Africa civil society
Rewianku’s water challenge and WaterWide's response
Zimbabwean youth organisations defend their right to water
Tanzania government pledges 500 million USD to address the rural water crisis after Media for Community Empowerment journalists air villagers’ concerns
Governments must regain control of the water sector
Zimbabwe's drought: depletion and economic downturn leads to disaster
What is civil society doing to make climate resilience a priority?
Two videos from Sanitation and Water For All explain why civil society organisations working on water and sanitation should make climate resilience a policy priority.
A New Dawn for Choshi Primary School in Rural Zambia
Photo: WaterAid/ Chileshe Chanda
Kenya’s Civil Society Could Use Their New Law to Deliver Safe Water to the Bottom Seven Percent
In November 2017, I was invited to a meeting organised by KEWASNET, a coalition which is a member of End Water Poverty, to discuss Kenya’s WASH CSO advocacy strategy based on the 2016 Kenya Water Act.
Kenyan CSOs were excited about this news; at the same time they were cautious about some aspects of it. This is the situation with most laws written through consultative processes when many interest groups lobby for their constituents.
Civil society showed the way at the 6th Africa Water Week
Recently I was lucky to be a participant, along with a group of nearly 100 civil society representatives, who gathered for the African Civil Society Forum, ahead of the 6th African Water Week in Tanzania.