Water
Water is fundamental to life, and a key component in achieving the sustainable development goals. Our Water team has extensive practical and academic expertise in delivering effective monitoring, evaluation and learning services to help our clients and partners achieve the impacts and results they seek in their work.
Water is at the heart of the environment and development. Access to water and sanitation is a human right and, together with good hygiene practice, integral to health and well-being. Water is also a critical economic, social and natural resource, and needs to be managed in a sustainable way to maintain our ecosystems.
We generate evidence around what does and doesn’t work for achieving sustainability across the water sector. We carry out evaluations to help our partners refine their strategies, and work with partners to improve their monitoring, data systems and feedback loops for reaching outcomes.
Project
Global Evaluation of UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programming in Protracted Crises, 2014-2019
The average humanitarian crisis, which requires a UN-coordinated response, lasts more than nine years. Vulnerability in such...
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Independent Monitoring and Verification of the WASH Results Programme
Millions of people worldwide still lack access to improved water supply and sanitation. The DFID Water, Sanitation & Hygiene...
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Independent monitoring and verification of the Accelerating Sanitation, Water and Hygiene for All (ASWA II) Programme
Accelerating access to drinking water and household sanitation is key to achieving the sustainable development goals and DFID...
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School Health and Nutrition Portfolio Evaluation for Dubai Cares
Millions of school-age children are affected by serious, yet easily treatable and preventable, illnesses, which inhibit their...
Publications
Report
Outcome achievements in the WASH Results Programme: data and insights
WASH Results Programme learning brief #1
Report
Setting and monitoring outcome targets in WASH programmes
WASH Results Programme learning brief #2
Report
Reaching the vulnerable and working in fragile contexts
WASH Results Programme learning brief # 3
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Experiences in WASH systems strengthening
WASH Results Programme learning brief #4
Blogs and news
Impact story
Shaping organisational change for more effective philanthropy
An Itad evaluation conducted in partnership with global philanthropic organisation Porticus, led to organisational changes for...
Blog
Three ways digital data is helping UNICEF make decisions for WASH programming
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on urban water and sewerage utilities is critical to managing potential emergent and...
Blog
Maximising the value of third party monitoring
COVID-19 has brought greater challenges and complexity to delivering aid, particularly in insecure settings. An external...
Blog
How regular outcome monitoring makes WASH programmes more effective
Measuring progress towards WASH outcomes is more difficult and more expensive than reporting outputs, but it is a valuable...
