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Faith, Water, & Development www.usaid.gov/global-watersSUBSCRIBE NOW VOLUME IV ISSUE III SEPTEMBER 2013 FAITH, WATER, & DEVELOPMENT ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Sustainable Relief in DRC Multiple-Use Water Systems in Nepal & more orld Water Week 2013 is upon us, and the The USAID Water and Development Strategy stresses international water community will once integrated approaches that address the competing de- W again gather to cooperate on water issues mands of multiple water users, including households, for greater impact. Now is the ideal time to look communities, agriculture, and industry. In this issue, at innovative approaches and effective partnerships we take you inside the villages in Nepal’s Mid-Western that can help us achieve a water-secure future. region, where USAID introduced multiple use water systems that are boosting water productivity and liveli- Our cover story takes a closer look at how cooperation hoods. Now, families are thriving as they spend their with faith-based communities is helping to promote time improving their farms instead of collecting water. efficient water use, stamp out water-borne disease, and foster peace. “It has never been more important for Integrated approaches are also necessary when secular and religious organizations around the world addressing devastating crises such as the food, to step up and cooperate,” writes USAID Center for water, health, and security crises in the Democratic Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Director J. Republic of Congo. To provide sustainable relief LETTER FROM THE WATER LETTER OFFICE THE WATER FROM Mark Brinkmoeller in this issue’s Perspectives piece. to conflict-affected victims in this war-torn country, With centuries of experience helping the vulnerable, USAID is simultaneously working to improve WASH faith-based community groups are critical partners in and healthcare in camps for displaced people, repair efforts to make the world a better place. The stories damaged infrastructure, support local farmers are inspiring: Hindu and Muslim religious leaders with training, and bring hope to the country. working together with secular leaders to eradicate polio in India, Egyptian Sheikhs preaching about We hope you enjoy this issue. Happy World Water Week! water conservation in their Friday sermons, and Kenyan Christians and Muslims fostering peaceful coexistence by digging wells, building water pumps, and working together to govern water resources. RALLYING AROUND FAITH: Members of the Zambia Council of Churches march to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. 2 Photo Credit: Center for Communication Programs, Courtesy of Photoshare PERSPECTIVES: Faith-Based Partnerships for Water On The 06Waterfront Faith, Water, and Development In 12Focus Improving Efficiency with Multiple-Use Systems in Nepal Real 16Impact Building a More Secure Society in the DRC USAID GLOBAL WATERS Currents Global Water Initiative Promotes Sustainable Watershed Management in East Africa 10World Vision Builds a Framework for Behavior Change EnterpriseWorks Introduces Domestic Rainwater Harvesting Product Cover photo: WATER FOR FAITH: A young Sikh girl drinks water from communal taps in Amritsar's Golden Temple in Punjab, India. Cover Photo Credit: Christopher Pillitz 3 Extending Our Reach: PERSPECTIVES Faith-Based Partnerships and Development By J. Mark Brinkmoeller or over five decades, USAID Millennium Development Goals of water issues. The Grammy has been working with (MDGs) for greater access to Award-winning band Jars of Clay Fcountries around the world water and sanitation have brought joined the launch of USAID’s to help the earth’s vulnerable development and faith organiza- Water and Development strategy populations. Whether combating tions together to address pervasive by video during their world tour. floods or droughts, food insecurity health and environmental issues or infant mortality, we have seen around water. It is this kind of Faith-based groups are effective the necessity of cooperation. cooperation that led to the remark- partners because they have spent Some of our most productive able achievement of improving hundreds of years gathering partnerships have been with small, access to water two years ahead of knowledge and cultivating trust, local grassroots organizations that the MDG target. and they uniquely have the closest contact with those FAITH-BASED affect people’s in need–groups like indigenous For an example behavior. USAID governing bodies, neighborhood of faith’s reach, GROUPS NOT collaborated with clinics, local hospitals, and take a look at the ONLY WORK over 30 faith-based faith-based community groups. slums of Nairobi, groups on our Child Kenya, where over ON SPECIFIC Survival Call to Faith-based groups in particular 70 percent of PROJECTS TO Action, when we are increasingly relevant partners people get their together declared, because they are integrally basic healthcare HELP BRING “Every Child intertwined with human daily life from faith-based WATER TO Deserves a 5th around the globe. Over 80 percent organizations and Birthday.” Organi- of people practice a religion, over hospitals. Islamic MILLIONS OF zations like Islamic half of the world’s schools are groups and Christian PEOPLE, BUT Relief USA, Catho- faith-affiliated, and many health groups work lic Relief Services, facilities in the world’s poorest alongside secular THEY ALSO SPEAK Episcopal Relief areas are associated with faiths. development orga- OUT AND RAISE & Development, nizations there to and the Center for Religious institutions exist in bring clean and safe AWARENESS ON Interfaith Action virtually every community in the water to the most THE IMPORTANCE on Global Poverty world. They are respected, bring- vulnerable, helping have adopted this ing trusted knowledge, values, and families and com- OF WATER ISSUES. rallying cry and skills to communities that many munities to thrive. joined forces other institutions cannot reach. In with us to prevent diarrheal the developing world, faith leaders Within the United States, faith- diseases, promote good nutrition, are working tirelessly to improve based groups not only work on and bring safe water, sanitation, access to clean and safe water to specific projects to help bring and hygiene to children under 5. combat poverty and alleviate dis- water to millions of people, but ease among their followers. Since they also speak out and raise In the field, faith leaders are 2000, joint efforts to meet the awareness on the importance especially key. In conflict-ridden 4 AGENTS FOR CHANGE: Dan Haseltine, lead singer of multi-platinum Christian rock band Jars of Clay, supported the U.S. Water and Development Strategy launch and started the grassroots organization Blood: Water Mission to empower communities to fight the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa. Photo Credit: David Bergman/Corbis and water-scarce Yemen, imams like sustainable water resources has never been more important for who received training supported by management and water, sanitation, secular and religious organizations USAID teach mothers and children and hygiene in schools, leading around the world to step up and important hygiene messages. In to over 25 new long-term plans. cooperate. These partnerships Indonesia, Paengajian As-Salaam, Now, leaders from these different offer the opportunity for greater a Muslim women’s prayer group faiths are working throughout the impact, wider reach, and a lasting supported by USAID, distributes continent toward goals like teach- future: A future where every Air RahMat, a chemical solution ing water harvesting in Nigeria’s family has access to clean water that purifies water. In Cambodia, Catholic schools and creating “eco- and enough to eat, and every child monks teach important disease mosques” throughout Ethiopia. reaches his or her 5th birthday. prevention measures like hand washing and provide HIV/AIDS These partnerships have been J. Mark Brinkmoeller is the director care. And last year, we supported fruitful, but it is time to do more. of the USAID Center for Faith- a workshop that trained Christian, With climate change intensifying, Based and Community Initiatives. Muslim, and Hindu leaders from the world’s population swelling, sub-Saharan Africa on topics and water resources dwindling, it USAID GLOBAL WATERS PARTNERING FOR WASH: Children line up to wash their hands in Kibera, a slum outside of Nairobi, Kenya, where Christian and Muslim groups work alongside secular development organizations to increase access to WASH. Photo Credit: Christy Gillmore 5 RIVERS OF CHANGE: Women pray in the Ganges River in India. Water is central to many faiths, including Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. Photo Credit: Pranab Chandra, Courtesy of Photoshare ON THE WATERFRONT FAITH, WATER, AND DEVELOPMENT illions of Hindus gather Water is central to most faiths. goals that are integral to all faiths: to bathe in the Ganges Christians perform baptisms in Safe access to water, improved MRiver in India every water, Judaism prescribes ritual livelihoods, and thriving families. 12 years. They chant scriptures, washings, Buddhists present monks sing religious songs, and cleanse with water during funerals, and PARTNERS FOR themselves in the rivers during Zoroastrianism forbids water GENERATIONS “Ardh Kumbh Mela,” the Half pollution. Many faiths have Pitcher Festival. Sacred Hindu deemed certain water sources as writings say that this ritual sacred – truly the oldest form Today, over 80 percent of people bathing cleanses believers, of environmental protection. worldwide identify as members of
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