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Partners for Water and Sanitation is a not-for profit partnership that focuses on sharing technical expertise to build the capacity of the water and sanitation sector in Africa.
Our vision is ...
... to be recognized as the leading provider of professional volunteer expertise to support the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal targets for Water and Sanitation in Africa.
Our mission is ...
... to improve water services and management in Africa.
We achieve this through matching the demand for skills and advice from our in-country African partners with professionals from the UK water sector. Our UK partners then provide their staff on a voluntary basis to share knowledge and technical expertise to support a diverse range of projects. Our aim is to foster long term relationships with our partners to strengthen skills and performance of the water sector to ultimately improve water management and sanitation.
"Building our human capacity is a key requirement to support sustainable business improvement for the future."
Director of the Federal Capital Territory Water Board, Nigeria
We care passionately about the plight of the poor in Africa. We believe that our unique partnership approach makes a real difference in building capacity and strengthening the governance systems necessary to deliver more and better water and sanitation services to all. Water and sanitation is a cornerstone of Africa's development and is vital to people's health and quality of life. Our aim is to contribute towards reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals for water which will require the provision of services to an additional 300,000 people a day over the next decade, increasing current efforts to be stepped up by a third.
In the year 2000, the world committed to reduce, by half, the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015. In 2002, this commitment was expanded to include halving the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation.
The greatest challenge is in Africa ... it's time to make a difference.
Ethiopian workshop on leakage training
Inspection of South African water pump
