What if water and sanitation monitoring data …
World Water Week Side Event - Stockholm, 8 September 2010
What if water and sanitation monitoring data …
- cost less to gather
- were more up-to-date
- were spatially disaggregated
- were simpler to share and access
- were easier to understand
Stockholm World Water Week Side Event
www.worldwaterweek.org
17.45-18.45, 8 September 2010, Room T4
Download the flyer in PDF here.
A key weakness in the water and sanitation sector is absence of reliable data – data which can help our understanding of service provision for the poor and provide information to enable consumers, service providers, policy makers and donors to act more decisively and monitor the impact of their interventions.
Google.org and UN-HABITAT together with partners ITC, GTZ, WaterAid and others, are leading an exciting initiative which tests innovations in sector monitoring and seeks to help put in place powerful and effective monitoring systems on a global scale. The vision guiding this initiative is that access to reliable, specific and wellpresented visual information on access to WSS services can improve sector advocacy, and accountability between service providers and consumers. The vision is not only to provide tools which service providers can use to better manage services, but also to create a tool, in the public domain, by which citizens can access meaningful information on WSS service provision and so enter into dialogue with service providers on their improvement.
Monitoring Services to Inform and Empower
h2.0 Platform Launch
Stockholm World Water Week Side Event www.worldwaterweek.org
17.45-18.45, 8 September 2010, Room T4
At Stockholm World Water Week 2010, the Consortium will launch its
new online, public platform for water and sanitation monitoring data.
Come and see how you can be part of the monitoring revolution!
www.h20initiative.org
The session will be chaired by Frank Rijsberman of Google.org and will feature highlights from innovative monitoring approaches developed by UN-HABITAT, GTZ and Kenya’s Water Services Trust Fund, ITC (University of Twente), WaterAid, and the Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance.
Wine & Cheese to follow