💧 Leaving No One Behind: Empowering Communities through Inclusive Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene

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Empowering Communities through Inclusive Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene

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Photo Credit: Dahery Razaka, RANO WASH

Equitable access to water, sanitation, and hygiene is essential to achieving our shared development goals, and supporting the health and dignity of all people. People with disabilities, LGBTQI+ persons, Indigenous Peoples, youth, women, and girls all face unique challenges when it comes to accessing water and sanitation services that meet their specific needs.

At USAID, inclusive development is defined as an equitable development approach built on the understanding that every individual and community, of all diverse identities and experiences, is instrumental in the transformation of their own societies.

Read our new story that highlights three ways USAID is designing sanitation services with inclusivity in mind.

New technical brief: Inclusive Development in Water Security, Sanitation, and Hygiene.

This brief is part of USAID 's Water and Development Technical Series, that provides guidance on important topics for developing and implementing water and sanitation activities in support of the U.S. Government Global Water Strategy and USAID’s plan under the strategy.

This technical brief summarizes ways that practitioners can incorporate inclusive development approaches into activities, programs, research, and partnerships on water security, sanitation, and hygiene.

USAID affirms and celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) people and all people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) as integral parts of every society.

Through the USAID LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development Policy, USAID recommits to its staff, local partners, the international community, other development agencies, and program participants around the world that LGBTQI+ individuals are a vital force in the work we do and that, by embracing an inclusive development approach, we will help our work serve all segments of society.

Through our partnerships and programs, USAID helps ensure that all mothers, newborns, and children have a chance of a healthy life, regardless of where they are born. USAID’s Office Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition within the Bureau for Global Health plays a leading role in supporting the Agency’s commitment of preventing maternal and child deaths: investing in affordable, high-quality interventions that save lives and allow women, children, and families to thrive.

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