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Monitoring civil society advocacy: a guide for the water sector

The PMEL processes within Watershed have strived to be as adaptive, inclusive and reflective as possible. The tools used have seen many changes and adaptations throughout the Watershed life cycle in order to meet the needs of both the users and the programme. Since...
Published on December 22, 2020
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Guidelines for the last Outcome Harvesting Sensemaking workshop, May/June 2020

These guidelines describe the process for the last sensemaking workshop of the Watershed programme, adapted to be a fully online process. The purpose of the sensemaking process is two-fold: Learn how to do analysis and interpretation of harvested outcomes. Obtain...
Published on December 18, 2020
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Watershed Outcome Harvesting Sense-making and ToC review workshop

Facilitators’ script Material: Flipcharts Several prints of the outcome database according to different categorisation filters applied ToC printed on A3 colour, enough copies for all participants Markers, cards, scissors, stickers The script has no time allocation...
Published on December 18, 2020
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Outcome Harvesting – additional guidelines for Watersheds last Harvest, in Corona times

Final harvest guidelines (2020) Harvesting good quality outcomes As we are dealing with the last outcome harvest, it is a bit of a special case. Please pay special attention to outcomes that demonstrate changes in the behaviour of the contracted partners, related to...
Published on December 18, 2020
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Capacity Self Assessment guidelines (2016)

Capacity Self Assessment CSA Tool: guidelines and checklist This document describes the Capacity Self Assessment (CSA) tool which will be used in the Watershed programme. The document starts with a list of principles behind the tool, then the way which the tool...
Published on December 18, 2020
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Watershed Annual Report 2019

As Watershed closed its fourth year of implementation, it has seen an impressive number of results. All the Work Packages saw at least one concrete change in the practices of their governments in the form of laws, policies and/or norms being implemented towards...
Published on June 29, 2020
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She Makes Change: Running for gender equality

The global gender gap is staggering. The World Economic Forum’s 2020 report estimates it will take 99.5 years to achieve universal gender parity at the current rate. Gender equality is innately linked to sustainable development: it benefits entire economies...
Published on February 4, 2020
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Financing the 50/30 commitment: a financial framework for the WASH Strategy of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

This paper aims to inform the discussions on financing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ 50/30 commitment, by proposing a financial framework for the implementation of the WASH strategy for the period 2021-2030. The first part of the document sets out such a...
Published on February 4, 2020
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WASH/IWRM alignment in Dutch foreign policies and practices

In order to ensure sustainable water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in a context of decreasing water security, there is a need to align WASH and integrated water resources management (IWRM). While the Dutch government acknowledges the need for alignment, these...
Published on February 27, 2017
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Pathways to change : empowering citizens

In seven countries, Watershed partners have met to develop “theories of change” (ToCs) for capacity building in lobbying and advocacy. Teams in Kenya, Uganda, Mali, Ghana, Bangladesh and India developed national ToCs, while teams in Amsterdam/The Hague developed...
Published on July 15, 2016