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The Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) is an international
partnership of the world's leading development agencies concerned
with improving sector policies, practices and capacities to
serve poor people. Its goal is to alleviate poverty by helping
the poor gain sustained access to water and sanitation services.
Administered
by The World Bank, WSP works to meet the Millennium Development
Goals for water and sanitation: to halve the proportion of
people without access to safe drinking water and adequate
sanitation by 2015. Over the past two decades, WSP has led
or supported many of the advances made within the sector,
and actively contributes to the growing understanding of how
to translate the guiding principles agreed upon at major international
conferences into improved policies and programs.
In
practical terms, WSP provides targeted support to national
and local governments, local communities, and their support
organizations. The current challenge is how to scale-up successful
approaches, continue targeted learning efforts, and support
reforms that will ensure the adoption and replication of sustainable
investments.
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