- LATIN AMERICA
How does everything happen?
Causes, effects, actions.
Multisectoral collaboration, which is also understood as collective intelligence, is a key element inside the implementation of our Program.
This multisectoral collaboration seeks to contribute to the fulfillment of the SDG 17 (Partnerships to Achieve the Goals) and strengthen the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
This is achieved through the mobilization and exchange of knowledge, technical capacity, technology and resources, by generating partnerships with different actors such as: experts, local governments, public and private companies, artistic groups, financial institutions in each territory, local entrepreneurs, water committees and other members of the communities.
Taking this into account, the purpose is to place communities at the center of all our actions; co-creating with, by and for them, products and services solutions around WASH We achieved all of this with the A-B-C Systemic Model for Sustainability and the Social Art for Behavior Change™ approach, both from the One Drop Foundation
The Model
Our Sustainability A-B-C Model for Sustainability ™, seeks to reduce barriers and to empower drivers that make it easier for communities to adopt the right behaviors to improve their health and quality of life.
Discover how we innovate socially with our model and approach in the following case study.
Behavioral change (B)
Component B is developed through the Social Art for Behavior Change SABC™, approach, which promotes the implementation of key behaviors around WASH.
This approach has 3 strategic pillars to empower communities to be the key players and leaders of the projects, thereby contributing to sustainability:
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Likewise, as a program that is part of our interventions, we attempt to mobilize communities towards the practice of key behaviors such as:
- • Hand washing with soap and water at key moments.
- Appropriate treatment and storage of water at home.
- Payment of the water and/or sanitation service fee.
Read the article published by a scientific journal that shows how social art had a direct impact on the behavior of communities.
Each SABC™ intervention comes from formative research and taking into account contextual, psychosocial and technological determinants of behavior, through participatory processes, inspired by the local context, nourished by cultural and artistic references.
Capital (C)
Component C is focused on the development of the local WASH market, through the strengthening of the chain of value that involves suppliers of goods and services, financial entities, organizational community structures, local authorities, among others. It benefits the offer of technical-financial solutions, adapted to the socioeconomic context of the communities and supporting local enterprises and MSMEs.
By providing benefitial conditions for the development of markets through capital access, the Program participants were able to have timely and sustainable access to WASH services and products, for the benefit of their households.
Discover the strategies to strengthen the local value chain in the countries where we operate.
“From this project results in an empowered community, a community that was not just given a project, but rather one that has participated in each one of the stages”.
Ligia Caicedo, Tumaco, Colombia.
Jennifer Madrid
Ecobon’s Leaders of Change, Entrepreneur, “Agua para ConvidArte” Project. Tumaco, Colombia
The integration between these three aspects is what allows us to work in a systemic way, considering all the actors in the sector, articulating them in order for each one to find the barriers that must be reduced or the drivers that must be strengthened.this way, we are co-creating with, by and for the community the favorable environments to provide sustainable access to water and sanitation. Its highlighted the key role of community leaders trained as Leaders of Change, fundamental pieces in the implementation of practices that increase the people’s life quality at an individual, interpersonal and community level.
Gender-transformative approach
The water has a woman's face.
- Women’s participation in water decision-making processes continues to be extremely low.
- In households without safe drinking water, many children help their mothers to collect water. In Latin America, this is also a children’s crisis.
- Globally, it is estimated that women spend more than 200 million hours a day in search of safe water.
Even though the Lazos de Agua Program did not have a gender-transformative approach from its design, providing access to water has a direct and positive impact on women
From our five projects, Agua para ConvidArte from Tumaco Colombia, developed a gender transformative approach with the leadership of the PLAN Foundation, which has been an implementing partner in the area since the beginning. Discover this exciting journey, source of inspiration for the next phase of the Lazos de Agua 2 Program in this article.
Toolbox
SABC
Our toolbox is the place where you can find the collected experiences throughout the program from the different territories, categorized by thematic axes such as: WASH, SABC, innovation, gender equality, sustainability, among others. You will be able to filter the content based on the type of format, country or behavior worked on.
Sprockler
Explore this interactive tool where you will learn about the experiences and impact, immediate and long term, that Lazos de Agua Program members, especially Leaders of Change, have experienced after participating in the SABC interventions of our systemic model.
Following a specific methodology, the implementing partners conducted interviews with Leaders of Change in the form of conversations that reveal the impact at the individual and community level of the SABC approach processes, a fundamental pillar in the implementation of Lazos de Agua.
Find out when the events take place.
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