Global Water Strategy2024 USAID Annual Report
Category:UpdatesWe are thrilled to share USAID’s Global Water Strategy 2024 Annual Report, which showcases our progress to advance a water-secure world. In 2024, we launched new partnerships, innovative activities, and built on a decade of gains in water and sanitation across our Global Water Strategy high-priority countries. This past year, USAID helped 6.2 million people gain access to drinking water services and 3.9 million people gain access to sanitation services. Women and girls make up approximately half of each group. USAID mobilized $848 million from non-USG government sources, nearly doubling the U.S. government’s $475 million investment in water and sanitation through foreign assistance. The 2024 annual report not only celebrates these achievements but also marks a major milestone that has driven this progress: the tenth anniversary of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act. This year’s report provides snapshots of how USAID is improving health, prosperity, and stability around the world through its global water security activities and initiatives. Together, these vignettes from South Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East capture the breadth of Agency programming under the U.S. Global Water Strategy and illustrate the transformative role water and sanitation play in improving lives and livelihoods. We invite you to dive into this report and discover how USAID’s water and sanitation investments are building on a decade of progress and improving lives around the world every day. |
Curious to learn more about the U.S. government’s targeted investments to build a more water-secure world? |
For the first time, we’re reporting the number of water and sanitation institutions strengthened, with our interactive map that provides a geographic breakdown of results.
In 2024, USAID strengthened 985 institutions to manage water resources or improve water and sanitation services–12 percent of which were strengthened for the first time.
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