RANO WASH :TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE
Ny Tanintsika implement the USAID Project RANO WASH in Vatovavy Fitovinany Region. The project aim to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in rural Madagascar for 5 years. RANO WASH, which stands for ‘Rural Access to New Opportunities in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene’ will improve the health of vulnerable populations.
RANO WASH will increase access to clean water for, including girls, women and people with disabilities. For Vatovavy fitovinany, 17 communes in 4 districts as Ikongo, Ifanadiana, Manakara and Vohipeno will be the beneficiaries of the project on the first year. From the second year, the project will be extended in others communes and districts. These systems will be managed by local businesses with training from the project. A further 375,000 people will have better sanitation options thanks to improvements and rehabilitation work to existing toilets and cleaning stations. Public facilities, including health centres and schools, are among the locations destined to receive improved sanitation facilities.
“Clean water is essential to our lives. We all need to drink, to bathe, to clean our clothes, and to ensure our children are clean and healthy,” said Acting USAID Mission Director, Aaron Bishop, speaking at the launch event. “This project will ensure over half a million people will enjoy healthier lives and these results will tackle head-on one of the leading causes of disease and death in Madagascar and help the country achieve its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.”
The project will engage with partners and existing networks of community health volunteers to promote healthy behaviors such as the use of safe drinking water and toilets, regular handwashing and hygiene, menstrual hygiene for girls and women, food hygiene, and waste management.
