Mutual Accountability Mechanism

Accountability is central to the SWA partnership. It is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions and account for them to others. It is a requirement for progress and a human rights principle.

Accountability is about how promises are translated into action and aspirations into reality. While States ultimately have an obligation to ensure the realization of the human rights to water and sanitation, all stakeholders have a role to play in moving our societies toward the vision laid out in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.

In response to this need, the Sanitation and Water for All partnership has created the Mutual Accountability Mechanism: a tool for partners to commit and hold each other to account for progress in achieving the SDGs’ water and sanitation targets – as well as an opportunity to collaborate, learn and catalyze collective action.

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What is the Mutual Accountability Mechanism?

SWA’s Mutual Accountability Mechanism (MAM) is the only global accountability process in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector that is dedicated to all stakeholders working together towards achieving universal access to water and sanitation services. The mechanism helps to set priorities and a shared vision for the sector, as well as to identify roles and responsibilities for achieving them. 

The MAM provides a process for all partners to make commitments and hold each other to account on the specific, measurable, time-bound actions they plan to take to achieve their targets set on the road to reaching the Sustainable Development Goal 6.

Commitments tabled under the MAM are based on national policies and enable monitoring. In just four years since the mechanism’s launch, over 400 commitments have been tabled, with half of them coming from 60 national governments.

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Country	Constituency	Body / Organizations	Commitment	Target year	Progress
Bangladesh	Civil Society	Network of Networks	The CSOs, along with Network of Networks, will conduct pre- and post-budget advocacy with the government to support the creation of an enabling environment for the private sector and local entrepreneurs to provide WASH services. Micro finance institutions will increase 10% WASH loan.	2021	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Civil Society	Network of Networks	The CSOs will pursue with the government to increase at least 10% CSO members in the WASH related committees by 2021 and ensure participation of CSOs in the national level SDG tracking and implementation progress of SDGs.	2021	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Civil Society	Network of Networks	The CSOs, along with Network of Networks, will lobby to increase government’s yearly WASH budget by USD 250 million for the WASH sector, reducing the budget gap by 50% in each fiscal year, as well as to secure more investments in hard to reach areas and people, including slums/ low income communities (LIC), arsenic prone areas, tea garden, costal and hilly areas.	2025	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Civil Society	Network of Networks	The CSOs along with Network of Networks will organize workshops and meetings with the Local Government Division at National Level to increase meaningful participation of the women and excluded groups in the Local Government Institutions(LGIs) meetings by 2022, so that their voices and demands are reflected in the WASH budget of LGIs.	2022	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Government	Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives	Increase government's yearly budget by USD 250 million for the WASH sector, reducing the budget gap by 50% in each fiscal year.	2022	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Government	Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives	Advocate for Ministry of Finance to approve separate budget lines for water, sanitation and hygiene by 2021, to support tracking sector financing to reach SDG 6 targets.	2021	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Government	Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives	Ensure that at least 2 million more people in arsenic contaminated areas gain access to safe, arsenic-free water.	2022	Reviewing progress
Bangladesh	Government	Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives	Increase at least 5% of the national WASH budget allocated to promote hygiene for all, including handwashing and menstrual hygiene management.	2022	Reviewing progress

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Why should my government or organization participate?

The Mutual Accountability Mechanism provides a concrete entry point for dialogue, transparency, and coordination. It is an opportunity for stakeholders to sit around the table to plan, mutually commit to act in a coordinated way, and improve the Sustainable Development Goal 6 outcomes through collaborative efforts. The MAM provides a framework for tracking progress and increasing the visibility of water, sanitation and hygiene initiatives, nationally and globally.