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Two new UN reports show where we are and where it is we want to get to; now it's time to step up national leadership. Read more...
What is needed to eliminate inequalities and achieve universal access to sanitation? Read more...
During the Thursday morning monitoring and learning session at IRC's All systems go! participants discussed factors than enable or hamper use of monitoring data in evidence-based decision making. Read more...
Why should I care about measuring and monitoring? Well, if you don't measure before you make a change and monitor it over time, how will you know if your change is making a difference (positive or negative)? Read more...
IRC Perspectives: day 3 and day 4 of the Stockholm World Water Week 2018 Read more...
If we want to leave no one behind, we not only need to know who is left behind, but also how far behind they are. Read more...
Countries must now set their own realistic national targets and start monitoring them. Read more...
Innovations can revitalise the global partnership for sustainable development - if we rise responsibly to the challenge of measuring their impact. Read more...
Increasing interest in the Agenda for Change and investments in the systems approach. Read more...
The latest institutional developments around Goal 6 for water and sanitation were presented at World Water Week in Stockholm Read more...
Over the last 25 years, a unique UN partnership has developed a robust monitoring mechanism that can support the goal of universal access. Read more...
While reviewing experiences with the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLAAS), it is clear that there is a need to strengthen systematic, comprehensive, country-led processes which feed global monitoring. Read more...
In this blog on the UN-Water meeting that was held in Geneva last month, Joseph Pearce and Ton Schouten give an intriguing insight in the monitoring of the new sustainable development goal (SDG) for water. They argue that the SDGs, as they are now formulated, demand for strengthening national... Read more...
How long it will take for everyone to get access to water and sanitation? Alternative statistical methods and data harmonisation hold the answer. Read more...
Universal coverage of water, sanitation and hygiene looks set to be included in the Sustainable Development Goals. What finally ends up in these goals will determine the agenda for the WASH sector for decades to come. Read more...