Media and communications support: SWA is a platform for reaching audiences inside and outside the sector, as well as the media. Partners can use the platform to share their national progress and stories. SWA also develops materials around different topics that partners can adapt and use in their own channels (videos, infographics, etc) to communicate their FMM follow-up. Please explore SWA’s website for different toolkits.

In-country multi-stakeholder setup and support: SWA includes partners from a multitude of areas such as UN agencies, development banks, bilateral and multilateral institutions, and leaders from civil society, private sector, and research and learning agencies. The SWA serves as an enabler for multi-stakeholder collaborative work at country level.

High-level political engagement involving SWA leaders: SWA has a Global Leadership Council comprised of highly-respected leaders, including former heads of government and state. Partner countries can request SWA for the engagement of these leaders. For example, the SWA High-level Chair, who is a former head of state, can write to ministers or other heads of government to encourage them to undertake an action related to financing water, sanitation and hygiene. SWA’s CEO can hold virtual meetings with ministers or make a country visit in support of an initiative identified during the FMM.

Peer-to-peer exchanges involving political leaders: SWA is dedicated to building the political will of decision-makers, as well as providing them with evidence and the opportunity for exchange that will support sector reforms. The Secretariat will link political leaders who want to implement a specific initiative with others with the experience to do so. SWA’s unique mandate is to create these linkages among political leaders across geographical, language, and economic barriers.

Systems and finance platform/working group: in 2020 SWA mobilized partners to support the delivery of the partnership’s strategic objective on systems strengthening and finance. The Work Group is supported by a Senior Finance Adviser who, together with the working group, will provide support to partners. To date, the group has held discussions with about 6 countries to better understand the bottlenecks they face in mobilizing and using WASH Finance.