‘Improving WASH in Slum Communities’ was a four-year project (2015 –2019) that aimed to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and livelihoods in slum communities of Akaki-kality and Yeka Sub-cities of Addis Ababa.
With funding support from Comic Relief-UK, this project worked to address gaps in access to WASH services in the selected sub-cities. Implemented in collaboration with the Regional Health Bureau (RHB) and Addis Ababa City Government Cleansing Management Agency, the project more specifically worked to increase community access to and use of sustainable water supply and sanitation services, and to improve the hygiene practices and livelihood opportunities of underserved community members, school children, women, and unemployed youth living in the slums.
The project engaged in training and capacity building of more than 1,000 front line workers (e.g. waste collection operators, urban health extension workers, teachers, local authorities) and mass hygiene and sanitation mobilization and promotion activities for more than 80,000 people.
Communities are seldom given a platform to document and share their own stories. Their experience and perspectives as beneficiaries of our intervention may go unheard, as a result. Amref Health
In celebration of this year’s World Environment Day, themed ‘Beat Plastic Pollution,’ Amref Health Africa is preparing to launch a new initiative that turns plastic waste, one of the biggest
Desta Hailemichael I am Desta Hailemichael, a community leader who lives in woreda 06, Akaki-Kality Sub-city, Addis Ababa. I live in a neighborhood with 10 other households, most of which
Amref Health Africa
