WASH and Women’s Health Series

By: Katrina Braxton, Program Assistant, The Wilson Center’s Maternal Health Initiative This post was originally posted on the New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center. The post highlights a…

By: Sarah Blake, MHTF consultant Today, March 22 is World Water Day, an annual UN event that seeks to draw attention to the persistent challenges related to securing clean water for people around the world. As the guest blog series coordinated by WASH…

By: Lisa Schechtman, Head of Policy and Advocacy for WaterAid in America Water is a women’s issue. It’s an important adage, one that highlights how we expect governments to prioritize investments in safe drinking water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and…

The following guest posts provide snapshots of the work of three recipients of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants for work on innovative WASH and gender interventions in India. By Akhila Sivadas,Project Director, Center for Advocacy and…

By: Gemma Bulos, Director, Global Women’s Water Initiative At Amuria High School in Uganda, even though female students live at the school as boarders, perfect attendance is not guaranteed. Girl children are required to fetch water during school hours…

By: Marni Sommer, Executive Director, Grow & Know, Inc.; Susie Connolly, Team Leader for Cambodia, Grow & Know, Inc. The onset of menstruation indicates the passage from girlhood to womanhood in societies around the world. In many low-income…

By: Ashley Holmer, Founder and Executive Director, Red Sweater Project It seems in the developed world we are consistently debating what is the best health care system: public versus private, access versus quality, confidentiality versus national reform…

By: Jordan Teague, Research Assistant, WASH Advocates When I arrived in the village of Bogu in the Northern Region of Ghana, the first thing I saw was a group of women and girls with metal buckets on their head, walking toward us. They were returning…

By: Koronel Mashalla Kema, Program Manager and Technical WASH leader, AMREF Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, he is also a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International. As an engineer with a public health focus working with the African Medical &…

By: Rebecca Fishman, Director of Operations and Special Projects, WASH Advocates This guest post is the first in the series WASH & Women’s Health, which WASH Advocates is coordinating for the MHTF blog. Access to clean water is not only one…