1. The Global Goals and what they mean for WASH
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2. In this presentation What are the Global Goals?
What do they mean for WASH?
What opportunities do they create?
Where can I find out more?
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This talk aims to provide an overview of:
What the Global Goals are;
Why they matter for WASH;
What is the latest state of play in implementation, monitoring and accountability processes;
The role of WASH civil society within Agenda 2030; and
Resources to aid participation.
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3. What are the Global Goals?
The Global Goals are the successor to the Millennium Development Goals.
They are the core of the “Agenda for Sustainable Development by 2030”.
The aim is for all countries to eradicate extreme poverty and ensure development is sustainable by 2030.
They are a stepping stone to understanding our world differently.
At the UN in September 2016 world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development which includes 17 Global Goals (also known as the Sustainable Development Goals).
The Global Goals cover a range of issues from water and sanitation, poverty, gender equality and health to climate change.
The Global Goals aim to end extreme poverty and tackle inequality for all by 2030.
The Global Goals are the successor to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which set out a global plan to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
Since the adoption of the MDGs much progress has been made to improve access to WASH but there is obviously still a great deal of work to be done to bring clean water to 648 million and sanitation to 2.3 billion people who still don’t have access.
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4. MDGs vs The Global Goals: what’s new?
Universal.
Ambitious.
Profile of WASH.
More rigorous monitoring and follow up.
Acknowledging the Integrated nature of sustainable development.
The Global Goals are the successor to the Millennium Development Goals and they differ in a range of notable ways:
Universal: The Global Goals will require countries to take action both within their own borders and in support of wider international efforts - this is not just about tackling poverty in low income countries.
Ambitious: No one left behind and focus on equity and non-discrimination - by 2030 we are aiming to see a world where every child receives an education, where no one goes hungry, where no woman or girl has to walk miles for water that may not even be safe to drink (and move from basic to improved services).
Profile of WASH: access to sanitation was one of the most off track elements of the MDGs - now water and sanitation have the necessary profile with a standalone Goal and hygiene is now part of the global consensus.
More effectively measuring and following up on progress: a global set of indicators and Follow up and Review mechanisms have been agreed to more rigorously measure progress than under the MDGs.
Integrated nature of sustainable development: interlinkages between traditionally siloed areas are starting to be addressed (e.g. the importance of WASH in schools recognised under target 4.a focussed on education facilities).
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5. A short film …. The Global Goals
This short film (under 3 minutes) gives an overview of the Global Goals:
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6. Global Goal 6 dedicated to water and sanitation and hygiene
The Global Goals
Global Goal 6 dedicated to water and sanitation and hygiene
Target 6.1 covers universal drinking water.
Target 6.2 covers universal sanitation and hygiene.
Targets cover other parts of the water cycle.
WaterAid, alongside many other organisations and civil society groups have been calling for a globally agreed goal dedicated to WASH since 2012 and now we have it.
Goal 6 is a major milestone in ending WASH poverty: made up of six targets including universal access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene, with a clear reference to the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.
This provides an opportunity to ensure that water, sanitation and hygiene are prioritised within the sustainable development agenda at all levels as a central part of international, regional and national development plans.
[If you wish to add more detail, Goal 6 target and indicators language can be found downloaded here:
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7. Some of the other Goals and targets are supported by access to WASH
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Some of the other Goals and targets are supported by access to WASH
Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages.
Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
WASH is also mentioned within, and clearly links to, many other Global Goals – providing many opportunities to show the importance of WASH to achieve the whole Agenda -
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere: the definition of poverty used for the GGs, and articulated in target 1.4, is that everyone has access to basic services, of which water and sanitation are two of the most fundamental.
Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture: Reducing malnutrition, in the form of ‘stunting’ (Target 2.1). 50% of malnutrition is attributable not just to lack of food consumption, but to repeated episodes of diarrhoea preventing the absorption of nutrition. WASH is absolutely essential to end malnutrition completely.
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages: Targets, 3.1, 3.2, 3.8: Universal access to safe water and sanitation will help in reaching targets for improving global health, including reducing infant mortality, and reducing water related diseases that are directly affected by improving access to WASH.
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, target 4.1, a: WASH is a critical factor in improving attendance and performance in schools. If students have to collect water at home, or if the prospect of managing their period without a private toilet it can make the idea of attending unthinkable. Beyond this, malnourished and weak children suffering repeated bouts of diarrhoea will inevitably struggle to learn, no matter how good the teaching and materials provided.
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls: Target 5.4: Access to water, sanitation and hygiene has a direct impact on the health of women and girls throughout their lives. For example, the absence of adequate sanitation and menstrual hygiene facilities at school and the burden of water collection, which is far more often undertaken by girls than boys.
Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, target 11.1: Lack of basic water or sanitation services is enough to classify a dwelling as a slum, so improvements in these areas are a necessary condition to achieving this goal.
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8. Monitoring progress: current global context
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Monitoring progress: current global context
Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goals (IAEG-SDGs).
A proposal for a global indicator framework was agreed by the Statistical Commission in March 2016 but more work is ongoing.
The focus has now shifted to national level implementation and how to measure progress.
The Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG indicators has taken forward the process of agreeing global indicators to measure progress towards achieving Agenda 2030.
This group is composed of experts from 28 Member States, elected by and representing different regions of the world and there have been several wider consultations with stakeholders outside this group.
The indicators were agreed as a starting point in March 2016 but will be subject to continual review and consultation in many cases.
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9. Monitoring progress: on WASH
The Global Goals
Monitoring progress: on WASH
Targets
Indicators
6.1 By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
6.2 By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.2.1 Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services, including a hand-washing facility with soap and water
Developments that are welcome:
Indicators under 6.1 and 6.2 are largely what WaterAid and others within the WASH sector were calling for.
Inclusion of hygiene under is a significant ‘win’.
Measurement of WASH facilities in schools (4.a.1).
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10. Monitoring progress: areas of concern
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Monitoring progress: areas of concern
Lack of transparency, participation and momentum around the IAEG-SDG indicators process.
Lack of monitoring of WASH in healthcare facilities.
Data disaggregation.
Target 6.b. (Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management) and how it will be monitored.
Outstanding areas of concern include:
The lack of transparency, participation and momentum around the IAEG-SDG indicators process continues to be troubling and the indicators have yet to be adopted by the General Assembly.
Lack of monitoring of WASH in healthcare facilities: now needs to be pursued via other mechanisms e.g. as part of the implementation of the WHO/UNICEF WASH in healthcare facilities Global Action Plan.
Data disaggregation: This issue has also been repeatedly noted by national governments at the HLPF and elsewhere as a key challenge. Guidance from the IAEG on how the data outlined in the indicators will be disaggregated (and how governments will be supported to deliver on this) is very much ‘wait and see’. A sub-committee was established to take this work forward but more information about its ways of working, membership etc is still forthcoming. One aspect of WaterAid’s work in the area has been to call for water and sanitation indicators to be disaggregated by service level and location, so we can measure improvements in service access, and access for people outside the home (especially in health-care facilities and schools where highly vulnerable people often spend a lot of time).
6b: the formulation of 6b (Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management) and how it will be monitored (6.b.1 Proportion of local administrative units with established and operational policies and procedures for participation of local communities in water and sanitation management) are problematic (e.g. what is the definition of ‘local communities’? Operational policies and procedures do not indicate what’s happening in practise etc) - there is a possibility to influence this via GLAAS as the body responsible for monitoring this indicator.
[More information about this process can be found at and WaterAid’s latest position paper on the SDG indicators can be downloaded here:
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11. Monitoring progress: what next?
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Monitoring progress: what next?
Indicators now need to be adapted for the national level.
Global level: indicators will continue to be discussed by the IAEG-SDGs, UN Stats Commission, the High Level Political Forum, GLAAS and JMP.
Thematic monitoring opportunities such as the Sanitation and Water for All, High Level Meeting, AfricaSan, SacoSan and Africa Water Week.
Regional platforms will play a role in coordination, fostering knowledge sharing, peer review and reciprocal learning.
Indicators now need to be adapted/adopted for national level (in which civil society can play a key role in and will be touched on later [referring to slide 15]).
Global level: indicators will continue to be discussed by IAEG (November ‘16) and UN Stats Commission (March ‘17). Other target fora includes the High Level Political Forum, GLAAS and JMP.
Thematic monitoring will offer good opportunities for strengthening and enhancing existing sector meetings and forums such as the Sanitation and Water for All, High Level Meeting, AfricaSan, SacoSan and African Water Week.
Regional level: Regional platforms will play a role in coordination, fostering knowledge sharing, peer review and reciprocal learning across regions. There may also be a smaller number of indicators targeting specific regional priorities.
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12. Follow up and Review: current global context
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Follow up and Review: current global context
The High Level Political Forum is the central UN platform for Agenda 2030 Follow up and Review.
Summit in July 2016 in New York was the first ‘global moment’ for monitoring progress on Agenda 2030 since its adoption.
One of they key inputs was the Voluntary National Reviews.
The High Level Political Forum (the HLPF) is the central UN platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The High Level Political Forum meets i) every four years at the level of Heads of State and Government under the auspices of the General Assembly (the first of these will be 2019); ii) every year under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council (this means that all seventeen SDGs should be reviewed in the HLPF under the auspices of ECOSOC within a period of four years).
The summit in July 2016 (HLPF 2016) was the first ‘global moment’ for monitoring progress on the 2030 Agenda since its adoption.
A Ministerial Declaration was adopted last day of the HLPF which is a very topline, far from ambitious document that failed to move beyond the usual rhetoric.
A range of common challenges to national implementation were raised (and will be touched on later [referring to slide 14]).
One of the key inputs (generating much of the official programme discussion) was the Voluntary National Reviews which 22 governments submitted to. This included a diverse range of countries at all levels of development.
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13. Follow up and Review: what next?
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Follow up and Review: what next?
2017 HLPF theme is ‘Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity'.
Goal 6 will be the subject of ‘in depth’ review in 2018.
Voluntary National Reviews can be an opportunity to:
-Engage with governments on SDG process and raise profile of WASH within implementation plans;
-Utilise the report as an accountability mechanism;
-Share data;
-Share learnings and replicate success; and
-Utilise peer pressure at global level.
2017 HLPF theme is ‘Eradicating poverty and promoting prosperity’ and the following goals (including Goal 17 which is a focus every year) will be the subject of ‘in depth’ review: Goals 1, 2, 3, 5, 9 and 14.
There are opportunities to make the links between WASH and those goals/issues in particular as part of the voluntary national process (e.g. consultations, feeding into the report, and potentially as part of the national delegations at the summit itself).
It is not clear how this will differ from the content of the 2016 and in practise it will be up to each national government to take forward as they see fit.
Goal 6 will be the subject of ‘in depth’ review in A potential opportunity is for WASH civil society to encourage their governments to volunteer for review in anticipation of that.
While more useful in some contexts over others, the VNRs should present an opportunity to:
Engage with governments on SDG process, raise profile of WASH within implementation plans and utilise the report as an accountability mechanism;
Potentially join delegations presenting at UN;
Share data;
Flag major challenges when feeding back at global level;
Share learnings and replicate success; and
Utilise peer pressure at global level.
[More information about this process can be found here and WaterAid’s latest briefing paper on Agenda 2030 Follow up and Review can be downloaded here
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14. National implementation
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National implementation
Experiences vary but there are some common ‘themes’ emerging as challenges to implementation:
Lack of political will and government buy in.
Lack of transparency, and participation of civil society, in monitoring.
Follow up and Review and implementation of Agenda 2030.
The challenge of ‘Leave No One Behind’.
‘Cherry-picking’ and a lack of an integrated approach.
Universality of the Agenda.
Resources, including financial.
Monitoring and data collection.
Need for more robust Follow up and Review mechanisms at all levels.
National and regional implementation plans are being developed now and at very different stages - some examples from 2016 HLPF reviews show:
Sierra Leone: the government, through the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, has published and distributed a simplified version of the SDGs, the 2030 Agenda, which regroups the 17 SDGs into eight thematic areas. (SDG 6 is under human development). The SDGs were integrated into the 2016 National Budget, and have been aligned to the Eight Pillars of Sierra Leone’s third generation poverty reduction strategy paper.
Germany: the government has run several consultations over many months and at different levels, and shared presentation time at summit with representative from civil society.
Finland: in an otherwise fairly strong report, Finland made no reference to how the Goals would inform ODA and development priorities - so universality/policy coherence posed a challenge.
Although experiences vary, there are some common ‘themes’ emerging as obstacles/challenges to implementation:
Lack of political will and government buy in e.g. ministerial representation at 2016 HLPF very mixed. Also focussing on strategy and planning for implementation rather than progress so far (process vs progress).
Lack of transparency, and participation of civil society, in monitoring, Follow up and Review and implementation of Agenda 2030.
The challenge of ‘Leave No One Behind’: reaching the most vulnerable and marginalised as an urgent priority and ensuring their participation in developing implementation plans.
‘Cherry-picking’, lack of integrated approach and the need to move away from policy silos - but also challenge of ensuring profile of WASH is raised.
Universality of the Agenda (especially buy-in and resource of high income countries).
Resources, including financial, to meet the ambition of Agenda 2030: some specific initiatives have emerged but not systematic or ambitious enough.
Monitoring and data collection (government capacity and need to involve civil society).
Need for more robust Follow up and Review mechanisms at all levels.
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15. The role of WASH civil society
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The role of WASH civil society
Engage with key actors.
Communicators and sharing information.
1) Engage with key actors: for example reaching out to UNDP country leads, advocacy targeted at implementing ministries or participation in consultations - civil society has a key role as a watchdog, but will also be an important partner in implementation and providing solutions.
2) Communicators and sharing information.
Promoting the SDGs in the media, with general public, local authorities, other sectors, grassroots groups, marginalised communities will be key to their success.
Sharing positive and negative experiences and intelligence for learning and benefit of other actors.
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16. The role of WASH civil society: continued
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The role of WASH civil society: continued
3. Implementers and watchdogs:
a) Key role to play in i) monitoring progress and helping to adapt indicators to the national level and ii) data collection.
b) Role as service providers and providing solutions to challenges.
c) Holding decision-makers to account for the promises outlined in Agenda 2030 e.g. reviewing government development plans, contributing to consultations, encouraging cross-ministry coordination on development interventions.
3) Implementers and watch dogs:
a) Key role to play in i) monitoring progress and helping to adapt indicators to the national level and ii) data collection - directly and facilitating the involvement of grassroots groups and marginalised communities.
b) Role as service providers and providing solutions to challenges.
E.g. working with partners in different sectors and demonstrating an integrated approach such as increasing WASH facilities and hygiene education and behaviour change programmes in healthcare facilities (e.g. WaterAid Mozambique has an active partnership with the Association of Nurses and Midwives and are exploring potential campaigns in health centres).
E.g. honouring the spirit of ‘no one left behind’ with workshops focussed on marginalised and vulnerable communities to help them realise their human rights of access to water and sanitation.
c) Holding decision-makers to account for the promises outlined in Agenda 2030.
E.g. reviewing government development plans, contributing to consultations, encouraging cross-ministry coordination on development interventions.
E.g. playing an active role in Agenda 2030 Follow up and Review such as contributing to the HLPF Voluntary National Review process.
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17. Step 1: mapping processes and key stakeholders
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Step 1: mapping processes and key stakeholders
Governments must ensure transparency and participation in implementation processes.
Civil society needs to be informed and play an active role.
The Agenda 2030 national context assessment tool aims to help WASH civil society with this:
The success of Agenda 2030 lies in its timely national-level implementation.
For this to happen, governments will have to ensure transparency and participation in implementation processes, involving a wide range of stakeholders, including civil society, from the planning stage.
Civil society must be in a position to make sure this happens and to make the most of opportunities presented by the Global Goals at the national level.
WaterAid has been working with the End Water Poverty Coalition SDGs task team to develop the Agenda 2030 national context assessment tool which takes the form of an online survey to help with this.
It poses a series of questions to help capture, share and learn from key information about how implementation is being taken forward by national governments.
This information will help to:
i) ensure transparency and knowledge sharing, and identify important information and capacity gaps; and
ii) inform evidence-based national advocacy plans - and the more actors that complete these context assessments the more useful it will be in meeting these objectives.
Although the obstacles to Agenda 2030 implementation will vary from country, there are some common themes emerging - the information from these assessments will be shared to inform shared learning, best practice case studies and the potential development of capacity-building resources/activities.
This exercise should be a starting point to inform national advocacy around Agenda 2030 implementation.
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18. Group exercise The Global Goals [Ideas for optional group exercise]
The Agenda 2030 national context assessment questions can make a good framework for discussion - for example:
1. Ask participants to complete the survey in advance and come ready to discuss their answers.
2. Adapt some of the questions to guide a group discussion e.g.
Do you know if there is a lead ministry responsible for implementation of Agenda 2030? If so, which?
Has government held external consultations to begin planning? Were you invited?
Is government prioritising certain goals over others? If so, which? Could there be opportunities to link to WASH?
What information gaps do you need to fill to inform next steps?
3. Ask representatives from the same country to work together on answering the questions as part of a group discussion.
NB. please keep a record of the discussions had and/or ensure they are uploaded to the national context assessment online, or shared with EWP at for the benefit of other national WASH civil society actors - any feedback on the checklist questions or process is very welcome.
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19. The Global Goals
Global Goals toolkit
Available at and includes:
Goal 6 targets and indicators ‘at a glance’
A guide to WASH advocacy and the Global Goals
The Agenda 2030 national context assessment tool
A template Powerpoint on the Global Goals and Goal 6
A template advocacy letter
A frequently asked questions sheet
A media guide and template press release
A briefing on WASH indicators
Two infographics on the links between Global Goal 6 and the other Global Goals and targets
A short film on the Global Goals and Goal 6
The WaterAid Global Goals toolkit is designed to aid advocacy work aimed at achieving Goal 6.
It features a range of different resources and is available online from and some of the resources are available in print (in English, Portuguese and French).
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20. Two links to make a note of:
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Thank you
Two links to make a note of:
For Agenda 2030 implementation national context assessment
For Global Goals toolkit and other useful links and resources
To sum up, this talk aims to provide an overview of:
What the Global Goals are;
Why they matter for WASH;
What is the latest state of play in implementation, monitoring and accountability processes;
The role of WASH civil society within Agenda 2030; and
Resources to aid participation.
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21. Your questions The Global Goals
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