Project YAKU explores how community water governance affects the health of children under five in the Andean and Maghreb regions. This webinar will present results from Phase I of Project YAKU.
Unsafe drinking water, lack of proper sanitation, and the presence of stagnant water rank among the main causes of under five child mortality in the Andean and Maghreb regions. Adequate water and sanitation management systems are necessary to counter the spread of infectious vector- and water-borne diseases. The Project YAKU team is working to identify effective cross-sectoral strategies that can significantly reduce mortality rates by improving water governance models. Using a transdisciplinary approach, Project YAKU examines four governance aspects – legal, managerial, participatory, and intergovernmental – to support the child mortality targets of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals.
In this webinar, Project YAKU team members will present on the Phase I results of the project, which focused on providing a comprehensive snapshot of water governance challenges.
This webinar will take place on 21 April 2026 at 12pm EST / 6pm CET.
Project YAKU is part of The Belmont Forum‘s Collaborative Research Action ‘Climate, Environment, and Health 2’. It receives funding from the Mountain Research Initiative in the Andes region as part of our collaboration under Conéctate A+.
Cover photo by Janilson Furtado.