Safe Water Network's 2025 Ghana market update documents another year of measurable progress — 92,788 people reached, 53 new systems installed, and cumulative reach now exceeding 1.1 million people across 747 communities. New research also sheds light on the financing structures needed to bring safe water to Ghana's hardest-to-reach communities.
April 2026
Vasundhara demonstrates how integrated, community-led ecosystem restoration can deliver measurable environmental, climate, and livelihood outcomes at scale. Working across urban and peri-urban India, the program offers a replicable model for restoring land and water systems while strengthening local institutions.
January 2026
This report examines the state of Ghana’s water sector and the necessary financial steps to achieve universal safe drinking water access. Small Water Enterprises (SWEs) have been a successful tool for increasing access to safe water but there is still work to be done to ensure that they reach their full capacity.
This report puts forth a framework and policy guidelines to help achieve "Har Ghar Jal" (water for every home) by 2030, and address emerging issues by shifting the country's heavy dependency on groundwater sources to surface water, improving service delivery standards, and encouraging a paradigm shift towards metered, household piped water connections for all.
This report, developed in partnership with Safe Water Network and UNICEF, seeks to strengthen the operational sustainability of water systems by examining the supply chain of spare parts.
This report describes our continued work to develop a Ghana Water Enterprise Trust (the “Trust”) to address the need for long term sustainability and scale of small water enterprises in Ghana.
During Ghana’s 2017 energy crisis, solar power offered a financially viable solution to enhance affordability and reach more consumers.
This report is a mid-term assessment of the Strategic Plan 2011-2022 for rural drinking water, which helps operationalize the NRDWP by setting out goals, objectives and strategic initiatives for the sector.
This assessment of drinking water provision to the urban poor in the four cities of Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Mumbai has been conducted as a part of a partnership between Safe Water Network and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), entitled Urban Small Water Enterprises under the USAID Urban Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Alliance program.
The Hyderabad City Assessment aims to form a strong base for better water delivery, governance, and decision making for the urban poor in order to improve their health and lives.
