Akros to lead the rapid scale up of WASH surveillance

By Akros Media on July 2, 2013 in News, Water and Sanitation Health

Akros has been retained by UNICEF and Praekelt Foundation to lead the design and rapid deployment of a community-level WASH surveillance system in Zambia. The project will scale to a total of twenty districts in the coming months, and will provide real-time data on WASH-indicators at the village level to MLGH and UNICEF stakeholders. This project builds on Akros prior successes in rapidly scaling up similar community-level surveillance packages with the Zambian Ministry of Health and PATH/MACEPA. Learn more here.

“This surveillance system will provide unprecedented empowerment to the environmental health technicians and community champions supporting progress toward open-defecation free status in their catchment areas”, said Benjamin Winters, Country Director for Akros in Zambia. “Without good, timely information, it is nearly impossible to know where or how to focus interventions. We are drastically changing the game here.”