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Crosscutting Areas
SWA's COVID-19 & WASH Trello board

COVID-19 and Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH) Communication Toolkit

Year of publication:
2020
This collection of communications materials serves as way for organizations and individuals to share key policy messages on COVID-19 and WASH through professionally developed graphics and other materials at no cost. The materials are designed to be used online: website, social media, emailing or on any digital platform.
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Crosscutting Areas
Screenshot of the first page of the Call-to-Action follow-up tool

World Leaders Call for Action on COVID-19 - Follow-up Actions

Year of publication:
2020
This brochure compiles follow-up actions to the Leaders’ Call to Action which can be used by governments, civil society, external support agencies, private sector, research and learning, and individuals.
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Crosscutting Areas
Screenshot of the Call to Action Comms Toolkit Trello board

World Leaders Call to Action Communications Toolkit

Year of publication:
2020
This collection of publicly available communications materials aims to help promote the dissemination of key policy messages on the World Leaders Call to Action on WASH & COVID-19. The materials are designed to be used online: website, social media, emailing or on any digital platform.
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Crosscutting Areas
Screenshot of MH Day infographics collection website

Menstrual Hygiene Day Infographics

Year of publication:
2020
This collection of campaign infographics - available for anyone to download - aims to raise awareness on menstrual hygiene management (MHM). For the 28 May Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020, an infographic on the implications of COVID-19 on MHH has been created, including what action is needed during and after the pandemic.
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Crosscutting Areas
Screenshot of SWA's 10 year celebrating Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Trello board

10-year Anniversary of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Communication Toolkit

Year of publication:
2020
This collection of communications materials celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the human rights to water and sanitation serves as a way for organizations and individuals to share key messages on the principles of the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation. The materials are designed to be used online: website, social media, emailing or on any digital platform.
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Crosscutting Areas
Making Rights Real website screenshot

Making Rights Real (MRR)

Year of publication:
2019
MRR is an approach that enables civil society organisations to engage local government officials on systemic challenges to the realisation of water and sanitation services for all, using human rights.
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Crosscutting Areas
Understanding and addressing equality, non-discrimination and inclusion in water, sanitation and hygiene work

Understanding and addressing equality, non-discrimination and inclusion in water, sanitation and hygiene work

Year of publication:
2018
This toolkit gives practical guidance and support on reducing inequalities in WASH programme and advocacy work. It is primarily geared toward WaterAid staff and partners, but many of the principles and activities are equally relevant to other those working in other sectors of development.

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Planning Monitoring and Review
OECD Water Governance Indicator Framework

OECD Water Governance Indicator Framework

Year of publication:
2018
The Water Governance Indicator Framework provides a voluntary multi-stakeholder self-assessment tool to understand the performance of water governance systems at city, basin, regional or national scales. Its primary objective is to stimulate a transparent, neutral, open, inclusive and forward-looking dialogue across governments and other stakeholders on what works, what does not, what should be improved and who can do what. It is also a tool supporting the implementation of the OECD Principles on Water Governance.

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Planning Monitoring and Review
Implementing the OECD Principles on Water Governance

Implementing the OECD Principles on Water Governance

Year of publication:
2018
This report takes stock of the OECD Water Governance Principles’ use and evolving practices, and provides an indicator framework building on lessons learned from their implementation in different countries and contexts. It is aimed at interested cities, basins, regions and countries wanting to strengthen their water policies.
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Planning Monitoring and Review
WASH Accountability Mapping Tools

WASH Accountability Mapping Tools

Year of publication:
2016
Accountability mapping tools are participatory instruments developed to assess the status and quality of accountability lines within the water and sanitation sector. These spreadsheet-based tools produce graphics of
the water sector, represented as a comprehensive system of accountability relations involving policy makers, service providers and communities.

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Crosscutting Areas
Global Advocacy for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene A Resource Guide

Global Advocacy for Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene: A Resource Guide

Year of publication:
2015
This guide aims to serve as a tool for professionals, implementers, and advocates looking to pursue and promote WASH advocacy efforts. It provides a list of annotated resources that cover WASH and global advocacy, along with relevant organizations in the WASH advocacy field.

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Planning Monitoring and Review
Water Integrity Management (IM) Toolbox

Water Integrity Management (IM) Toolbox

Year of publication:
2014
The IM toolbox is a systematic, bottom-up approach to identify and address the integrity risks in the day-to-day operations and management of a water sector organization. Water sector organizations can use the approach to optimize their business models and reduce the risks that are affecting their performance on the long term.

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Capacity Development
Violence, Gender & WASH: A Practitioner’s Toolkit

Violence, Gender & WASH: A Practitioner's Toolkit

Year of publication:
2014
By recognising both the risks of violence associated with WASH and the potential benefits of WASH, this toolkit aims to shine a light on this problem and encourage practitioners to recognise their capacity to make WASH safer and more effective.

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Institutional Arrangements
Realising the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: A Handbook

Realising the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: A Handbook

Year of publication:
2014
This Handbook gives guidance on the implementation of the human rights to water and sanitation as defined by the international human rights legal framework. The main target audiences include governments at all levels, donors and national regulatory bodies, however, it provides information that will also be useful to civil society, service providers and human rights organisations.

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Sector Policy/Strategy
WASH Bottleneck Analysis Tool

WASH Bottleneck Analysis Tool (WASH BAT)

Year of publication:
2011
WASH BAT has been designed as a sector tool for use by governments and development partners for WASH sector strengthening. It enables a systematic identification of factors (or “bottlenecks”) that prevent achievement of sustainable service delivery within national or subnational WASH targets and helps stakeholders to define activities aimed at removing the root causes of these bottlenecks.

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Sector Policy/Strategy
Cover page of the publication

Understanding the WASH Sector

Year of publication:
2010
Intended for implementation partners and/or civil society organizations, this framework outlines how to carry out an analysis of the capability, accountability and responsiveness (CAR) of the WASH sector at the national level.
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Planning Monitoring and Review
Using Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys to Monitor Projects and Small-Scale Programs : A Guidebook

Using Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys to Monitor Projects and Small-Scale Programs : A Guidebook

Year of publication:
2010
The goal of this guidebook is to serve as a starting point for civil society organizations, as well as Bank teams interested in conducting Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, both on a small and larger scale. It is designed to lead a research team from idea inception to results dissemination, while emphasizing the importance of utilizing evidence to influence policy, regardless of whether it is on a macro or micro-level.

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Planning Monitoring and Review
Citizen Report Card Learning Toolkit

Citizen Report Card Learning Toolkit

Year of publication:
2006
This self-learning online course is provides basic knowledge and skills to implement Citizen Report Cards (CRCs). A CRC is a simple but powerful tool to provide public agencies with systematic feedback from users of public services. The target audience includes officers of local governments, civil society organizations, development agencies, and consortiums.

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Institutional Arrangements
A User’s Guide to Poverty and Social Impact Analysis

A User’s Guide to Poverty and Social Impact Analysis

Year of publication:
2003
This is a user guide for carrying out Poverty and Social impact analysis (PSIA) of policy reforms relevant to all sectors, including WASH. It also elaborates on the broad range of analytical tools and techniques that can be used for PSIA. It is intended for practitioners undertaking PSIA in developing countries.
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