Water for Health and Productive Women in Dry-land Communities in Malawi
OUR VISION
To free women and their families from water poverty
OUR MISSION
To empower women to sustainably control and use clean water for building their health and productive lives
THE HOLISTIC IMPACT OF WATER APPROACH (HIWA)
CLEAN WATER FOR DISEASE PREVENTION, FOOD, INCOME AND RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
At Footsteps Africa, we understand access to and control over water is a key driver for empowering women to improve their health, productivity and rights in dry-land areas in Malawi. Against this, we engage and build capacities of women to not only access clean water but also to take control over its productive and sustainable uses . In this way, we create a multiple outcome in women’s lives from improving access to clean water and food, building income capacities, and improving their rights.
ENDING GENDER POVERTY AND VULNERABILITY
Our approach centers around building sustainable community water structures that generate clean water, food, and income for rural farming women. In turn, food and income secure women to live independent lives free from gendered poverty and vulnerability.
OUR TEAM
OUR STORY
The appalling shortage of clean water structures and the social and economic barriers this creates in the lives of rural marginalized women living in dry-land areas provoked the foundation of Footsteps Africa. Footsteps Africa was founded on the basis of unconventionally using water to cascade incremental changes in the lives of marginalized women living in dry-land areas. The idea was to use access to clean water as the basis for achieving food and income security for majority of women living in dry-land areas in Malawi.
THE TEN PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES AT FOOTSTEPS AFRICA
The Ten Practical Sustainability Strategies at Footsteps Africa
At Footsteps Africa sustainability is an integral part of our work. This is reflected in our mission of work and what we do. Our whole organization mission of work and program strategies are built around sustainability. And we perceive sustainability through our key ten practical strategies:
- Promote water technologies that are maintainable at a local level
- Add livelihoods value to community water structures
- Empower women to take control over productive use of water structures
- Use and expand existing community/individual assets/capacities
- Challenge dependency mindset and Build self-help mind-set
- Transfer/share practical empowering skills and knowledge
- Organize women into leadership and groups/clubs
- Organize women to work with/in local markets
- Leverage power balance between staff and women
- Change conventional development approaches
OUR KEY PROGRAM STRATEGIES
- Focus on rights of marginalized women and their families
- Data driven planning and management
- Partnership and Collaboration
- Practical sustainability approaches
- Working with local markets
- Holistic impact of water. From clean water, food, income, gender, and rights of women
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OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
