The document analyzes Ghana's 2011 budget in relation to commitments made in the SWA Compact to prioritize and increase funding for the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector. The SWA Compact aims to articulate country strategies for measurable results in WASH. The analysis observes whether the 2011 budget aligns pipeline government and development partner programs and projects with national WASH plans, ensures sufficient costed investments to meet priority challenges, and strengthens country ownership, leadership, governance and accountability of the WASH sector.

1. Financing the WASH Sector:
Analyzing the 2011 Budget in Relation to the SWA
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2. Sector Statistics (2008)

3. The SWA Compact and its Aims

4. to articulate country
strategies for
measurable results

5. Enhancing Political Prioritization and
Commitment
Prioritizing Sanitation and Water as Essential Services
Linking Policies to Plans, Programmes and Projects
Ensuring that preparation of components of national plans
reflect sector priorities
O ur Commitments
Ensuring alignment of pipeline GoG/Development Partner
programmes and projects to national plans
Improving Investments to meet Priority Challenges
Ensuring that costed items of the MTDPF reflect sector investment plan levels
($350m/year)
Pursuing vigorous awareness raising for behavioural change (0.5% GDP)
Strengthening Ownership and Leadership
Ensuring that the direction of sector development is country-
led, country-owned and country-managed
Achieving Good Governance and Accountability
Pursuing the SWA framework for good governance
Adopt the GLAAS framework for reporting on sector
performance

6. Objective of the Analysis
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7. Observations