The strategy involves ambitious targets such as providing a further 25 million poor people with safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene by 2015, and reaching 100 million more through a commitment to influencing the policies and practices of governments and service providers.
The organisation hopes to significantly extend its reach by aiming to work in 13 new, developing countries.
The strategy also looks at some of the key challenges ahead for WaterAid, such as how to access socially marginalised groups within communities, rapid urbanisation, increasingly stressed water resources and a changing and unpredictable climate.
According to WaterAid’s UK chief executive, Barbara Frost: “These are challenging times for everyone but communities in the developing world need help to break the cycle of poverty more than ever. It’s simply unacceptable that 4,000 children continue to die on a daily basis because they don’t have access to safe water and sanitation.
“WaterAid will continue to call for water, and in particular sanitation, to be prioritised by decision-makers at all levels as, with the right political will, we believe that our vision of a world where everyone has access to these basic human rights is achievable.
WaterAid’s four main strategic aims over the next six years are as follows:
Source: WaterAid
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