Pursuing Safely Managed WASH in Asia-Pacific

On Wednesday, 30th March, Water for Women and partners came together with representatives from the World Health Organisation (WHO) / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), Bappenas Indonesia and the East Sepik Provincial Health Authority, Papua New Guinea, for a webinar exploring experiences and lessons on monitoring safely managed water and sanitation services in Asia-Pacific.

Water for Women's recently launched case studies and synthesis reports on this topic were drawn upon and an overview of key challenges and lessons learnt shared.

The webinar presentations also covered: 

1. The importance of monitoring and key gaps in national and regional data for SDG 6 on safely managed water and sanitation, introduced by Peter O’Connor, Director of the Water Security section of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Rick Johnston from WHO/JMP.
   
   
2. Adapting indicators and including expanded indicators to capture contextual factors, which were shown to be important for more meaningful assessments of safely managed services through the synthesis findings and Rosie Sanderson’s presentation of the International WaterCentre’s Solomon Islands case study.
   
   
3. Steps to embed monitoring of safely managed services into local or national systems, presented by Winnie Sagiu, East Sepik Provincial Health Authority, PNG, and Ugyen Rinzin from SNV Bhutan, including how the data is used in planning and inclusive service delivery as well as the challenges with capacity and integration.
   
   
4. An example of monitoring safely managed water services at a national scale, presented by Nur Aisyah Nasution from Bappenas Indonesia, providing an overview of the SKAM-RT national household-based drinking water quality survey, it’s findings and how this data is informing government policies and investments.
   
   
5. The importance of monitoring inequalities and challenges to capturing this data for safely managed services, discussed in a panel of Aisya Nasution (Bappenas, Indonesia), Rick Johnston (WHO) and Gabrielle Halcrow (SNV), led by Professor Juliet Willetts (UTS-ISF).
   
   

Thank you to all who presented and participated in the webinar, and to Water for Women partners for your considerable contributions to this collaborative initiative under our Learning Agenda and progressing monitoring of safely managed water and sanitation services in the Asia-Pacific region.

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