, called community health volunteers (CHVs). The CHV programme began in the early 1970s when community-based health care projects in different parts of the country emerged. Community health workers are an important potential resource for encouraging hygiene behaviour change in high-burden, low-income communities. They provide essential community health…
WASH First is a fifteen months’ project funded by SIMAVI in which WASH Alliance Kenya supports COVID-19 response in two selected informal settlements in Nairobi — Korogocho and Mathare Valley Informal Settlements. Activities Conduct targeted mass awareness creation (use of media, including electronic, print and social media) for behavior change in the community, schools and…
This is an eight months’ project (October 2020 – May 2021) funded by UNICEF in which WASH Alliance Kenya is mobilizing communities to construct and use toilets, a shift from Open Defecation (OD) to Open Defecation Free(0DF) through Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS). It is implemented in Marsabit County (Saku and Moyale sub-counties) and Kilifi County…
This was a four months’ project (May – September 2020) funded by UNICEF in which WASH Alliance Kenya supported COVID-19 response in 4 selected informal settlements namely; Kibera, Mukuru, Githogoro and Mathare/Korogocho. Activities County Government engagement and support of coordination meetings through facilitation during meetings and funding of service delivery (loading and off-loading of supplies).…