Rural Water Finance - REACH

In Africa and Asia, at any one time, 1 in 4 waterpoints are not working - when this happens, people must turn to dirtier, more distant, or more expensive sources with all the risks and costs involved. Professor Rob Hope (University of Oxford), Monirul Alam (UNICEF), Mr L.K. Atheeq (Government of Karnataka, India), and Iris Braun (share) present REACH programme work in Bangladesh, India, and Kenya to build results-based funding models for rural water services which incentivise effective maintenance.
Read more in three REACH Stories of Change:
Progress to deliver safe drinking water services to 100 million rural people by 2030
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/site...
The Safe Pani model: Delivering safe drinking water in schools and healthcare centres in Bangladesh
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/site...
Scaling up results-based funding for rural water service
www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/site...
REACH is a global research programme to improve water security for the poor by delivering world-class science that transforms policy and practice. REACH is led by Oxford University with international consortium of partners and funded with UK Aid from the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. Visit reachwater.uk/ to find out more.
Image credits: Women working on a well in Gayo Village, Ethiopia - Martchan/Shutterstock], Sonia Hoque, Rob Hope, Anita Ghosh, Luftor Rahman, FundiFix Ltd, Tim Foster, Alice Chautard, Cliff Nyaga, ILRI/Stevie Mann, UPGro, Katrina Charles, Grace Remington.