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WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE





GCDF promotes sustainable management of water as a natural resource through capacity building, advocacy, awareness raising, information dissemination and strengthening of water management, governance and preservation systems in order to increase access to adequate clean safe water and sanitation facilities to reduce on water borne diseases among rural communities

The WASH program is based on the premise that the hilly topography of many areas of Uganda with no water sources makes it difficult for many people to access gravity flow water. Therefore, Rainwater harvesting continues to be a reliable method of providing access to clean water for many communities, particularly those located in hilly areas away from municipal water distribution infrastructures. Rainwater harvesting tanks provide a simple and relatively low-cost method of water collection that is generally easy to install and maintain.

Under this program, GCDF:

    • Supports and promotes Domestic / Households and communal rain water harvesting through construction and installation of Rain Water Harvesting and storage systems,
    • Supports Construction of Ventilated Improved Pit latrines (VIP) and other facilities to improve hygiene and sanitation in households and schools,
    • Improves the management of water sources through refresher trainings and sensitization of community members especially women and children on better use, operation and maintenance of Water Sanitation and Hygiene Facilities
    • Promotes and protects women right to water and sanitation at community level through capacity building in Human rights monitoring, advocacy and reporting by establishing Water User Committees (WUC’s) and mentoring women groups in Water resources management.
    • Undertakes advocacy campaigning on Water issues which empowers women and communities to carry out advocacy on Water issues by themselves, establishing new women groups and strengthening existing ones thinking of innovative ways of how to bring water closer to themselves and their communities through initiating Rain Water Harvesting Tank Schemes, Training local women groups from water stressed areas as masons in construction of ferrocement tanks empowering them  to become efficient water users and managers, engaging in advocacy and lobbying government leaders to bring water to their communities, participatory planning, monitoring and evaluation, dialogues, Documenting and dissemination of community voices and media campaigns for emergency advocacy issues that need attention or facilitation and formation of community based monitors and evaluators.
GCDF is a Charitable Community Development Foundation founded in the year 2018 and legally registered with the relevant authorities in Uganda as Company Limited by Guarantee with no share capital and Not-For-Profit Non-Governmental Organization under the Non-Governmental Organizations Act 2016.
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