About Us

Established on 4 November, 1990, Environment and Public Health Organization (ENPHO) envisages to create eco-societies by providing quality services on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), environment and public health. Research, innovations and promotion of the WASH technologies and approaches have been the core priorities of ENPHO.

ENPHO, a service oriented, scientific, national non-governmental organization, is constantly striving towards sustainable community development, demonstration and dissemination of eco-friendly technologies including drinking water treatment options and sustainable sanitation systems. ENPHO promotes integrated community based approaches for safe water, sustainable sanitation, hygienic behavior, improving indoor air, and environmental and air quality monitoring for creating healthy and environment friendly societies.

Vision

Creating Eco-Societies

Mission

To develop, demonstrate and disseminate innovative technologies and systems to enable societies become healthy and environment friendly.

Strategic Objectives

  • Conduct applied research and develop innovative technologies that are acceptable to local communities;
  • Demonstrate eco-friendly technologies and practices;
  • Develop and implement effective strategies and programmes to promote eco-friendly societies;
  • Network with partners for coordination and advocacy;
  • Enhance local capacity.

Over the few years, ENPHO’s interventions have been focused in contributing to realization of the National SDG targets. Therefore, ENPHO is:

  • Advocating for safely managed drinking water services through local capacity building and scaling-up promotion of low-cost drinking water supply and treatment systems;
  • Demonstrating safely managed sanitation services by effective management of faecal sludge, wastewater and solid waste including promoting recycling and safe reuse;
  • Increasing improved access to safe WASH by Total Sanitation interventions;
  • Building local capacity on Urban WASH preparedness and community based disaster risk reduction;
  • Integrating urban agriculture with water optimization and sustainable sanitation systems as a potential climate change adaptation strategy.

ENPHO is governed by a General Assembly comprising of 118 members that elects an Executive Board once every three years. The Executive Director leads 255 staff members of which 47% are female.