US Government Resources

WASH

USAID - Rotary International - The partnership between Rotary Internatinoal and USAID is an official Global Development Alliance (GDA), which is an innovative public-private alliance model developed and used by USAID for improving social and economic conditions in developing countries.

USAID Sanitation Working Group - The Sanitation Working Group is committed to providing USAID Field Missions with the resources needed to design and implement cost-effective, sustainable sanitation programs.

USAID Environmental Health - This archived website contains USAID Environmental Health Project reports and links to non-USAID resources.

USAID Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) - This archived website contains reports and other resources produced by HIP.

USAID Water - A resource for information on programs, reports, newsletters and other resources on USAID Water initiatives.

USAID WaterSHED Project - WaterSHED is a unique Global Development Alliance led by the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and supported by USAID’s Regional Development Mission-Asia (RDMA).

US State Department/Water for the Poor - Links to the yearly Water for the Poor reports, newsletters and other resources.

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention/Safewater - Publications and conference presentations of the Safewater household water treatment system.

Publications

USAID Water and Sanitation Sector Profiles for Africa, 2010.  (Each profile discusses the country's WASH sector, donor involvement and provides the latest WASH statisitics.)

• Angola
• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Liberia
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Somalia
• South Africa
• Sudan
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia

Indoor Air Pollution

EPA/Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) - The PCIA website contains issues of the PCIA Newsletter, over 400 partner profiles and other resources.

Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves - The Alliance receives USAID and State Dept. funding to promote public-private partnerships for the production of clean cookstoves.

USAID Energy - USAID works with countries to reduce their overall carbon emissions and address climate change through clean energy and energy efficiency. projects.