Context
Traditionally, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming in the Red Cross Red Crescent network has focused on the needs of rural communities. With the increase of WASH needs in urban areas in the last decades, efforts were placed by the RCRC network in the past to operate in this context. National Societies like Philippines Red Cross, Kenya Red Cross and Nepal Red Cross, among others, extended their WASH operations to the urban area and helped to shape the Urban WASH discussion globally within the network. The first Urban WASH TWG was initiated in 2016 by IFRC with the development of the first IFRC position paper for Urban WASH in 2017. Lately several partners like Ghana Red Cross have introduced a different focus in Urban WASH and contributed to understand the different modalities and partnerships for delivering Urban WASH programming. Despite this progress several partners in the RCRC network pointed to the fact that, at present, WASH investment, efforts and technical expertise in urban context are still limited, and that current challenging trends associated to climate change urges the WASH RCRC network to update and scale up the scope of Urban WASH
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