Keynote topic 1: Monitoring the finance needed for sustainable service delivery

Published on: 01/04/2013

The WASH sector has come a long way since 2010; as WASH professionals, we are starting to have a common and shared financial language. So what is preventing us as a sector to have better financial data? And when we get it, what is holding us back from sharing it? At the symposium, the many presenters will aim to go beyond these constraints, provide their visions and share specific methodologies that can monitor finance.

The purpose of this Keynote Paper is to introduce Topic 1 of the Symposium on Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery: “Monitoring the finance needed for sustainable service delivery”. The paper sets the context for the discussions under Topic 1 and summarises some of the key issues, which will be discussed in the four sessions dedicated to the topic:

1. What has been the progress during the past years three years on monitoring finance for WASH?
2. What are some of the latest methodologies to monitor finance for water, sanitation and hygiene?
3. How is finance related to global and national level monitoring

The objectives of Topic 1 are: to present and discuss the latest technical proposals that monitor and track financial flows in the WASH sector at international and national levels, and to provide a platform for discussion on the difficult area of measuring the cost effectiveness of hygiene interventions. Furthermore, it is expected that the incentives for financial monitoring are demonstrated and how information can be used in practice to improve service delivery.