WASH First in Schools: Protecting Children in Informal Settlements with Handwashing Stands, MHM Kits

Highlight: WASH First, a 15 months project funded by Simavi and implemented by WASH Alliance Kenya, installed 20 water tanks, 20 handwashing stands and distributed menstrual health management kits to 825 girls in 15 schools in Nairobi’s Korogocho and Mathare Valley informal settlements.   The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 was a…

National Sanitation Management Policy (NSMP)

  The Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation is developing the National Sanitation Management Policy. The policy intends to establish an enabling policy framework to ensure universal access to equitable and sustainable safely managed sanitation services across the service chain. The sanitation management policy will respond to the prevailing sanitation sector governance, management, regulatory, service…

Water Governance Support Program (WGSP)

Program Duration: 1st February 2021 to 31st November 2021 The Water Governance Programme is supported by the Embassy of Sweden in Kenya. The agency’s main aim is to reduce poverty in the world through the implementation of Sweden’s Policy for Global Development that aims to aims to ensure that people living in poverty and under…

WASH First Testimonials: Households in Mathare and Korogocho Informal Settlements

About WASH First 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. Testimonials Josephine Adhiambo, a 42-year-old single mother of three, resides in Ngomongo village in Korogocho Informal Settlement. She is chronically…

Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC): Lobby, Advocacy and Coordination : 2013 – 2020

This was a 7 year project (2013-2020) in which Wash Alliance Kenya’s mandate was to lobby and advocate for prioritization of water, sanitation and hygiene(WASH)  services to policy makers through policies, programmes and budget allocations . The policy makers in turn are held accountable for their achievements and commitments made in WASH. Achievements Influence the…