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The WASH Systems Academy empowers you with the knowledge and tools you need to ensure lasting water, sanitation and hygiene services for all.

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WASH systems strengthening:
The basics

This 4-hour refreshed basics course will help get you started on your systems strengthening journey. Get a foundational understanding of how WASH is critical to our collective resilience and why systems thinking is part of the solution.

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Improving utility performance: The basics

This 4-hour course unifies definitions, gives an overview of the current state of water and sanitation utilities. Find out what actions utilities can and have taken to improve their performance and what others can do to support them.

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Systems leadership:
The basics

Realising a world where everyone lives in health and wellbeing, dignity and justice, is one of the complex challenges we face today. Bringing this vision to reality demands a new type of leadership.

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Pathways to safely managed water and saniation sevices

This 4-hour course shows you what it takes to move from basic water and sanitation to delivering safely managed services. It provides clear pathways to progress up the service ladder with practical interventions across the water, sanitation and hygiene system in support of this transition.

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Climate-resilient WASH services:
The basics

In this 1.5-hour course, learn how climate change affects WASH services and how strengthening WASH systems can build climate resilience. The content in this course pulls from a larger body of work, Climate-resilient WASH services.

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Conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding for WASH

Second in our 2-part series on the Triple Nexus in WASH. Dive deeper into the specifics of improving new and existing programmes with systems strengthening interventions that integrate resilience, conflict sensitivity and peacebuilding.

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