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The WASHREG approach is a multi-stakeholder diagnosis used to identify national regulation gaps and challenges in water and sanitation services provision. The implementation of the methodology facilitates the development of a set of actions and practical solutions for initiating a process of creating, strengthening, or aligning regulatory roles and responsibilities. For water and sanitation services, there is no single model for a good regulatory framework and its implementation. Every country has its own institutional and legal settings that face a wide range of different challenges (THE WASHREG APPROACH GOOD PRACTICES IN RURAL AREAS). One more learning, one more winning. #WASH Project implementation #Sanitation #Hygiene SIWI - Stockholm International Water Institute; Sida; Cap-Net UNDP; UNICEF

Civil Society leaders from across Latin America issue an urgent Call to Action for financing water and sanitation ahead of the Finance Ministers’ Meeting tomorrow in Washington, D.C., on the sidelines of World Bank Spring Meetings!  The meeting presents a unique opportunity to catalyze much-needed investment plans for the sector, thereby accelerating the attainment of human rights to water and sanitation- a key ask from Civil Society. To address the myriad water, sanitation, and hygiene inequalities experienced across the region, Sanitation and Water for All - a UNICEF-hosted global partnership Civil Society constituency recommends Finance Ministers:  1️⃣ Provide financing for the most marginalized through a pre-determined percentage of GDP for water, sanitation, and hygiene, and investing in community-based services 2️⃣ Mobilise more funding by improving sector efficiencies. In partnership with Sector Ministers, recommendations include increasing domestic resource availability, taxing the super-rich and multimillion-dollar corporations, establishing robust mechanisms for public discourse related to financial allocation and utilization of funds, implementing tools for transparency and accountability for public oversight of investments, creating and strengthening mechanisms for participation for transparent budget processes and allocating funds to comply with legislation protecting the environment 3️⃣ Maximise benefits from existing funding by improving subsidy targeting to expand subsidies to households without piped water connections 4️⃣ Ensure innovative financing solutions are implemented with integrity through climate adaptation and mitigation investment and good governance processes preventing corruption in climate finance 5️⃣ Safeguard the interests of the marginalized during times of austerity and debt crisis by avoiding budget cuts to essential services such as water and sanitation and negotiating responsible borrowing and lending provisions to allow contingencies for climate disasters and pandemics  Read this powerful call of action on the link below ⬇ Muyatwa Sitali Ana Acevedo Yalkiria Pineda Kenneth Alfaro Alvarado Mark Duey Lucinda O'Hanlon Nathalie Seguin Water.org Water For People WaterAid Sam Taylor Claire Seaward Claire Schouten Sareen Malik Jade Worner

"At the current speed" Who do we want to point the finger at? When you read 'Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024', Goal 6 - report on Clean water and sanitation, it will make you reflect after seeing the words 'At the current speed'. We made many plans for 'accelerating change ' last year. A year later we criticize our own plans by calling it 'At the current speed'.. what happened to the speed plan we had? What happened to the 'working four times faster' approach to achieve SDG 6 on time? Or the concept was just well known around directors, managers, and water experts. Where was the role of the community? I still believe solving the water and sanitation crisis needs everyone’s effort and commitment. It's time to localize water information to the communities for a better future. ➡️ Read more: https://lnkd.in/dMqMEjrH #WaterCrisis #SDGreport United Nations Water WaterAid East Africa Simavi Sanitation and Water for All - a UNICEF-hosted global partnership J. D'Alba Axel Böhm Krystol Carfaro Prof. Dr. Khin-Ni-Ni Thein Colin Herron Ojonugwa Yahaya BURHANI M MUSTAPHA

PRO-WASH & SCALE Small Grants Program 🗓️ Deadline: May 10, 2024 (5:00 PM ET) The PRO-WASH & SCALE program is soliciting applications for research to identify climate resilient approaches that can be adapted and used in emergency settings. This request for applications (RFA) seeks proposals to address priority evidence gaps in enhancing climate resilience in emergency settings within PRO-WASH & SCALE’s focus sectors of water, sanitation, hygiene, agriculture, markets, livelihoods, and/or natural/watershed resource management, with the overall goal of improving food security and nutrition programming. Under this RFA, Save the Children Federation, Inc. will fund one award up to USD $125,000 for a study period of up to 16 months. For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/d3BeHEWY #ClimateResilience #EmergencySettings #FoodSecurity #Nutrition #Research

Across the globe, millions still lack access to safe water and basic sanitation—particularly in rural areas. To tackle this critical issue, #SIRWASH (Sustainable and Innovative Rural Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) was launched to enhance access to clean water and sanitation services for vulnerable populations in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, and Peru. Drawing on Switzerland's 20+ years of expertise in rural WASH systems, SIRWASH builds on successful models like SABA in Peru and ASIR SABA in Colombia. With strong support from strategic partners such as the Inter-American Development Bank and Young Water Solutions, SIRWASH is committed to delivering safe, sustainable, and high-quality WASH services. 🌟 𝐊𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟𝐟 𝐎𝐮𝐫 ‘𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬’ 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐧: 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥 This month, we’re highlighting the incredible work happening in Brazil. Follow along as we share inspiring stories, successes, and the positive impact SIRWASH is making in rural communities across the country.  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation | #SIRWASH #ruralWASH #WaterForAll #SanitationForAll #CleanWater #Brazil #RuralDevelopment #2030Agenda #SDG6 #Sustainability 

The AIP welcomes the launch of the United Nations Systems-Wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation. Africa - and the world - needs system-wide coordination and delivery of water and sanitation priorities, as well as support to individual countries in formulating and executing national plans to increase water investments. The Strategy confirms that water is a dealmaker for the Sustainable Development Goals and the health and prosperity of people and their natural environment. 🎯 Lead and inspire collective action on water and sanitation; 🤝 Engage better for countries by leveraging whole-of-UN system support and by mobilizing stakeholders and partnerships for water and sanitation; 🔗 Align UN system support for the integration of water and sanitation issues across sectors and mainstreaming into intergovernmental processes; 🚀 Accelerate progress and transformational change by unifying UN system support through the five SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) global accelerators – financing, data and information, capacity development, innovation, and governance; and 📖 Account for progress through joint review and learning. #sdg6 #waterafrica #waterfordevelopment #investinwater #mindthegap

I am grateful for all of the important messages in this strong #water, #sanitation, #hygiene speech from USAID's Michele Sumilas at the #Brazil #G20. Highlights: “First, we must collectively build political will for water and sanitation as stand-alone priorities, not just as inputs to other goals…   We must also acknowledge that the financing gap for water and sanitation infrastructure, operations, and maintenance – estimated at US $140.8 billion every year – is too great for donors to fill alone. The 2015 United Nations Financing for Development conference emphasized the importance of domestic resource mobilization for developing countries to achieve the SDGs. Yet, annual spending in the water sector for low-income countries is only about .5 percent of total GDP…   Finally, we must engage in collective action with marginalized communities, including Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, people living in informal settlements, as well as women and girls, in all their diversity…   Through domestic and international cooperation with these communities and others, we can put the vision of universal access within reach.” Please review and share: https://lnkd.in/e5jr8Wyn

🎉 New resolution on the human rights to water and sanitation 🎉 At its 57th session, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council adopted resolution A/HRC/57/L.23/Rev.1 on the human rights to water and sanitation. The resolution, introduced by Germany and Spain, was adopted without a vote. More than 50 states from all world regions explicitly endorsed the resolution as co-sponsors, underlining the broad support for this issue. We are pleased to see that in response to calls from civil society to address insufficient progress in the actual realisation of these rights, the Council decided to convene a panel discussion focused on the realisation of the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation at its 59th session in 2025. The panel discussion also aims to ensure mainstreaming of the human rights to water and sanitation into the 2026 UN Water Conference - an important step to make sure that the lack of attention for the issue at the previous UN Water Conference in 2023. It's time to #MakeRightsReal Laura van de Lande Hannah Neumeyer Naomi Carrard Diana Gonzalez Botero Tseguereda Abraham Chisomo Manthalu Juliet Willetts Catarina de Albuquerque Virginia Roaf Alexandra Höhne Lenka K. Arnd Boekhoff Michael Fritz Nathalie Seguin Roland Hansen WaterAid University of Technology Sydney Simavi Alana Potter Malteser International German Toilet Organization End Water Poverty Viva con Agua Auswärtiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office) Germany AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACION INTERNACIONAL PARA EL DESARROLLO - AECID

Misdiagnosis of Water Challenges in Gauteng for political expediency. For Growth and Progress it is significant to develop Critical Thinking Capacity in the Water and Sanitation Sector and other areas of our country. We should avoid suffering from the Dunning - Kruger Effect or Syndrome The Dunning-Kruger Effect can have a significant impact on ordinary people, industry leaders and politicians in general, leading to some pretty concerning consequences. Essentially, this psychological phenomenon occurs when individuals who lack knowledge or skills in a particular area overestimate their abilities and underestimate the abilities of others. Yet occupy and deteemine the public discourse. In politics and leadership, this can manifest in several ways: - Overconfidence in decision-making: Politicians and leaders may make decisions without fully understanding the complexities of the issues, leading to uninformed and potentially harmful policies postulations. - Resistance to expert advice: Those affected by the Dunning-Kruger Effect may dismiss expert opinions and advice, believing they know better, even when they don't. Their interest being to score political point at the expense of well run instituions led by committed and knowledgeable professionals. - Misinformation and spreading false facts: Politicians and influencial leaders may share misinformation or false facts, convinced of their own knowledge and expertise, without fact-checking or verifying information, or intentionally ignoring facts presented to them. - Polarization and divisiveness: The Dunning-Kruger Effect can lead politicians and leaders to become overly entrenched in their views, refusing to listen to opposing perspectives or consider alternative solutions. - Lack of self-awareness: Politicians and leaders may not recognize their own limitations and biases, making it difficult for them to adapt or change their positions, even when faced with new information . It's essential to note that the Dunning-Kruger Effect can affect anyone, regardless of intelligence, positions, or education level. The key to mitigating its impact is to promote critical thinking, self-awareness, and open-mindedness in life, organisations and politics. Many great leaders, professionals and their innocent families have suffered emmensely due to the Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. The article below by Malaika Mahlatsi (Wa Azania) is a demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger Effect related to the water challenges in Gauteng. Had this syndrome not become the provincial and national discourse then, Water and Sanitation challenges would have been dealt with timeously. AWSISA remains vigilant to detect and protect its members against such tendencies and narratives. https://lnkd.in/esM2WUdN

At the current rate, countries worldwide will only achieve safe #water and #sanitation for all by the 22nd century ⚠ In the pan-European region, 16 million people still lack access to basic drinking water services and over 29 million people do not have access to basic sanitation, including hundreds of thousands who have to practice open defecation. As part of practical measures under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe/WHO Regional Office for Europe Protocol on #Water and #Health, explore how #Albania is taking steps to close #data gaps on equity in accessing #water & #sanitation. This will support targeted action to improve access for vulnerable and marginalized communities. Under the Protocol, a number of guidance documents and tools have been developed to assist countries and other stakeholders in driving action on the water, sanitation, #hygiene, and health agenda, in line with global and regional processes such as the #2030Agenda for #SustainableDevelopment and the #EuropeanUnion Directives, particularly the #DrinkingWaterDirective recast, which emphasizes the need to ensure safe access to water and sanitation for vulnerable and marginalized communities. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/dwMQxwx3