New! Specialist course: Advocating for universal WASH services This latest addition to the WASH systems Academy aims to get started and/or boost your advocacy for sustainable WASH services for all. Build on the lessons learned from successful advocacy initiatives...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This briefing note shares the use of social tools that will allow to empower the communities by giving them access to information about the status of ground reality in terms of WASH services and facilities, policies and practices. By building the capacity of the...

Nanyuki Water and Sewerage Company Limited (NAWASCO), like many other water companies in Kenya has a pro-poor unit that targets the poor facilitating access to service delivery in compliance to Kenya’s constitutional right to water and sanitation for all. NAWASCO...

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...

This case study documents how, by engaging local communities in evidence generation and providing them information about their entitlements from related policies and programmes, can provide an enabling environment for prioritising and successfully articulating their...

This paper demonstrates how, capacity building in India can empower communities to make informed choices and influence village level planning as well as service providers, to pave the way for sustainable WASH and WRM. (more…)