Accelerating WASH implementing WAI programme 2016 The WASH Alliance International envisions a world where all people have access to and make use of sustainable water and sanitation services that they can afford, and where all people can live under hygienic conditions to improve their health, dignity and economic living standard. This information will soon be available The WAI programme 2016 will work on three integrated pillars:
1. Developing a functioning and enabling WASH market, in which the private sector is providing quality products and services at an affordable price and in which the financial sector facilitates the access and use of finance for entrepreneurs and consumers.
2. Developing an enabling public sector for WASH, in which the government takes up its responsibility as duty bearer, creates a supportive policy and regulatory environment for sustainable WASH services for all, with strong M&E (Monitoring & Evaluation) frameworks and allocates sufficient budget for WASH. 
3. Empowering, informing and organising citizens for sustainable WASH: informed citizens will demand, participate and pay for sustainable WASH services and practice healthy hygienic behaviour; organised citizens will claim high quality WASH services from the market; and empowered citizens hold the government accountable for delivering quality WASH services for all.
The WAI programme 2016 will be together with partners: Amref, WASTE, RAIN, Akvo and about several local NGO’s in the countries Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Mali. Simavi is the lead agency of the WAI, the programme is managed by the WASH Alliance Management Unit located at Simavi. In 2016 the WAI’s  main objective will be to strengthen our position as an innovative player in the international WASH Sector, focusing on sustainability & acceleration. We will work on the following sub-objectives:
1.Diversify and expand our funding base, both internationally and in the countries, to a total of €19 mln Euro in 2017
2.Provision of safe water to an additional 140.000 people and improved sanitation to an additional 160.000 people against €18,- per person
3.Learn and innovate on sustainability and acceleration. Financial sustainability ensures the continuity in the delivery of products and services related to water, sanitation and hygiene.
This means that the activities are locally financed (e.g. taxes, local fees, local financing) and do not depend on external (foreign) subsidies. Institutional sustainability ensures that WASH systems, institutions, policies and procedures at the local level are functional and meet the demand of users of WASH services. Environmental sustainability ensures the management of water and sanitation resources for current and future generations. Technical sustainability is about locally appropriate technologies. Social sustainability ensures that the appropriate social conditions and prerequisites are realized and sustained. Our operational areas were chosen because these areas had less access to WASH services than the general access levels in these countries, or in other words, we selected areas with more  marginalized people. In these areas we target everyone, as only with full coverage the impact of WASH services on the health of people and the environment can be fully achieved. Financial sustainability : Financial sustainability ensures the continuity in the delivery of products and services related to water, sanitation and hygiene.
This means that the activities are locally financed (e.g. taxes, local fees, local financing) and do not depend on external (foreign) subsidies.
Institutional sustainability : Institutional sustainability ensures that WASH systems, institutions, policies and procedures at the local level are functional and meet the demand of users of WASH services.
Environmental sustainability : Environmental sustainability ensures the management of water and sanitation resources for current and future generations.
Technical sustainability : Technical sustainability is about locally appropriate technologies.
Social sustainability : Social sustainability ensures that the appropriate social conditions and prerequisites are realized and sustained. diversify our funding base become internationally recognised to continue learning and innovating together on WASH sector development and acceleration provide 160.000 people with sanitation and 140.000 with water in 2016 CAP The grant by the Dutch government will be used to diversify our funding base and become internationally recognised, to continue learning and innovating together on WASH sector development and acceleration and at the same time to provide 160.000 people with sanitation and 140.000 with water in 2016. ADV,INT,IMP F,I,E,T,S WASH