ALL 4 Water! Our Viva con Agua commitment for 2030

1. We want to make the human rights to water and sanitation and the principle of the Sustainable Development Goals "Leave no one behind" the principle of development cooperation. What we must all do is to put those furthest behind first. Therefore, Viva con Agua will, besides the WASH supply for households, strongly focus on WASH in Schools, WASH in Health Care Facilities and WASH in public spaces especially in rural areas and at the same time focus on marginalized groups in urban areas, like homeless people and residents of informal settlements.

2. We work to reduce the transmission of water-related diseases through sustainable behaviour change. Therefore, Viva con Agua will strongly focus on using the Universal Languages for Behaviour Change (UL4BC) like music, sport, art and gaming to inspire, activate, connect and transform the lives of people in the countries where we work, to ensure a sustained progress in hygiene behaviour in a joyful and playful way. The UL4BC also provide civil society actors a platform to raise their voices, to advocate for the human right to water.

3. We aim to activate and engage local WASH talents and actors as well as Impact Investors to develop a thriving Social Enterprise pipeline for WASH solutions, leading to scaling innovations with a strong impact related to SDG 6 and beyond. Therefore, Viva con Agua will raise its efforts for Social WASH enterprises and their locally driven and adapted solutions. We will support incubation and acceleration programs and carry out innovative impact investments into WASH enterprises with an added value for climate change mitigation and adaptation, health, gender equality and other SDG’s.

4. We will expand our support for the delivery of WASH services that last. Therefore, we will focus on channeling efforts and resources towards understanding where the gaps and weaknesses are in the broader WASH system and take collective action to make the whole system stronger. We will support initiatives and projects that aim to strengthen the WASH systems, i.e. all actors (people and institutions) and factors (infrastructure, finances, policies, and environmental conditions) that affect the sustainability of WASH services especially under the conditions of climate change.