The document summarizes an upcoming review of the SWA Partnership. The review aims to strengthen the partnership by evaluating its progress towards objectives, effectiveness and efficiency of activities, and strategic direction. It will examine the partnership's contribution to universal access to sanitation and water, and how partners work together to achieve impact. The review will involve consultations with SWA partners, country visits, and other stakeholders. It will produce a report with conclusions and recommendations to guide the future development of the SWA Partnership.

1. SWA Progress Review
Initial Framing
Ken Caplan & Leda Stott
12 november 2013
SWA Partnership Meeting 2013

2. Aims of review
To strengthen the SWA Partnership
with recommendations for how it can better achieve
intended outcomes and overall mission.
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3. Our premise
Partnerships involve two or more organisations that
enter into a collaborative arrangement based on:
1. synergistic goals and opportunities that address
particular issues or deliver specified tasks that single
organisations cannot accomplish on their own as
effectively; and
2. whose individual organisations cannot purchase the
appropriate resources or competencies purely
through a market transaction.
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Source: Building Partnerships for Development & AccountAbility

4. Our premise
Ultimate effectiveness and impact (sustainability) rests
upon institutionalized mechanisms and practices.
As partnerships are dynamic, it is important to remember
that:
1. the basis of legitimacy changes over time.
2. at certain points the partnership will need to transition
or may no longer be necessary.
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5. What will we be looking at?
How is the SWA partnership doing
in three key areas:
• Progress towards achieving objectives (Impact)
• Logic and appropriateness of existing activities,
operational management and governance
arrangements (Effectiveness / Efficiency)
• Strategic direction & relationship to other processes
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6. What will we be looking at?
The impact of the SWA Partnership
 Contribution to universal access to sanitation and water services
 Intensity and quality of SWA interventions within and between
priority areas:
• Getting sanitation and water on the political map
• Endorsing and supporting the global monitoring landscape
• Strengthening country processes
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7. What will we be looking at?
How partners work together to achieve this
impact
 Governance arrangements and minimization of
transaction costs
 Efficiency and effectiveness of partner relationships
 Delivery and measurement of activities (where feasible)
 Added value of partnership
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8. Key discussion areas
• Partner incentives
Risks and benefits of participation for partners & ability to make and
deliver on commitments
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Partnership accountability
Systems and procedures in place for ensuring compliance,
transparency and responsiveness
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Strategic direction
Contribution of SWA in key priority areas
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9. “Mutual” Accountability
• Clarity around who the partnership is accountable to and why
• Satisfaction with governance, decision-making, management
and operational systems
• Systems and procedures in place for ensuring:
• Compliance – whereby partners and SWA more generally are held to
account for its/their own commitments
• Transparency – whereby SWA gives an account of its strategic goals
and links between goals and activities
• Responsiveness – whereby SWA (through component parts) takes
account of and balances decisions around recommendations made by
its constituencies and evidence derived from SWA or other initiatives
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10. How will we work?
Use of critical friend model
Critical friends:
• generate information through confidential (as required)
discussions that offer new perspectives or ideas
• ask challenging but constructive questions to
understand the logic and appropriateness of SWA
strategy, mechanics, etc.
• make recommendations as a function of a supportive
and objective overview
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11. How will we work?
Phase 1: November 2013 - February 2014
Desk review - familiarization, comparison with similar
global partnerships. Consultations with:
- SWA Partners (including management groups &
individuals)
- Data gathering from 10 selected countries (potential
for 2 visits)
- GLAAS and key players in global monitoring
environment
- Partners engaged in NPRI country dialogues
- Wider stakeholders
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12. How will we work?
Phase 2: March - June 2014
- Review of preparations for HLM 2014
- Post-meeting review of HLM 2014
- Follow-up in selection of countries/agencies making
HLM commitments
- Review of responses to draft report
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13. What will we produce?
Report with conclusions and recommendations for
publication after 2014 HLM.
Report will include:
• Lessons learned
• Indicators for success
• Guidance on future development of SWA
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14. For more information:
Ken Caplan
Leda Stott
WASH specialist
Partnership specialist
kenc@bpdws.org
lstott@telefonica.net
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