Helena Acquah, Head of the Physical Planning Department, and Barima Dankwa Osiakwan, traditional council leader, at a District Level Learning Alliance Platform meeting on gender empowerment at the Asutifi North District Assembly, Ghana.

Learning paper

People, systems and change

Harnessing the power of collective action through the Safe Water Strategy

Lessons and progress from collective action for safe water, sanitation and hygiene in partner districts of six African countries.

Authors

Laura Brunson|Patrick Moriarty|Sára Bori|Ingeborg Krukkert

Member

Riva Global

Resource type

Learning paper

Location

Year

2021

Theme

Collective action

Tags

systems thinking|master plan|district-wide approach|collective action

Publisher

IRC

Publication place

The Hague

This synthesis document shares the story and lessons learned, so far, from collective action by organisations supported by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation's Safe Water Strategy. Together, we are strengthening the systems needed to deliver safe water, sanitation and hygiene services to all households, health care facilities and schools within our 11 partner districts in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Uganda by 2030 and forever. While our collective action takes place at district level, our goal is to inspire replication and wider impact. This note is part of a set of advocacy and outreach materials designed to ensure that what we learn is shared and adopted in more districts in the countries where we work, and in other countries. Read them all here.