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At the IWA Water and Development Congress in December 2023, USAID’s WASH-FIN 2 activity co-convened a session on “Unlocking Climate Finance for Sanitation: The Role of Partnerships,” with the Kenya Water Sector Trust Fund.

• 03/04/2024
• Barbara Kazimbaya-Senkwe

Hundreds of sector practitioners participated in the UN-Habitat’s 5th Congress of the Global Water Operators Partnership Alliance (GWOPA).

• 02/13/2024
• David Favazza, Sumbi M Shimwambwa

USAID is helping catalyze climate finance by providing technical assistance to define and structure climate-resilient, sustainable WASH investments.

• 01/18/2024
• Barbara Kazimbaya-Senkwe

The most visited resources in 2023 cover a range of topics including climate risk management, climate finance, and indicators for climate change and development.

• 12/26/2023
• Jamie Schoshinski

COP27, which concludes in Egypt today, provides an important moment to reflect on the action that USAID has taken over the past year to advance its COP26 commitment, which includes supporting the mobilization of $1 billion in climate-resilient water and sanitation services by 2030.

• 11/18/2022
• Ella Lazarte, Natalie R. Gill

Last year at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, USAID committed to partnering with countries to reduce, avoid, or sequester at least six billion metric tons of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030. (Preventing six billion metric tons of GHG emissions is the equivalent of taking 100 million cars off roads for a decade, or roughly the amount of GHG emissions the United States emits each year). After making the commitment, USAID then codified it as one of its six ambitious goals in the Agency-wide 2022-2030 Climate Strategy. 

• 11/15/2022
• Claire Hubert

As USAID is accelerating its efforts to meet the urgency of global climate change, INVEST is providing support through activities focused on encouraging the flow of private capital toward climate adaptation, resilience, and mitigation. A closer look at three activities — Power Africa in Kenya, ThirdWay Africa Rural Development Corporation in Southern Africa, and USAID Colombia’s Energy for Peace program — demonstrates how USAID is working with the private sector to scale and speed climate actions that result in climate benefits that are equitably shared.

• 05/05/2022
• Robin Young, Carolanne Chanik

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of water and sanitation in safeguarding human security. Through its Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) program, USAID has been helping expand access to finance for water service providers (WSPs).

• 02/11/2022
• Farah Siddique

The agriculture sector across the globe not only feeds the world’s population but it also provides nearly 27 percent of worldwide employment. Yet the sector faces significant sustainability challenges: it is estimated to contribute more than one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions through a combination of agricultural activities and land use changes, and it consumes, on average, 70 percent of the world’s freshwater resources.

• 11/18/2021
• Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security

The ability of the world’s poorest farmers and pastoralists to adapt to a changing climate will affect the food security of millions across the world.

• 02/14/2019
• Nathanial Matthews