DACAAR established Water Expertise and Training Centre (WET Centre) in July of 2010, in partnership with the Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology, in order to address the need for a WASH Knowledge Center in Afghanistan.

DACAAR’s expertise is based on providing WASH services to Afghan refugees in Pakistan for two decades (1986 – 2006) and in rural Afghanistan since 1990.The WET Centre provides capacity building trainings in WASH related subjects, offers technical and consulting support, performs water quality testing, conducts participatory action research studies and case studies.

Services are offered to NGOs, international organizations, government agencies, individuals, private sector companies, educational institutions, and researchers DACAAR have been providing WASH capacity building trainings since 2005 and to date have built capacity of more than 10,000 WASH practitioners of NGOs, UN, government and private sector at national and sub-national level through provision of around 600 WASH related training courses. The Centre publishes monthly and quarterly training plan and in addition, interested organizations and groups can request trainings which are customized to their needs.

When testing new technologies, for example, solar-powered water supply systems and reverse osmosis filtration, the WET Centre identifies gaps, makes recommendations and disseminates findings through learning exchanges, publications and other communication tools.

The DACAAR water quality testing laboratory is also providing water quality testing services to DACAAR WASH program and external clients i.e. NGOs, United Nations Offices, Government office and private sector.