data | GLOBALWATERS.ORG

Webinar

Webinar Discusses the Use of Monitoring Data in WASH Sector Decision-Making

Thanks to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as other smaller-scale initiatives throughout the world focused on improving access to water and sanitation, vast amounts of new data are being generated within the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector to measure progress against these goals. But are these data being used to inform decisions? And if not, how do we support the use of monitoring data in the decision-making process?

Webinar

Upcoming Webinar: Mainstreaming the Use of Data for Decision-Making in Africa’s WASH sector

This event has ended, but you can check out the recording and write-up of the webinar. Or you can download presentations from the webinar (via Google Drive).

Blog

Realizing the Scoop on Poop in Ethiopia’s Lowland Regions

USAID/Ethiopia's Lowland WASH project is using USAID’s Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) framework to help reevaluate and improve the effectiveness of its open defecation interventions.

Evaluation

Evaluation Brief: SERVIR Products and Tools: Water Quality Monitoring for Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

This briefing presents highlights from a case study conducted as part of the SERVIR performance evaluation, examining the water quality monitoring product in Guatemala. The brief was prepared by Management Systems International and Development and Training Services for the E3 Analytics and Evaluation Project.

Blog

AMCOW looks to accelerate progress towards the SDG 2030 Agenda: Key Takeaways from the 7th Africa Water Week

Three years after the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 Agenda was adopted, the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) convened the 7^th Africa Water Week (AWW) in Libreville, Gabon. USAID, a lead supporter of AMCOW’s path to self-reliance, was on hand as AMCOW assembled the largest gathering of the continent’s political leadership and decision-makers in the WASH sector.

Brief

Real-Time Monitoring for Improved Water Services in the Ethiopian Lowlands

This note provides a briefing on the use of cellular and satellite connected sensors for near-time monitoring of rural water services in the arid, drought-prone and mainly pastoralist lowlands of eastern Ethiopia (including Afar, Somali and parts of Oromia and SNNPR). It is intended to help policy- and decision-makers at national and regional levels to make appropriate use of this new technology to strengthen water services.

The findings are based on work by the USAID Lowland WASH Activity and USAID Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership.

Video

Clean Kumasi: Digital Tools to Transform Urban Waste Management

In the fall of 2012, IDEO.org partnered with Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor to tackle the issue of open defecation. IDEO.org and WSUP were the recipients of a Development Innovation Ventures Stage One grant to test a hypothesis that the application of digital tools could effectively change behavior related to the management of human waste.