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LIBERIA (ended Dec 2014)

The SWIFT programme initially included activities in Liberia as well as DRC and Kenya,
but the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa led to these activities being terminated
in December 2014.

Liberia_SWIFT Consortium for Sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Fragile Contexts

The SWIFT programme in Liberia was to be implemented by partners including Oxfam, Tearfund, WSUP, Concern Worldwide, the Association of Evangelicals of Liberia (AEL), Africa AHEAD and EQUIP Liberia.

Activities included rolling out the Community-Led Total Sanitation approach, as in Kenya, including supporting the construction of household pit latrines; setting up Community Health Clubs (CHCs), as in DRC; and hygiene promotion activities to achieve behaviour change.

Other activities planned included constructing hand-dug wells and hand-drilled wells; drilling boreholes; constructing gravity-spring systems; fitting public water stands; installing hand-pumps and solar-powered submersible pumps; and constructing elevated water-storage tanks.

SWIFT also planned to build capacity among local county teams from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and Ministry of Public Works.

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Since 2014, the Sustainable WASH In Fragile Contexts (SWIFT) Consortium has been working to provide access to water and sanitation and to encourage the adoption of basic hygiene practices in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and in Kenya. Various partners implement SWIFT’s actions in both target countries, in collaboration with governments as well as water providers, including utilities. The consortium is led by Oxfam, and includes Tearfund and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) as global members. The SWIFT programme is funded by UK aid from the UK government under a Payment by Results (PbR) contract.

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