WASH

Afghanistan is facing multiple natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, and drought. These hazards affect the average lives of 200,000 people yearly, causing losses of lives, properties, and access to basic life needs such as safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.
According to the Afghanistan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) 2025, 21 million Afghans need Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities. Therefore, WASH is an essential element of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan, aiming to enhance access to safe drinking water and improve communities’ sanitation and hygiene practices. Climate change is likely to worsen these issues in the future and will severely impact the availability of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities, increasing health risks and outbreaks of water-borne disease.
In response to the mentioned challenges, CAWC selected WASH as one of its key thematic areas in its 2019 -2023 and 2024-2028  strategic plans to deliver WASH facilities for vulnerable communities.
Our work in WASH projects involves hardware and software approaches. In the hardware approach, we build WASH infrastructures such as water supply networks, and household or communal latrines. In the software approach, we conduct hygiene awareness sessions to improve people’s knowledge and behavior of good sanitation and hygiene practices.