Sago Network

Sago Network is a not-for-profit NGO that partners with coastal and rural communities to improve access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.

Sago Network is a not-for-profit design-build community development company that collaborates with communities in Papua New Guinea to address water and sanitation challenges. The need to address these fundamental building blocks for healthy living is revealed by UN figures which show the extent of the challenge facing PNG's rural communities:

• 32% access to safe water supply (Global average 83% )
• 41% access to improved sanitation (Global average 58% )

Each project undertaken by Sago Network to address these water and sanitation challenges aims to place local people at the centre of their own development process, empowered with the decision-making ability to shape the project's core objectives and encouraged to make a meaningful contribution toward their achievement. The team's approach values process as highly as product - seeking to undertake a planning, design and construction process that is inclusive and capacity-building in nature toward its built objective.

Each project draws from a network of professional and student collaborators to form project teams that are uniquely tailored to the specific development challenge at hand. This project approach views the collaboration between local, professional and student team members as a true knowledge exchange and values local solutions and traditional culture highly.