Nepal celebrates annually a number of WASH related special days to achieve the national target of full coverage of WASH services. Nepal is committed to provide basic WASH services as people's fundamental right as it is mentioned in the Constitution of Nepal-2072. The N...

Gender based discrimination is one of the major problems of women in Nepal. Among many issues related to gender, menstruation based discrimination is one of the major issues.  It can be observed all over Nepal excluding some of the ethnic communities. In far western pr...

Today we celebrate the World Water Day! This year, the theme of the year “Nature for Water” explores nature-based solutions to the water challenges faced in the 21st century. Climate change and environmental degradation cause increasing challenges such as floods, droug...

Today is the World Toilet Day.  The day was officially designated by the United Nations General Assembly in 2013 to inspire action to tackle global sanitation crisis. With this blog post I wish to share some of our fresh emerging findings that we have not published yet...

We are happy to share our progress report! This is also available as brief. Even amid many changes in Nepal over the past year, we did very well and reached most of our targets. The past year, in our case Nepali Fiscal Year Four (FY04), mid-July 2016 – mid-July 2017, w...

Sanitation and hygiene are very much about behavior. RWSSP-WN II is sharpening its approach by making our behavior change programme more systematic and based on science.  From May 17 to 20, 2017, RWSSP-WN held a behavior change course to introduce our staff and partner...

The indigenous Magar people of the remote Patalkharka settlement located in Parbat district used to live without safe drinking water and other facilities. Their settlement is located far from the service center and they still remember many support organizations enterin...

World Water Day, on 22 March every year, highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2017, the theme is “Wastewater.” The global message highlights that “instead of wasting wastewater, we need to reduce and reuse it. In our homes, we can reuse greywater on our garde...

Diarrhea remains the world’s second leading cause of death and it is often caused by poor sanitation and hygiene. Community-driven behavior change is an appropriate tool to change the behavior of rural communities in a sustainable manner. Improving hardware hygiene hel...

“We are taking lead to manage our homes. We are taking lead to manage our water users’ committees. Now, it is time to take a lead role to manage our country!” says Khagisara Ale, Chairperson of Dhuskhala Dumai Drinking Water Supply Scheme. Khagisara Ale participated in...