WASHwatch is an online platform that monitors global water and sanitation progress. It aims to enhance collaboration around monitoring by gathering the most up-to-date WASH data and information in one publicly accessible place. This allows users to track country-level commitments, progress, and statistics to inform advocacy and decision-making. The platform also enables users to share their own knowledge and evidence to challenge or support reported progress, contributing to transparent and collaborative monitoring at both national and global levels.

1. WASHWATCH
K E E P W A T C H O N W A S H

2. Why monitoring?
• It identifies gaps/challenges and reveal what works and what
does not work.  It can help officials make informed
decisions about targeting resources in the most equitable
way.
• Collaborative monitoring shows governments
that Citizens are mobilised around WASH issues and hold
their government to account  It can motivates
governments to take action.
• It allows making regional, national and even global
comparisons (within certain limits )  a motivation factor to
do better than the others and not be the bad student.

3. WASHwatch: introduction
Why is monitoring important?
• To track progress: where are we at?
• To improve accountability: is my
country meeting its promise?
• To demonstrate impacts of efforts to
improve conditions and services:
what have we learned?

4. WASHwatch: introduction
WASHwatch is an online platform.
Its mission is to enhance
collaboration to monitor global
water and sanitation progress
WASHwatch is funded by the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. It is
administered by WaterAid but operates
independently

5. Find your country’s latest WASH developments
to inform your work. Much vital WASH data is scattered
across the internet, buried in reports or hidden in desk drawers.
WASHwatch gathers the most up-to-date and reliable information
in one public and easily accessible place, to help you work
effectively to improve global WASH access.
Find out about your country’s latest WASH
commitments and progress. View comments from other
WASHwatch collaborators who have reported on their countries’
performance towards commitments. You can even compare your
country’s performance with that of others.
WASHwatch: introduction
- How does WASHwatch adresses these
shortfalls?

6. How does the WASHwatch
website work?

7. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (1/7)
Select a
country

8. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (2/7)
Each country
is broken
down into
three main
sections,
accessed
through the
tabs.

9. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (3/7)
Declarations and commitments tab: Click on a declaration to view commitments
and evidence of progress shared by WASHwatch contributors like you
Evidence of progress
is gathered next to
the commitment
they refer to.

10. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (4/7)
Evidence opens in a
pop up window

11. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (5/7)
Country profile: Find information about monitoring and coordination mechanisms
in your country, as well as main policies

12. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (6/7)
Les statistiques sont mis a jours
tous les six mois et proviennent de
sources fiables (OMS, UNICEF, …)
mais sont aussi ouverts aux
commentaires.
Statistics: View your country’s WASH-related statistics

13. How does the WASHwatch
platform work? (7/7)
The
interactive
maps show
progress
around the
globe

14. Q&A
Q: Can anyone submit their in-country knowledge to
WASHwatch?
A: Because all point of views should be heard, WASHwatch is committed to
publish any information shared with the team within 24 hours. with name of
the source. It is to the user to decide if the source is a valuable source or
not.
Q: Is WASHwatch regularly updated?
A: WASHwatch is updated every 6 month with the latest data available and
we add information related to progress on commitments as soon as they are
made available.
Q: Is WASHwatch sustainable?
Many monitoring website die after only few years. WASHwatch is committed
to remain available and to archive monitoring knowledge.

15. How can you use and contribute
to WASHwatch?
WASHwatch is only as good as
the use you make of it &
the information you put into it!

16. GET your voice heard &
SHARE your knowledge (1/3)
Share your comments and evidence to challenge
governments and donors reported progress on
commitments.
Your evidence of progress
will be added next to the
commitment it refers to

17. GET your voice heard &
SHARE your knowledge (2/3)
What kind of knowledge should you share?
WASH DATA & INFO such as government spending toward
WASH, alternative WASH access data, dates of Joint Sector Review,
info on national WASH platform, links to online monitoring
platform (such as presimetre), sector coordinator contacts …
• OFFICIAL DOCUMENT such as a strategy, plans, budgets, Joint Sector
Reviews, meeting minutes, statements of commitments, …
• INFORMAL EVIDENCE such as observations, news articles, speeches,
letters
• SECTOR ANNALYSIS such as assessment of current behaviours,
analysis of what needs to change to deliver better WASH services …
EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS TOWARD COMMITMENTS

18. info@washwatch.org
Or send us an email
GET your voice heard &
SHARE your knowledge (3/3)
How to share your knowledge?

19. STAY UPDATED
Subscribe to WASHwatch
updates to get an email
whenever a new evidence on
the countries that interest
you is added to the site.

20. KEEP your website
updated on WASH
Click on the icon <>
and follow
instructions
See an
example on
the Share
research
website

21. COMPARE countries

22. The information gathered on WASHwatch and several
functionalities can help you develop advocacy briefs,
develop your analysis of the sector…
This is what End Water Poverty did to develop their
report on “Realising the Human Right to
Water and sanitation”:
USE the WASHwatch data

23. STAY UPDATED
WASHwatch
@WASHwatch
info@washwatch.org
WWW .washwatch.org