Are you looking to take action following a corporate water risk assessment? Are you new to WASH* and need help navigating the best way to make an impact? Wherever your company is on its water journey, we can work with you.
Since 1981, WaterAid has reached 29 million people with clean water – but by joining forcing with the private sector, we can do so much more together. With your value chains and consumers extending into the farthest corners of the globe, your companies are uniquely placed to play a pivotal role in solving the water crisis.
Partnering with WaterAid enables your business to fulfill sustainability and corporate social responsibility commitments, directly benefiting your own operations while positively transforming lives both within and beyond the fence line. By prioritizing WASH, businesses like yours not only enhance their bottom line but also contribute to social and economic development in priority markets.
Access to WASH produces a positive return on investment for businesses. Clean water and sanitation leads to:
- Improved employee health and well-being
- Reduced absenteeism and staff turnover
- Increased efficiency, leading to increased productivity
Check out our groundbreaking Boosting Business research to learn more.
* WASH is a water industry acronym that stands for water, sanitation and hygiene.
Why partner with WaterAid?
We'll give you five good reasons
- WaterAid is a recognized thought leader on the business case for WASH. Our partners benefit from the latest thinking on how WASH interventions can fulfill sustainability commitments and address core business risks.
- WaterAid has a global presence with a deep understanding of local operating contexts and extensive relationships with local partners and influential stakeholders. Our expertise translates to concrete action with both bespoke and "shovel-ready" projects that guarantee sustainable return on investment.
- Partnerships with WaterAid deliver shared value. We help companies like yours fulfill ESG commitments around water, climate resilience, and other co-benefits like gender and health, while meeting the basic needs of communities within corporate supply chains and operational footprints.
- WaterAid has robust reporting systems in place to track the effectiveness of our work to close the WASH access gap. This means that our corporate partners gain a clear understanding of how their investment delivers quantifiable impact for households, communities and watersheds.
- WaterAid offers diverse partnership solutions to meet your unique needs. These include program co-creation for on-the-ground impact, employee engagement for workplace enrichment, cause marketing demonstrating corporate commitment to sustainability, and joint thought leadership and advocacy to influence policies and improve the enabling environment for WASH action
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Where we work
We are active in 22 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America, with offices in the United States, Australia, Canada, India, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Japan.
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The company we keep
A spotlight on some of our corporate partners
Our portfolio of corporate partnerships spans many sectors, including food and beverage, apparel, agribusiness, tech and fast-moving consumer goods. From regional advocacy initiatives to multi-year water infrastructure projects, no two partnerships are alike, but they are all share a common vision: ending the global water crisis.
Employee engagement and other ways to get involved
Employee engagement
Your employees bring passion and skills integral to achieving our mission of reaching everyone, everywhere with clean water, decent toilets and hygiene.
Your employees bring passion and skills integral to achieving our mission of reaching everyone, everywhere with clean water, decent toilets and hygiene.
We offer opportunities to mobilize employees and advance professional development goals while solving one of the world's most difficult challenges.
Payroll giving
Tax-deductible and effective: put your impact on autopilot, and we'll do the rest.
Tax-deductible and effective: put your impact on autopilot, and we'll do the rest.
Pre-tax pay-roll giving creates more moments like this above, people turning on taps for the first time at school, at home and in health care centers.
Brand partnerships
Incorporating social impact has become a must-have not a nice-to-have. Providing access to clean water is the number one cause that global consumers care about.
Incorporating social impact has become a must-have not a nice-to-have. Providing access to clean water is the number one cause that global consumers care about.
Our brand partnerships are a force for good, propelling social progress, fostering sustainable practices and bringing people together.
Meet our corporate partnerships team
Our partnerships team can help make your partnership ideas a reality. From employee engagement, to brand partnerships, the team collectively has a wide range of experiences building bespoke partnerships that suit your goals. Whether water stewardship in the workplace, to team building via employee events, we can help.
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