WASH affordability and financial sustainability – How to make WASH services more affordable through improved monitoring? (English and French)

SWA together with UNICEF and WHO co-convened a webinar focusing on WASH affordability and financial sustainability – How to make WASH services more affordable through improved monitoring?.  On 3rd May 2021, a report was launched with global recommendations for how to better measure and monitor WASH affordability, published by UNICEF and WHO under the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) and the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS). The report draws on several countries' case studies and an in-depth review of concepts around affordability, including the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. The report concludes that while there are both definitional and data challenges to the monitoring of affordability, it is critical to start taking steps to better understand, analyze and address affordability in the WASH sector and beyond.

This webinar was built on this report, by inviting countries and other constituencies to respond to the proposals for improved global and national monitoring of affordability and how countries and service providers can better respond to affordability concerns to leave no one behind. It also stimulates reflection on how to integrate affordability monitoring across multiple human needs. 

Speakers: Catarina de Albuquerque, SWA; Pedro Arrojo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking- Water and Sanitation; Guy Hutton, UNICEF; Tom Slaymaker, UNICE; Bruce Gordon, WHO; Marina Takane, WHO; Rick Johnston, WHO; Perry Rivera, Manila Water Company, Philippines; Chreay Pom, Ministry of Rural Development, Cambodia; Rob Hope, Professor, Oxford University– REACH Consortium.

This webinar was held twice on 8 June to cover all audiences across different time zones. Session 2 is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Webinar Session 2