Systems Strengthening: WaterSHED Case Study
This case study assesses: the depth of key system changes by assessing how much performance has changed...
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...
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...
Global Citizen: This All-Woman Team Is Building and Selling Toilets in Cambodia
Read the article in Global Citizen. By Didem Tali Ouen Chomroeun and her team raise awareness of the importance...
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...
CNN: Meet 5 young entrepreneurs who are making the world a better place
Ending hunger, employing refugees, and lighting remote islands: these are just some of the big issues that...
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,...
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,...
WaterSHED Executive Director selected as a top social entrepreneur in Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia
Phnom Penh – Daroath Phav, WaterSHED’s Executive Director, has been selected as a top social entrepreneur in...
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,...
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...
USAID Health Expo: Cambodia
USAID partner, WaterSHED, takes part in development innovation exhibit in Phnom Penh Phnom Penh, Cambodia – WaterSHED...
Market solutions to Cambodia’s toilet troubles
From IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Networks), June 5, 2014 PHNOM PENH, 5 June 2014 (IRIN) – Having...
Civic Champions profile – Chea Chhim
A globally famous American anthropologist Margaret Mead once said “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,...
Video: Don Holzworth – Rising Entrepreneurs in Sanitation
Don Holzworth, Executive in Residence at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina...
Selling Toilets to the Poor – Aun Hengly Talks on Radio Free Asia
Watch the video below as WaterSHED’s Executive Director Aun Hengly explains the process of Sanitation Marketing in...
WaterSHED Marketing Manager Explains Sanitation Marketing on Call-in Radio Show
Listen to the podcast below for the interview in Khmer with WaterSHED’s WASH Marketing Manager, Mr. Sao...
How Toilets are Crucial to Raising Smarter Kids in Cambodia
By Colin Meyn Read original post Siev Phalla and her family are wholly dependent on the fields...
WaterSHED Spotlighted in Announcement of USAID’s First Global Water Strategy
Read original post USAID Launches its First Global Water Strategy By Christian Holmes USAID Global Water Coordinator...
WaterSHED-supported suppliers sell 50,000 toilets to rural consumers
PHNOM PENH – WaterSHED is excited to announce that more than 50,000 toilets have been purchased by...
Learning What Works: Gates Grantees Visit WaterSHED Program
Between January 14 and 17 international grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation participated in a...
Stone Family Foundation visits successful WASH programs in Kampong Cham
WaterSHED was honored to host John Stone, founder of the Stone Family Foundation, in Kampong Cham province...
Scaling up rural sanitation: WaterSHED collaborates with SNV
In early 2012 WaterSHED and SNV developed a cooperative partnership in rural Cambodia to provide complementary sanitation...
WaterSHED hightlighted on SanitationMarketing.com
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Enterprise Development, commonly known as WaterSHED, is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in the...
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...
Field visit to promote media coverage on rural sanitation
On 12th September 2012, WaterSHED hosted a field visit to one of its targeted villages in Kampong...
Stone Family Foundation and WaterSHED partner to speed sanitation coverage in Cambodia
Despite decades of effort to overcome Cambodia’s lack of improved household sanitation, more than 70 percent of...
WaterSHED hosts Chinese delegation for sanitation field visit and knowledge exchange
This week WaterSHED hosted a Chinese delegation organized by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council's...
Southeast Asia Globe features WASH in Cambodia
The June edition of Southeast Asia Globe features the current water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) situation in...
WaterSHED Shares Sanitation Marketing Experience in Laos
From 4-8 June 2012, WateSHED visited Laos to share lessons from its successful 'Hands-off' sanitation marketing...
WaterSHED hosts Nepal delegation visit to Cambodia
On 23 May, WaterSHED and Plan International hosted a Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) learning exchange in Kampong...
WaterSHED hosts Global Sanitation Fund visit to Cambodia
On 02 February 2012, WaterSHED-Cambodia hosted representatives from the Swiss-based Global Sanitation Fund (GSF), the Cambodian Ministry...
Hands-Off Marketing: Helping to fill the sanitation gap
In Cambodia, a country where 75 percent of rural villagers do not have toilets, Skuh Commune in...
Sanitation Marketing expands to Pailin Province, Cambodia
On 28 February 2012, WaterSHED-Cambodia signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Governor of Pailin Province, Cambodia...
A First for Sanitation Scale-up – Concern Worldwide and WaterSHED join forces in Cambodia
Concern Worldwide and WaterSHED-Cambodia launched a partnership this week in Pursat Province to address the country’s lack...