Stories of hope
- A woman carrying water in Gonaives, where ACT is helping build reconciliation in the wake of political conflict. Haïti April 2004, © Paul Jeffrey / ACT
Around the world, churches, church-related organizations and their partners are involved in the day-to-day efforts to provide freshwater and sanitation to communities. They also advocate for national and international policies to provide for optimal conditions to make access to water for all a reality. The EWN facilitates an exchange between its members and partners on their struggles and experiences.
We would like to share with you the following stories. Stories of hope, as they show how people work and struggle together to preserve and protect water as a common good, a public trust and treasure, not a commodity like any other.
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Good Practices in water and sanitation
Promoting accountable governance of community water services, making participation count, strengthening community and civil society campaigning for the right to water... On these and other related themes the Ecumenical Water Network and ACT Alliance have made a joint submission of good water and sanitation practices to the United Nation’s Independent Expert on human rights obligations and water and sanitation in Geneva. The practices below have been sent in by members and local partners of the EWN and the ACT Alliance who aim at advancing the realization of human rights as they relate to safe drinking water and sanitation.
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1) “Follow the money!”
Accountable governance of water services at the local level through Public Expenditure Tracking Systems (PETS), Tanzania, Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
2) “Making participation count”
Participatory rural assessment and participatory wealth ranking
Cambodia, Church World Service
3) “From drops to mighty river”
Strengthening and mobilising community and civil society to assert their right to water
India, Church's Auxiliary for Social Action (CASA)
4) “Rooted advocacy for pro-poor water governance”
Enhancing environmental health by mobilizing communities
Bangladesh, Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service (RDRS)
5) “Drinking water, an essential need”
Rehabilitating water supply in rural Armenia
Armenia, Armenia Inter-Church Charitable Round Table Foundation (ART)
6) “Safety in troubled waters”
Water for disaster-affected communities
Pakistan, Church World Service Pakistan / Afghanistan
7) “Working together for water”
Empowering communities to access safe water and improving their environmental health
Bangladesh, Lutheran Health Care Bangladesh
8) “Making water flow”
Community-based resource mobilization
Indonesia, CD Bethesda (Bethesda Community Development)
9) “Springs of life”
Constructing Spring Boxes for Village Water Supplies
Central African Republic, L’Église Evangélique Luthérienne de la République Centrafricaine
10) “Sunny times for water”
A solar-powered gravity water supply scheme
Malawi, Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD)
