Short name application: Sustainable and universal access to Sanitation, Water and Hygiene (WASH); ASWA II NL Long name application: Towards Universal The programme will promote sustained use of safe water supplies and sanitation services, and sustained adoption of hygiene practices in targeted areas (see below), including in fragile countries. It will focus on poor and vulnerable people, and on women and girls. The program contributes to improved health (e.g. by preventing cholera diseases), improved nutrition and well being of the targeted people. It also aims to positively contribute to a reduction of “children on the move” (Migration along the entire migration route). This programme is the follow-up of the succesful Dutch funded ASWA WCA programme in nine West- and Central African countries. (For six countries this program ended in 2017. It still runs in Guinee, Sierra Leone, Liberia – countries that were struck by Ebola, and where the development program was suspended consequently. For these countries the program will end in 2019.) As to the IOB evaluation (2012-2015) regarding Dutch cooperation with the UN development system the former UNICEF ASWA WCA programme has substantially contributed to the Dutch goals for drinking water and sanitation. The new ASWA II NL programme will build on its experience and lessons learnt form the previous program (see 2.2.1) in providing equitable access to WASH and will therefore (a) shift its focus to strenghtening sector systems to sustain outcomes; (b) shift towards a more integrated approach to WASH access at community level; (c) shift from a project approach towards sector wide approach in terms of the sustainability framework, and (d) consolidate implementation models to develop an investment case/financing plan for rural WASH.