Ethiopia
Our impact in Ethiopia
Water.org has a strong history of implementing water projects in Ethiopia. Water.org started partnering with regional non-governmental organizations in 2004 and reached 180,000 people with improved water and sanitation access through these community partnerships. In 2015 we began piloting lending for water and sanitation with microfinance institutions.
To date we've reached more than 256,000 people with access to safe water and sanitation in Ethiopia.


Water.org collaborated with government ministries and other development partners in Ethiopia to influence government policy for microfinancing. The first comprehensive water and sanitation policy in Ethiopia, the One WASH National Programme, included a single sentence about the value of microfinance lending for water and sanitation. This was not enough to incentivize widespread lending across the country. As the next phase of the policy was developed, Water.org, along with others, helped develop recommendations that outlined more comprehensive financing strategies and increased microfinance lending for water and sanitation.
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