WASEP's role in improving women's participation in WSS projects

The Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) has been working with rural villages in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and Chitral since 1997. The provision of drinking water, sanitation facilities and health and hygiene education are the primary components of intervention in the villages. The ultimate goal of adopting this threepronged approach is the reduction in diarrhoeal morbidity by 50%. WASEP plans to complete 100 project schemes in remote, mountainous villages by the end of 2001. It is anticipated that this first phase of intervention will be followed by a second phase with 180 new interventions over the next five years.