Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

CLEAN UP NEPAL prioritizes equitable access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services as a cornerstone of public health and sustainable development. Our strategy emphasizes community-centered interventions that improve access to safe drinking water, sanitation infrastructure, and hygiene practices, ensuring both environmental safety and societal well-being.
To enhance community access, CLEAN UP NEPAL supports the installation of water points, promotes gender-friendly and accessible toilets, and implements one house, one tap initiatives, ensuring reliable water supply for every household. Total sanitation campaigns and post ODF follow-ups are conducted to maintain hygiene standards, prevent contamination, and sustain behavioral change.
CLEAN UP NEPAL integrates hygiene behavior change programs targeting handwashing, menstrual hygiene, and personal hygiene practices. These interventions are designed to be culturally sensitive, inclusive, and reinforced through community mobilization, awareness campaigns, and school-based programs.
Capacity building is a critical component of our strategy. We provide training and technical support to local governments, WASH service providers, and community volunteers, strengthening institutional systems, service delivery, and monitoring mechanisms. This ensures that interventions are locally owned, sustainable, and replicable.
Integration of waste management with WASH is another strategic focus, linking proper waste disposal and resource recovery with sanitation infrastructure to prevent waterborne diseases and environmental contamination. Through a rights-based and inclusive approach, CLEAN UP NEPAL emphasizes dignity assurance, particularly for women, girls, and vulnerable groups, ensuring access to safe, private, and gender-responsive WASH facilities. By combining infrastructure development, behavior change, capacity building, and integration with waste management, CLEAN UP NEPAL support to achieve sustainable WASH outcomes, enhance public health, and promote community resilience, contributing to broader environmental safety and social well-being.
Main Objective:
To ensure equitable, sustainable, and dignified access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services for all, thereby improving public health, preventing environmental contamination, and building community resilience through integrated, rights-based, and inclusive interventions.
Specific Objectives:
i. To increase universal and reliable access to safe water and sanitation infrastructure by supporting the installation of household and community water points, constructing inclusive toilets, and promoting initiatives like 'one house, one tap'.
ii. To promote and sustain positive hygiene and sanitation behaviors through community-led campaigns focused on handwashing, menstrual hygiene, and post Open Defecation Free (ODF), and total sanitation approach.
iii. To strengthen local systems for sustainable WASH service delivery by building the capacity of municipal staff, service providers, and community volunteers in management, maintenance, and monitoring.
iv. To integrate WASH with broader environmental management by linking sanitation infrastructure with proper solid waste management practices to prevent waterborne diseases and environmental pollution.
v. To ensure inclusivity, dignity, and safety in all WASH interventions by prioritizing the needs of women, girls, and vulnerable groups, and by tracking usage and accessibility to uphold a rights-based approach.