Climate-Resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Scale-Up Program

Climate-Resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Scale-Up Program (CR-WASH-SUP)

Water for Women partners with iDE to deliver CR-WASH-SUP — Climate-Resilient Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Scale-Up Program to reach an estimated 19,906* people living in rural areas of Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, and to strengthen socially inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) markets and systems to ensure sustainability beyond the life of this project.

Despite a relatively lower exposure to climate hazards compared to nearby countries, Cambodia’s low adaptive capacity makes it extremely vulnerable. The health of the population is profoundly affected by climate change, which threatens to exacerbate existing health problems while also undermining water and food supplies, infrastructure, and health and social protection systems. More than 25% of the population lives in environments affected by seasonal floods and high groundwater,^[1] which bring increased incidence and risk of water-borne diseases, and more than 61% lives in rural floodplain regions and is primarily reliant on agriculture for food security and income,^[2] making this population more climate vulnerable.