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
Madagascar	Government	Ministère de l’Energie, de l’Eau et des Hydrocarbures (MEEH)	Finalize the framework documents governing objectives, commitments and logical frameworks that will serve as a road map to achieving the SDGs by the end of 2019. Including at least: the WASH Sector Policy and Plan, the WASH part of the Madagascar Emergence Plan, the national investment plan and the strategy for the sustainability of WASH interventions and the Water Code.	2019	Reviewing progress
Madagascar	Government	Ministère de l’Energie, de l’Eau et des Hydrocarbures (MEEH)	Allocate approximately $180 million to the WASH sector over the next three years (2019–2021), of which about $40 million will be earmarked for sanitation and hygiene. The Ministry responsible for WASH will continue to advocate for a 25 per cent increase in this commitment as early as 2019.	2021	Reviewing progress
Madagascar	Government	Ministère de l’Energie, de l’Eau et des Hydrocarbures (MEEH)	Increase access to drinking water by 70 per cent by the end of 2023. Become 90 per cent open defecation-free by the end of 2023.	2023	Reviewing progress
Malawi	External Support Agencies	UNICEF Malawi	Support Joint Sector Review and other platforms that facilitate mutual accountability	2023	Reviewing progress
Malawi	Civil Society	WES NETWORK	Catalyze and support all efforts aiming at putting research into use, including the Last Mile Study by December 2020.	2020	75%
Malawi	Civil Society	WES NETWORK	Mobilize members to develop and implement action plan towards addressing the needs of the ODF last milers (5% of people left behind as characterized by the ODF last mile study which clearly identified groups of people who are left behind after ODF) and support all efforts aiming at putting research into use by December 2020.	2020	75%
Malawi	Civil Society	WES NETWORK	Identify sanitation technologies and financing approaches through its membership that will facilitate increased access to basic sanitation, in poorest and hardest to reach areas and marginalized groups of people.	2024	50%
Malawi	Civil Society	WES NETWORK	Identify approaches that will improve sanitation in poorest and hardest to reach areas and marginalized groups of people by December 2020	2020	50%

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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.