Strong Women Strong World: Beyond Access Learning Initative

World Vision’s SWSW: Beyond Access programme helps remove barriers and open doors so women and girls can shine. We launched this program with a clear goal to go beyond providing access to conventional WASH and livelihoods programmes by truly placing women at the centre of all programme activities. By intentionally designing WASH, economic empowerment, and microfinance activities to build upon each other, we nurture women’s confidence and skills and address systemic barriers to their participation and agency.

Evidence exists on transformative approaches to WASH that focus on women and girls. However, limited programmes in the WASH sector have applied more transformative ideas into their programming. This is why learning is a core priority for Beyond Access.

SWSW: Beyond Access focuses on women’s and girls’ empowerment-centred interventions that are integrated and sequenced in a new way. World Vision wants to understand what is working well and what is not, so we can capture best practices that can be applied in future programmes. For such an innovative programme, a more iterative learning approach is needed. Read more about our Beyond Access learning approach and research partner.