African Women Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Network (AWWASHNet)

Our aims is to foster women’s leadership and create spaces for debate, discussion and clearer articulation of women’s rights issues in relation to WASH and advocate for governments and donors to increase investments in the sector.

Thematic Areas

AWWASHNet’s work focuses on its three (3) thematic areas: Movement Building, Water Justice Advocacy, and Sanitation and Hygiene.

Movement Building

AWWASHNet emphasizes the importance of participation in and contribution to movement processes, actions and events within and outside Africa

Water Justice Advocacy

AWWASHNet specifically focuses on how women’s rights and access to water are affected by privatization policies, corporatization, and commodification of water

Sanitation and Hygiene

AWWASHNet’s focus will be to build the capacity of its members to carry out communication and hygiene promotion and community-led total sanitation in their various countries…

We provide an Advocacy Platform for Women Activists and WASH Advocates around National, Regional and International

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