Water for Women aims to support improved health, gender equality and wellbeing in Asian and Pacific Communities through socially inclusive and sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene(WASH) projects. 

Gender equality and social inclusion are central to Water for Women. Actively involving all people within communities (women, men, marginalised groups, people with disabilities) ensures more equitable and inclusive processes, which lead to more effective and sustainable outcomes in water, sanitation and hygiene.  

Water for Women is the Australian Government’s flagship WASH program and will be delivered as part of Australia's aid program, investing 110.6 Million over five years from 2018 to 2022. 

Water for Women will partner with 10 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to deliver 19 Projects in 16 Countries in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Over the course of the Fund, Water for Women hopes to support an estimated 2.95 Million people including some of the most marginalised within these communities. 

Their Aim

Water for Women aims to improve the health, gender equality and wellbeing of Asian and Pacific Communities. Contribution to this aim falls into four key end-of-program outcomes: 

1. Strengthened national and subnational WASH sector systems with greater emphasis on gender, social inclusion, safely managed WASH and water security. 
2. Increased equitable, universal access to and use of sustainable WASH services, particularly for marginalised communities and community members. 
3. Strengthened gender equality and social inclusion in households, communities and institutions. 
4. Strengthened use of new evidence, innovation and practice in sustainable gender and inclusive WASH by other CSOs, national and international WASH sector actors.