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Covershot of UKWIR's PDF on alleviating water poverty.

Defining Water Poverty and Evaluating Existing Information and Approaches to Reduce Water Poverty

Year of publication:

2020

This study provides practical insights and recommendations to water companies as well as for consumer bodies, regulators, policymakers, and the water industry more widely, aiming to enable the industry to take positive steps to address the challenge of water poverty. Chapter 6 in particular, "Approach Toolkit for Alleviating Poverty" while focusing on the UK water sector, could be useful in any part of the world.

WASH SDG Costing Tool

Year of publication:

2020

The WASH SDG Costing Tool can be used by countries that would like to calculate the investments needed to fulfill the SDG targets as well as the financing gap. The Tool comprises a spreadsheet, accompanied by easy-to-use guidelines available for download in PDF.

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.

Covershot of the UNICEF Public Expenditures Tools Guidance PDF

Choosing Public Expenditure Analytical Tools for Use in the WASH Sector

Year of publication:

2017

This Guideline provides an introduction to the most relevant expenditure analysis tools for the WASH sector – Public Expenditure Reviews, Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys, TrackFin WASH Accounts and Budget briefs.

IRC WASH Costing and Budgeting Tools

Year of publication:

2017

The tools have been developed by IRC, Water for People and Aguaconsult. They build on Water for People’s “Everyone Forever” programme and IRC’s work on life-cycle costing and financing of sustainable water and sanitation services.
This set of 4 WASH costing and budgeting tools aims to help analyse costs and create a financial overview at the district level.

The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: An annotated selection of international and regional law and mechanisms

Year of publication:

2017

The handbook compiles and annotates extracts from international law and mechanisms, thereby demonstrating how the various frameworks contribute to the realisation of those rights. It targets civil society, parliamentarians, government officials and other actors to help a better understanding of the broader context of the rights to water and sanitation with the aim of strengthening their work in these areas at national level.

Leave No One Behind

Year of publication:

2016

In order to ensure “Leaving no one behind”, the WASH Alliance International (WAI) has developed two tools to help improve inclusiveness in its programme and partner organisations:
1) Leaving No One Behind Through adopting an Inclusion Lens (guidance document)
2) Organisation Inclusion Assessment Tool (spreadsheet)

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.

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.

Inclusive WASH: Equity and Inclusion Toolkit

Year of publication:

2013

This Toolkit compiles several tools into a 2-part manual that can be used to help make Aid Organizations’ WASH programmes more inclusive. The tools are a combination of newly developed, existing and revised methods; largely based on experiences in the countries where WaterAid works.

Briefing Note on budget tracking approaches in the WASH sector: methods, applicability and examples

Year of publication:

2012

In this note, budget tracking approaches and methods, and its applicability within the WASH sector are discussed, to offer insight into how and whether it can be applied within the Dutch Water Alliance's (DWA) programme. These may be relevant to other WASH Alliances or stakeholders.

TrackFin: Tracking financing to sanitation, hygiene and drinking-water

Year of publication:

2012

TrackFin (Tracking Financing to WASH) is a methodology to identify and track financing to the WASH sector at the national or sub-national level in a consistent and comparable manner. The tool produces WASH accounts which can be used by governments for national benchmarking, cross-country comparisons and to provide an evidence base to better plan, finance, manage and monitor WASH services and systems.

Governance and Transparency Fund Capacity Needs Assessment Tool

Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) Capacity Needs Assessment Tool

Year of publication:

2012

This systematic Capacity Needs Analysis (CNA) tool can be used by civil society organizations and government partners to identify and support capacity needs to participate more effectively in evidence-based dialogue with decision-makers in the water and sanitation sector.

Covershot of World Bank PER Guidance Note PDF

GUIDANCE NOTE - Public Expenditure Review from the Perspective of the Water and Sanitation Sector

Year of publication:

2012

The objective of this Guidance Note is to provide World Bank staff with a body of knowledge and good practice guidelines to help them evaluate the allocation of public resources to water and sanitation services in a consistent manner and to increase their knowledge of public expenditure issues in the sector.

Financing for Water and Sanitation: a Primer for Practitioners and Students in Developing Countries

Year of publication:

2011

This Primer offers a non-technical introduction to financing for water and sanitation in developing countries.

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.

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.

All Tools

Defining Water Poverty and Evaluating Existing Information and Approaches to Reduce Water Poverty

WASH SDG Costing Tool

Making Rights Real (MRR)

Choosing Public Expenditure Analytical Tools for Use in the WASH Sector

IRC WASH Costing and Budgeting Tools

The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: An annotated selection of international and regional law and mechanisms

Leave No One Behind

Violence, Gender & WASH: A Practitioner's Toolkit

Realising the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation: A Handbook

Inclusive WASH: Equity and Inclusion Toolkit

Briefing Note on budget tracking approaches in the WASH sector: methods, applicability and examples

TrackFin: Tracking financing to sanitation, hygiene and drinking-water

Governance and Transparency Fund (GTF) Capacity Needs Assessment Tool

GUIDANCE NOTE - Public Expenditure Review from the Perspective of the Water and Sanitation Sector

Financing for Water and Sanitation: a Primer for Practitioners and Students in Developing Countries

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

A User’s Guide to Poverty and Social Impact Analysis

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