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U.S. Implementation of the Water for the Poor Act: Small Steps for a Crisis That Calls for Great Strides

Five years after the passage of the act and with five years left until the deadline of 2015, meaningful progress has been limited by: a lack of strategic planning, inadequate political prioritization of WASH, poor integration of WASH in broader U.S. development strategies, too little capacity for WASH programming within USAID and the State Department, and poor targeting of U.S. aid to WASH. What are needed now are not small steps, but great strides to tackle one of the world’s greatest development challenges.

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