OGP members tackle disparity and safety issues in water and sanitation through commitments ranging from improving access to fighting corruption.
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Challenges involved with safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) are increasingly complex and widespread. According to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme , around the world, 30 percent of people do not have access to clean water and a troubling six in ten lack safely managed sanitation.
Climate change is adding further stress to water safety and security and is already affecting water access for people around the world, due to more severe droughts and floods. These more frequent extreme weather events threaten the sustainability of services through damage to WASH infrastructure and degraded physical access to WASH facilities.
Smart investments in WASH are a foundation for resilience and public health, and WASH services can be greatly improved with better transparency, participation, inclusion, and accountability.
WASH, along with other public services such as health and education, are some of the least explored areas in OGP. Current and previous commitments, encouragingly, focus on creating inclusive dialogue and feedback loops. 68% of these commitments have been deemed ambitious – meaning they have the potential to lead to significant change on the ground if fully implemented – by the Independent Reporting Mechanism, which is much higher than the global average.
An important contributor to the development of OGP commitments on WASH is the Community of Practice on Water and Open Government. This group of organizations is working hard to promote fairer, more reliable and more efficient water and sanitation delivery by connecting the WASH and OGP networks and developing valuable recommendations for OGP action plans.OGP members can use their action plans to address many of the root causes of WASH issues, including corruption and poor quality, as well as lack of prioritization, access, equity, and accountability.
Rural citizens of La Libertad in Peru will be able to find drinking water as well as submit reports on the location and quality of drinking water in their region, following the launch of an interactive map platform.
OGP Local is now more flexible, sustainable, inclusive and innovative than ever before. Since welcoming 56 new local members in...
Hoy, OGP Local es más flexible, sostenible, incluyente e innovador que nunca. Desde la incorporación de 56 miembros nuevos en 2020, hemos recibido 30 nuevos planes de acción que incluyen más de 100 compromisos. Debido a la pandemia del COVID-19,…
Clean and readily available water for all is a human right. Learn how open government approaches can improve accessibility, transparency and government accountability over this precious natural resource.
El agua limpia y accesible para todos es un derecho humano. Es por ello que es tan importante mejorar la accesibilidad, transparencia y rendición de gobiernas de los gobiernos sobre este preciado recurso natural.
The data below is drawn from the 2019 OGP Global Report. You can view and learn more about the report here.
These are members making OGP commitments to improve their performance in the respective policy area. As members that have demonstrated political commitment through OGP, the next step is ensuring that implemented commitments have maximal impact.
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SIWI shares four steps for co-creating open government commitments to accelerate the process of improving urban water, sanitation and hygiene…
2021, Outbound Link, Web Page
Find resources and a recording of the webinar, which explore how open government reforms can accelerate clean water priorities.
2020, , Web Page
Snapshot of global progress and member-level examples of water reform in OGP
2020, Document, PDF
When political leaders failed to act on São Paulo's grave water crisis from 2014-2016, civil society organizations, including the Alliance…
2019, Outbound Link, Web Page
Tackling today’s water challenges will require more than improving infrastructure and stepping up investments.
2019, Resource, Web Page
Improving open government yields significant dividends to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
2019, Document, PDF
2018, Outbound Link, Web Page
SIWI, UNDP and UNICEF share a set of methods developed for assisting groups in understanding accountability relations in their WASH…
2016, Outbound Link, Web Page
UNDP's guide aims to assit practitioners to design and conduct water governance assessments more effectively within their own local or…
2015, Outbound Link, Web Page
The 2022 OGP Africa and the Middle East Regional Meeting is taking place on November 1-3 in Marrakech, Morocco.
The Citizen Participatory Audit goes beyond simple auditing by working closely with civil society on a range of policy decisions to improve people’s lives. It uses a constructive engagement approach between citizens and government to validate the government’s use of…
Rural citizens of La Libertad in Peru will be able to find drinking water as well as submit reports on the location and quality of drinking water in their region, following the launch of an interactive map platform.
Clean and readily available water for all is a human right. Learn how open government approaches can improve accessibility, transparency and government accountability over this precious natural resource.
El agua limpia y accesible para todos es un derecho humano. Es por ello que es tan importante mejorar la accesibilidad, transparencia y rendición de gobiernas de los gobiernos sobre este preciado recurso natural.
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