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Sanitation Financing Facility
The Sanitation Financing Facility (SFF) is a UNICEF-brokered innovative financing solution designed to accelerate access to improved sanitation in poorer households across sub-Saharan Africa. By leveraging donor guarantees and technical assistance, the SFF bridges the gap in commercial financing, enabling sustaina...
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Call for Innovative WASH Solutions
The UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub sources, accelerates and scales transformative water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) solutions to drive lasting impact for children and their families. Solutions within the innovation portfolios are selected based on their potential to accelerate results for children acro...
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More Water More Life: Deep groundwater mapping across the Horn of Africa
Water is scarce in the Horn of Africa, where 25 million people lack affordable, reliable, long-term access. Droughts, happening every 3-4 years, can be devastating for children and their families. Yet, potentially significant water resources lie beneath this arid landscape. , The Innovation: Locating water with g...
Programme
Accelerating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Innovations to Scale Impact
18–19 March 2025 | 8:30–16:00| UN City, Marmorvej 51, 2100 København Join a global community of thought leaders and innovators to collaborate on pathways to accelerate and scale innovative Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) solutions with the power to transform the lives of children and reach millions of unders...
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Bridging the Gaps
Water scarcity in the Horn of Africa (HOA) is a profound challenge with cascading effects — exacerbating food insecurity, impeding education, eroding livelihoods, and deteriorating health. These interlinked issues threaten the wellbeing of generations to come. To address them, we must tackle the root causes and wo...
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Tech Bets, Water Metering
Water Metering icon, Water Metering, IoT networks of sensors and meters, purchased by municipal water companies, to monitor the flow and/or quality of water through the network to identify leakages and aggregate water revenues, ultimately improving accessing to clean, fairly-priced water. Potential Market Size (by...
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Clean Lakes for a Clean Future
In the informal, high-density, low-income settlements in Bangladesh, tens of thousands of people, including children, face daily struggles to access basic water and sanitation facilities. These challenges leave them highly vulnerable to communicable diseases. But the problem extends beyond these communities. Local...
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Dushanbe Water Conference
At this year’s Dushanbe Water Conference, UNICEF Tajikistan united young innovators and decision-makers to showcase and explore climate-resilient solutions designed to accelerate progress toward water-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Among the highlights, two members of the Innovation30 climate cohort...
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WASH Innovation Problem Statements
Problem Statements, Problem statements are used to guide the selection of key solutions for innovation portfolio management. They represent significant challenges to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 and help highlight areas UNICEF can add value to the existing landscape, offer support or management ...
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UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub
From using satellite data to locate water underground to unlocking millions in innovative financing for toilets, the UNICEF Sustainable WASH Innovation Hub (the Hub) is working to catalyze the scale of innovations that transform access for the world's most vulnerable children. , The Challenge, Clean water and sani...
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Dynamic partnerships toward a water secure future
What if everyone, everywhere, had access to safe water and sanitation?, What if children had access to hygiene facilities and services that ensured preventable diseases like diarrhoea and cholera were just that - preventable? The global mechanism for making this vision a reality is embodied in Sustainable Developm...
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Innovation Portfolios: Problem Statements
A problem-driven approach to innovation, At UNICEF, innovation is a key driver for transformational change. It's not a quick fix to the massive challenges the world’s children face rather it is a strategic approach to solving problems and the effective management of three key resources: time, investment and talent...