Dutch soccer player Leonne Stentler visits girls empowerment project in Malawi

Together with the UEFA foundation, Simavi has implemented a programme to enhance awareness on gender equality and sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR).

2019 at Simavi: almost 95 years old, but still learning 

In 2019 we implemented a renewed and refreshed vision. Core of this vision: our work to empower women and girls socially and economically to enable them to pursue a healthy life.

Leave no one behind: Simavi in Stockholm

European Parliament candidates show their support for water

Sanitation and Water for All: end inequalities at the 2019 Sector Ministers’ Meeting

Africa-wide state of emergency on sanitation declared at AfricaSan – help needed

Pipe dream or possible: Reaching the furthest behind first in WASH sector?

Summary and main results of the side event held at the UNC Water and Health Conference on 1 November 2018.

Manifesto: Toilets for 50 million people by 2030

Minister Kaag stated in the Policy Notice ‘Investing in Perspective’ that 50 million more people must have access to sanitary facilities by 2030 (SGD6), with an interim target of providing 12 million extra people with sanitation by 2030. However if current trends don't change then this goal will not be achieved. We, the signatory organizations, one day after World Toilet Day, are asking parliament to address the Minister on this question next week when the 2019 Budget of Minister Kaag is discussed in Parliament.

Meet Simavi at the UNC Water and Health Conference

The Water Institute at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill is holding its annual Water and Health Conference from October 29–November 1, 2018. This week Simavi will attend the UNC Water and Health Conference: Where Science Meet Policy. The UNC Water Institute’s annual event has grown to become one of the most important gatherings in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector held in the United States.

Safeguarding Girls’ Sexual Health on Mafangano Island Kenya

What appears as a tropical paradise to the eye, soon reveals itself as a place with one of Africa’s most worrying health conditions. Young girls are easily persuaded into unsafe sex what causes high numbers of HIV infections as well as unprecedented numbers of unintended (teen) pregnancies.

Empowering girls to end child marriage

“People in our village think of girls as burden” says Sriti Kumari, 15 years old, from Deoghar, Jharkand, India. In Deoghar, the rate of child marriage is 52,7%. Our partner NEEDS is trying to Stop child marriage through the empowerment of adolescent girls, like Sriti.

Happy Anniversary SDGs! But should we be celebrating?

Anniversaries tend to be moments of remembrance and/or celebration. And on the third anniversary of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it seems like we should all take a moment to remember the commitments made, as opposed to purely celebrating them.