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About Us
Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) is a national level non-governmental organization (NGO) that specializes in drinking water, health promotion and sanitation. Established in 1992, it has been working actively in partnership with local NGOs to serve poor communities secure basic services of water and sanitation, strengthening the capacity of these partners to undertake further development activities. It has an executive body comprising of 7 members and is affiliated with the Social Welfare council - the governing body of NGO sector in Nepal and is registered with the District Administration Office.
NEWAH operates in selective districts of Nepal from the East to the Far West through its three regional offices located in three development regions (Eastern, Central and Mid Western region) of the country with the support of 93 professional regular staff. Each year NEWAH supports around 60 community based self-help water supply, health promotion and sanitation projects. The community receives financial, technical and capacity building support from NEWAH. So far, NEWAH has worked in 50 districts of the country serving over one million people (estimated to be 3% of the national population) through 1,013 projects working in partnership with 465 local partners. (As of November 7, 2007) Please click here for the detail.
Social inclusion and equity is promoted all across NEWAH (both at programme and organizational level) by adopting an approach of Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI). Although most of its work is carried out in rural areas, it is gradually trying to extend the services for the rapidly expanding semi urban poor. NEWAH perceives itself as a 'Learning Organization' and continues to increase its focus on innovative and low cost alternative technologies, approaches as well as learning around water and sanitation such as Fog Water Collection, Rain Water Harvesting, Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS), SaniMart, Integrated Water Resource Management etc. to contribute in improving sector performance.
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