COWASH IV Joins Ethiopia's Green Legacy Initiative

ChanchoAugust 19,2024

COWASH IV Improves Water Access, Quality, and Resilience of the Abaye Boreta Spring Water Supply System in Wondo Genet Woreda

Sidama, Ethiopia2024

COWASH IV: Clean Water Transforms Garbe Primary School

Sidama, Ethiopia2024

Ethiopia and Finland launched 30 years of WASH collaboration celebration 

Addis Ababa, EthiopiaJune 13, 2024

COWASH IV Delivered a Successful Training Program on the Project's Communication Framework and WASH Reporting

Adama, EthiopiaMay 21 to 22, 2024

COWASH IV Delivered a Successful Training on Basic Financial Management and Record-Keeping for WASH MSEs

Adama, EthiopiaMay 21 to 22, 2024

COWASH IV holds critical Core Planning Meeting for the last Ethiopian Fiscal Year of the project

Arba Minch, EthiopiaApril 23 to 24, 2024


COWASH IV Federal Technical Assistance Team Holds Productive Quarterly Meeting

April 16-19, 2024Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Federal Technical Assistance Team Holds Productive Quarterly Meeting

April 12, 2024Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV is pleased to welcome Counsellor Virpi Turunen, Climate Change and Water, UNECE and UNDRR officer at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Yem Zone, Central Ethiopia


COWASH IV's Federal Technical Assistance Team meets with WASH Saving and Loan Associations to discuss their potential evolution into Rural Water and Sanitation Credit Cooperatives

Yem Zone, Central EthiopiaMarch 19-20, 2024


Wesha Primary teachers, equipped by COWASH IV, teach students menstrual hygiene and the production of reusable sanitary pads, promoting a healthy and sustainable future

February, 2024Wondo Genet, Ethiopia


COWASH IV successfully delivered a Social Behavior Change (SBC) on-the-job training program in South Ethiopia

February 26-27, 2024Kucha Alpha and Gacho Baba Woredas, South Ethiopia


Finnish Delegation Visits COWASH IV Project Sites in Sidama Region

February 9-10, 2024Sidama, Ethiopia



From community water points to institutional solutions: Witness the transformative power of COWASH IV's work in Sidama Region

Sidama, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Gender and Disability inclusion specialists completed gender and disability analysis and mainstreaming training program in Kenya.
January 22- 26, 2024Nairobi, Kenya

COWASH IV National Steering Committee Meeting
January 18, 2024Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Team Welcomes Water Sector Advisor from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Jukka Ilomaki
January 18, 2024Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

COWASH IV distributing comic books on menstrual health to schools
December 15, 2023Yirgalem, Ethiopia

COWASH IV Menstrual Hygiene Management Training in Yirgalem, Sidama Region.

December 12 – 15, 2023Yirgalem, Ethiopia


NIRAS Finland Director Mari Helminen and project controller Niina Käcklund Visited COWASH IV project office in Addis Ababa.

December 4 – 5, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Collaborates in World Toilet Day 2023 Celebration to Promote Sanitation and Hygiene in Ethiopia.

November 23, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Holds First Knowledge Sharing Workshop

November 6-9, 2023Hawassa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Benishangul Gumuz Regional Support Unit (RSU) 2016EFY annual review and planning meeting

October 26- 27, 2023Assosa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV provided on-the-job training to a small-scale microfinance enterprise engaged in providing WASH products in Chirone Woreda.

October 18, 2023Chirone, Sidama, Ethiopia


COWASH IV provided on-the-job training to a small-scale microfinance enterprise engaged in providing WASH products in Arbegona Woreda.

October 17, 2023Arbegona, Sidama, Ethiopia


COWASH IV FTAT took basic life support aid training at the Ethiopian Red Cross Society Training Institute.

October 12, 2023.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV training of trainers on WASH saving and loan association establishment.

October 4-5, 2023Tarcha, South West Ethiopia People's Region


COWASH IV training of trainers on gender, disability inclusion and women leadership

October 2- 3, 2023Tarcha, South West Ethiopia People's Region


COWASH IV Tigray Regional Steering Committee Holds First Meeting.

September 21, 2023Mekele, Ethiopia


Sidama Regional Support Unit 2016 EFY annual review and planning meeting in Yirgalem

September 14, 2023Yirgalem, Ethiopia

COWASH IV FTAT lends vehicle to Tigray RSU

September 10, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV National WASH Steering Committee meeting in Helsinki.

August 28, 2023Helsinki, Finland


COWASH IV RSUs Receive New Project Vehicles Donated by Finland

August 22, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV regions joined for a Joint National/Regional Steering Committee meeting in Addis Ababa.

August 22, 2023 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


NIRAS Finland Director Mari Helminen and project controller Niina Käcklund Visited COWASH IV project office in Addis Ababa.

December 4 – 5, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


Finnish Ambassador Sinikka Antila meets Ethiopian Water & Energy Minister Dr. Habtamu Itefa.

November 28, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Collaborates in World Toilet Day 2023 Celebration to Promote Sanitation and Hygiene in Ethiopia.

November 23, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Holds First Knowledge Sharing Workshop

November 6-9, 2023Hawassa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV Benishangul Gumuz Regional Support Unit (RSU) 2016EFY annual review and planning meeting

October 26- 27, 2023Assosa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV provided on-the-job training to a small-scale microfinance enterprise engaged in providing WASH products in Chirone Woreda.

October 18, 2023Chirone, Sidama, Ethiopia


COWASH IV provided on-the-job training to a small-scale microfinance enterprise engaged in providing WASH products in Arbegona Woreda.

October 17, 2023Arbegona, Sidama, Ethiopia


COWASH IV FTAT took basic life support aid training at the Ethiopian Red Cross Society Training Institute.

October 12, 2023.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV training of trainers on WASH saving and loan association establishment.

October 4-5, 2023Tarcha, South West Ethiopia People's Region


COWASH IV training of trainers on gender, disability inclusion and women leadership

October 2- 3, 2023Tarcha, South West Ethiopia People's Region


COWASH IV Tigray Regional Steering Committee Holds First Meeting.

September 21, 2023Mekele, Ethiopia


Sidama Regional Support Unit 2016 EFY annual review and planning meeting in Yirgalem

September 14, 2023Yirgalem, Ethiopia


COWASH IV FTAT lends vehicle to Tigray RSU

September 10, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV National WASH Steering Committee meeting in Helsinki.

August 28, 2023Helsinki, Finland


COWASH IV RSUs Receive New Project Vehicles Donated by Finland

August 22, 2023Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


COWASH IV regions joined for a Joint National/Regional Steering Committee meeting in Addis Ababa.

August 22, 2023 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia