Outstanding Mid-Year Report!
This report covers the first six months of the 2nd year of World Vision’s 2021-2025 Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Business Plan. This business plan will enable us to reach a cumulative 35 million people since 2016 and push us closer to completing our commitment to reach a cumulative 50 million people from 2016-2030. We remain on track to achieve this goal.
In the first half of FY22, we met or exceeded our targets by reaching 1,038,224 people with clean water (110% of target), 1,225,867 people with improved sanitation (147% of target), and 1,570,063 people with handwashing facilities (109% of target).
In line with our commitment to deepen our focus on the most vulnerable, nearly 90% of these water participants live in the toughest, most dangerous places to reach. We also reached 225,495 people with emergency water and 47,602 people with emergency hygiene supplies.
The goal of reaching everyone with clean water and sanitation has led 45 districts to adopt coverage plans for water supply and/or sanitation with World Vision support. These plans describe the strategy for reaching everyone within a specific district, and support efforts to meet the needs of women, girls, and others in vulnerable situations.
Another top priority is to empower women. To that end, we saw 1,200 women become active in WASH businesses and 2,624 women trained on advocacy.
Consistent with our business plan goals to increase the level of water service, only 1% of water points were hand pumps, while 17% were community taps, and 82% were household water connections. To improve water system sustainability, we worked with communities to establish and train 2,631 water committees (155% of target).
On top of our efforts to provide clean water for households, we provided 171 health centers and 655 schools with water, and 333 health facilities and 1,679 schools with handwashing stations.
Given the important role of faith leaders as influencers in their communities, we trained 5,663 faith leaders (twice our target) on hygiene and sanitation behaviors.
During the first half of FY22, we continued our focus on ‘Finish the Job’ plans to provide clean water access to everyone, everywhere we work in Rwanda (1 million people by 2023), Zambia (800,000 people by 2025) and Honduras (650,000 people by 2027). We are proud to say our Rwanda effort is on track for completion next year. Zambia requires $50 million over five years from U.S. donors and to date, we have commitments from donors for about half that amount. The Honduras effort was launched most recently, and has commitments for about $10 million of the $60 million needed from U.S. donors.
If you would like to review the results in more detail, you can visit our Power BI dashboard called “Roadmap to Impact”.
Thank you for being part of this effort to bring clean water in the name of Jesus to millions of people.