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CAWST & FMF join hands

Meaningful change often begins with a conversation. For FINISH Mondial Foundation (FMF) and the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST), that conversation started during World Water Week 2025 in Stockholm—a gathering of global leaders working toward a water-secure future.

What began as an exchange of ideas soon revealed a shared vision: a world where communities everywhere have access to safe water and sustainable sanitation. Today, that vision has taken a step forward through the signing of a Letter of Intent between the two organizations.

Both FMF and CAWST are committed to advancing Sustainable Development Goal 6 – ensuring safe water and sanitation for all. At the heart of this commitment lies a shared belief that long-term impact can only be achieved by strengthening local ecosystems—empowering communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs with the knowledge, tools, and systems needed to sustain solutions over time.

For over a decade, FINISH Mondial has been working to create inclusive sanitation markets in low-income communities across Africa and South Asia. By linking microfinance institutions, governments, businesses, and communities, the programme enables households to access safe sanitation while also building sustainable waste management systems that transform human waste into valuable resources like fertilizer—supporting jobs, local economies, and circular sanitation models.

CAWST brings complementary expertise to this collaboration. As a Canadian charity and licensed engineering firm, CAWST focuses on building knowledge and skills around decentralized water and sanitation solutions. Through training programmes, consulting services, and open-access learning resources available in multiple languages, CAWST equips local partners to design and implement effective solutions at community and household levels.

The partnership will initially focus on exploratory discussions with country teams in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and India—regions where both organizations are already working alongside local partners to strengthen WASH systems.

Together, FMF and CAWST will identify opportunities for collaboration in areas such as capacity development, knowledge sharing, technical support, and strengthening local WASH networks.

By combining FMF’s market-based sanitation approach with CAWST’s expertise in training and capacity development, this partnership aims to accelerate sustainable, locally driven solutions—ensuring that communities are not only reached, but empowered to lead their own water and sanitation future.