Systems Strengthening: WaterSHED Case Study
This case study assesses: the depth of key system changes by assessing how much performance has changed...
On the Role of Expatriate Staff and Other Reflections from Early WaterSHED Team
What kind of Executive Director refuses to put their NGO’s logo on anything? Probably the kind who...
From our Executive Director: WaterSHED’s Strategic Exit
Dear friends and colleagues, This year is a big milestone for WaterSHED, one that we have been...
Hands-Off: where taking a step back is several steps forward
Download the paper: Strengthening the sanitation market system: WaterSHED’s Hands-Off experience English version Khmer version Download the...
Evolving Metrics for Monitoring Sanitation Market Systems / ការវិវត្តនៃនិយាមវាស់វែង សម្រាប់ត្រួតពិនិត្យប្រព័ន្ធទីផ្សារអនាម័យ
In 2011, when WaterSHED introduced the Hands-Off market-based sanitation program, the rural sanitation market was negligible. To...
Women in WASH Profile – Samros Nov
WaterSHED developed the Women in WASH Program to bring more women into the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)...
Globalwaters: Webinar Explores Barriers to Effective Sanitation Enterprises
Original post on Globalwaters.org The provision of sustainable sanitation for all is one of the world’s most important...
BMGF | Case Studies in Gender Integration: Market-based solutions in Cambodia
From the case study Introduction Gender matters across the sanitation value chain. It influences user behaviors and...
Business Profile – Thung Thun
When WaterSHED began to build the market for toilets, the NGO needed to grow demand in lockstep...
The gender equity blind spot
WASH organizations are putting a greater emphasis on women and girls in their efforts to end open...
Ms. Magazine: Rural business networks put women entrepreneurs out front
Read the article in Ms. Magazine. By WaterSHED’s Janita Bartell, Care International’s Emily Hillenbrand, and ICRW’s Naziha Sultana...
Civic Champions profile – Sun Chhoeun
When WaterSHED set out to build the rural market for water, sanitation, and hygiene in Cambodia, our...
Building the market for sanitation with planned obsolescence
Six years after starting an experimental program to build the market for sanitation in rural Cambodia, WaterSHED...
Channel News Asia: Millionaire Minds | Daroath Phav
Watch the video documentary, Millionaire Minds, in Channel News Asia. Daroath Phav Fresh out of university, Cambodian Daroath Phav...
The Phnom Penh Post: In providing a valuable service, toilet makers becoming flush
Read the article in The Phnom Penh Post. Efforts to include the private sector in the expansion...
Al Jazeera: World Toilet Day | Growing momentum for sanitation in Cambodia
Read the article in Al Jazeera. Cambodia has been badly affected by people going to the toilet in the...
Changing the message: to promote handwashing, we need to stop talking about it
Marketing hand-washing-enabling technology is neither about the technology nor actual hand washing. HappyTap CEO Geoff Revell argues...
In Conversation – Sothea Sao on the Paradise toilet shelter
WaterSHED’s sanitation program has seen unprecedented success over the last seven years. We helped design the all-in-one...
ABN-CBS News: Bringing sanitation to rural Cambodia via sustainable business
Read the article in ABN-CBS News. MANILA – Sanitation was a major problem in Cambodia several years ago,...
Fostering Collective Action in the rural sanitation and hygiene sector in Cambodia
“Collective impact is fundamentally not about creating a whole new initiative, but rather connecting and strengthening existing...
Entrepreneur: These 30 International Entrepreneurs Really Are Solving the World’s Problems
The world has countless problems, unless you’re an entrepreneur, in which case the world has countless opportunities....
The Phnom Penh Post: Sokha called out over sanitation comments
Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong speaks at an event yesterday in the Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district....
The Phnom Penh Post: Market-based approach to development
WaterSHED executive director Phav Daroath at the NGO’s headquarters in Phnom Penh last month. Photo by: Hong Menea,...
Forbes: 30 Under 30 Asia – Meet The Class Of 2017
Read the article in Forbes magazine. Diversity and empowerment: two words that come to mind when attempting...
Die WELT: My house, my moped, my toilets | How a businesswoman turns toilets into a luxury items
A toilet saleswoman points to a poster showing man’s best friend and a man relieving themselves outdoors,...
WaterSHED launches program to get more women into toilet industry
Phnom Penh – WaterSHED marks International Women’s Day 2016 with the launch of WEwork, a first-of-its-kind program...
Reflections on Nairobi: Breaking the Barriers to Women’s Empowerment
Last week our Women’s Empowerment Program Manager, Sarah van Boekhout, and Social Behaviour and Research Specialist, Janita...
Deutsche Welle: Cambodia makes progress flushing sanitation problems
Read the article in Deutsche Welle. Local innovations have catapulted Cambodia, which has long had dire toilet...
AsiaLIFE: Toilets of Cambodia
Read the article in AsiaLIFE magazine. Cambodia has the region’s worst indicators on toilet use, but this...
WaterSHED Launches Women’s Empowerment & WASH Initiative with Support from Diageo
PHNOM PENH – On 8 March 2013, WaterSHED will mark International Women’s Day with the launch of...
Business Plans and Models
A lot of questions come to the WaterSHED team about our model, and if how we help...
WaterSHED’s staffs talked to VOA about the UNC’s 2012 Water and Health Conference
Two representatives from WaterSHED participated in Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation at the University...
WaterSHED Forum, “Make the Impossible Possible”
On 27 September 2012, WaterSHED hosted a forum title, “Make the Impossible Possible” which attracted nearly 200...
WaterSHED Presents Innovative Financing Strategies at World Bank Meeting
At the 2nd Annual Plenary Meeting of Small-Scale Private Piped Water Suppliers, held during 21-22 April, 2011...
Women Take Group Loan for Latrines through WaterSHED – Amret Collaboration
Money is often cited as one of the primary constraints preventing consumers from adopting water, sanitation and...
Healthcare in Asia – WaterSHED Spotlighted by The Economist
WaterSHED was featured in a special edition of The Economist magazine, entitled Healthcare in Asia: The Innovation...
Real Impact. WaterSHED Featured in USAID Global Waters
WaterSHED is the featured Real Impact story in the January 2011 edition of USAID Global Waters