James Racicot is a water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) engineer with more than 25 years of experience managing capacity building efforts for water utilities in Canada and over a dozen developing countries in Asia, the Middle…
Person - Specialist
The VAAPP activity supports the government of Vietnam's commitment to reducing plastic pollution at its source, improving solid waste management, implementing single-use plastic reduction models, and supporting collective action.
Project Page
Our senior advisor for water and sustainable cities programs reflects on the importance of sustainability, inclusion, and a cross-sectoral approach in implementing effective water and sanitation programs.
Blog Post
This success story provides an overview of how the Resilient Waters program improves transboundary natural resources management by targeting local municipalities around the Limpopo River and Okavango basins.
Resource - Project Success Story
Barbara Rossmiller is currently a director in Chemonics’ Water, Energy and Sustainable Cities (WESC) practice, responsible for technical leadership in water, sanitation, and hygiene programming. She is a senior water and sanitation, sector governance, and institutional…
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If we aspire to meet the global goal of “availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all,” it’s imperative that we view our water and sanitation systems holistically and stop creating solutions for those systems’ discrete parts.
Blog Post
Chemonics and the University of North Carolina Water Institute held a webinar with water experts to discuss how water and sanitation interventions can adapt a systems approach for long-term resilience.
Resource - Event
The main objective of this USAID assessment is to evaluate the vulnerability of the Mara River Basin to climate variability and change, while providing investment recommendations for donors, the government and the private sector to address the changing nature of risk across the basin.
Resource - Paper
Improved natural resource management and increased access to safe drinking water and sanitation are essential to addressing human and ecosystem challenges in southern Africa.
Project Page
The USAID-funded Resilience in the Limpopo Basin Program (RESILIM) contributed to significant advances in water management, biodiversity, and climate change adaptation across an area of Southern Africa.
Resource - Project Report
Maria Olanda Bata is a former Chief of Party.
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The primary objective of USAID’s Enhance Climate Resiliency and Water Security in the Maldives Project — also referred to as Maldives Global Climate Change — was to build the resiliency of island residents in response to the significant challenges brought on by climate change.
Resource - Project Report