Global Women's Water Initiative (GWWI) Partners

A Single Drop
A Single Drop’s Program “Bringing People H2ope” promotes water as a source of peace and equality by improving community health through safe water access for all people. Merging action and advocacy, ASD unites communities by creating and or transforming people’s organizations into independent and self-reliant local water organizations.  Through ‘appropriate technology’ trainings and organizational development workshops, ASD provides the skills, tools and appropriate solutions to create and/or strengthen these local organizations to become water education and training centers.  ASD’s Women WaterKeepers Program works with women around the world to strengthen their role as water stewards.  ASD's role in the GWWI is to manage the appropriate technology, and the on-the-ground training and project implementation components.


Crabgrass
Crabgrass is a San Francisco based organization working globally and locally on environmental, social change, and human rights issues.   Since 1982 Crabgrass has worked in partnership with India-based Sankat Mochan Foundation to clean the Ganges River.  Crabgrass has organized three international conferences on Women and Water in South Asia. The role of Crabgrass in the GWWI is to manage the research, high-level strategy, and finance components.

Groots Kenya
Groots Kenya partnered to create the 2008 African Women and Water Conference. GROOTS Kenya (Grassroots Organizations Operating Together in Sisterhood) is a network of more than 2000 self-help groups from poor communities in urban slums and rural areas across the country.  In GROOTS Kenya, grassroots women leaders and their organizations come together build a collective voice for women, advocate for important issues and share experiences and innovative initiatives in community development. 

Greenbelt Movement
The Greenbelt Movement hosted the 2008 African Women and Water Conference at their training center in Nairobi, Kenya. The Green Belt Movement is one of the most prominent women’s civil society organizations, based in Kenya, advocating for human rights and supporting good governance and peaceful democratic change through the protection of the environment. Its mission is to empower communities worldwide to protect the environment and to promote good governance and cultures of peace.

ProNet Accra (a project of WaterAid)
ProNet Accra provided local expertise to the training. WaterAid Ghana’s local staff identified local practices, technologies, and appropriate trainers. ProNet Accra partners to support the implementation phase of the year-long program.