Sticky Toilet Use
By Kate Fogelberg, Springfield Centre From Susan Davis: I’m thrilled to have a guest blog from Kate. We got to know each... Read More
Survey: WASH in Healthcare Facilities
Sharing from Global Health Council “A recent WHO and UNICEF report presents a global assessment of the extent to which health care... Read More
2016 Survey on WASH Donor Restrictions and Sustainability
By Susan Davis, Executive Director If you work for a development organization involved in water, sanitation, and/or hygiene interventions, we invite you... Read More
Kampala WASH Symposium: Recognizing the Role of Governments in Sustainable WASH Systems
By Susan Davis, Executive Director, Improve International Last month, I went to one day of the Kampala WASH Symposium. The theme was... Read More
Overcoming barriers to system-wide action in the WASH sector
By Improve International To view descriptions of all the side events, click here. To register for the WEDC Ghana conference, click here.
What is a dead end in your field?
By Susan Davis, Executive Director I’ve really been enjoying reading “Demand” a journal published by ASME / Engineering for Change (E4C). The... Read More
Seeking Sanitation Success
By Susan Davis, Executive Director Download the full Seeking Sustained Sanitation Successes report (English) The sanitation sector has evolved over decades. Yet,... Read More
Monitoring, Evaluation, Resolution, Learning (MERL) Technical Note
Victoria Calderon, Catherine Nguyen, Jordan Teague, Elynn Walter (all of WASH Advocates) and Susan Davis (Improve International) present the MERL Technical Note!... Read More
What is Sanitation Success?
by Susan M. Davis, Executive Director During a recent desk review, we found there is no one widely accepted definition of sanitation... Read More
World Water Day or Groundhog Day?
By Susan Davis, Executive Director Tuesday March 22 was World Water Day. But to me, it felt like Groundhog Day (the movie). ... Read More
Guest Blog: Re-launch of the Water Point Data Exchange
by Brian Banks, Global Water Challenge Over the past decade, a dramatic shift has taken place in the international water sector that... Read More
Defecate where you donate
By Susan Davis, Executive Director On a recent trip, a colleague told a story about visiting a rural community with representatives of... Read More
Mistakes to Successes: Learning from Errors
by Susan Davis, Executive Director In August 2015, I was in Stockholm for World Water Week. I was surprised and excited to... Read More
Resources on Supply Chains for Water & Sanitation
Updated April 4, 2016 Water points in developing countries fail and fall into disuse at high rates, in part due to the... Read More
What WASH can learn from the Game of Thrones
By Susan Davis, Executive Director [This blog is based on a talk Susan gave at FailFest DC on December 10, 2015. If... Read More
Resources on Microfinance for Water & Sanitation
By Susan Davis, Executive Director You might have heard about the wonders of microfinance for helping poor people start or expand small... Read More
Report: Pilot Study on Donor Restrictions & WASH Sustainability
By Susan Davis, Executive Director The Pilot Study on Donor Restrictions & WASH Sustainability report compiles the results of the pilot survey... Read More
UNC Water and Health Conference Event: Resources to Keep the Water Flowing
By Susan Davis, Executive Director with research support from Lydia Prokosch At the UNC Water and Health conference last week, Improve International... Read More
Lessons Not Learned in International Development
Susan Davis wrote this guest blog on ICTWorks based on her lightning talk at MERLTech: The world has made several commitments to... Read More