The project aims to reduce environmental threats to the health and livelihoods of urban slum dwellers, thus helping to reduce poverty in four towns in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. It will do this by developing and promoting an integrated approach to improving the urban environment, which works at the neighbourhood level in ways which are driven by, and improve the livelihoods of, poor women and men.

The project is analyzing the viability of win-win situations for municipalities and farmers through the composting of municipal organic waste, co-composting of solid waste with night soil, and direct night soil application.

The Multiple Use Systems (MUS) project is a partnership of professionals from the productive and domestic water sectors, and from the research and implementation communities. It focuses on developing tested tools and guidelines for multiple-use water services delivery as an effective way to use water for poverty alleviation and gender equity. Activities are currently underway in rural and peri-urban areas of five major river basins and eight countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.The project works through so-called learning alliances to develop locally-specific innovations and build capacity for scaling up. The MUS project is part of the Challenge Program on Water and Food.

The SWITCH project aims to achieve a paradigm shift in urban water management to get sustainable, healthy and safe urban water systems. This paradigm shift will be realized by a consortium of 32 organisations from 13 countries under coordination of UNESCO-IHE in partnership with the European Union - DG Research.