Promotion
Making water and sanitation sector governance work
WaterGov is a collaborative process to strengthen governance and regulation in the water and sanitation sector, combining a structured methodology, a digital platform and technical assistance.
It supports countries in assessing the maturity of their governance and regulatory systems, benchmarking their performance internationally, developing reform roadmaps, supporting their implementation and monitoring progress over time. It brings together governments, regulators and development partners to foster peer learning and the exchange of reform experience.
Partnership
Support
The collaborative process that makes governance visible, measurable, and actionable.
How the process works
The process follows of a sequence of guided steps.
Commitment
Formalise the commitment and appoint the team responsible for carrying out the process
Training
Train the designated team
Diagnostic
Assess the current situation against a reference model of good practices
Audit
External audit of the responses and their consistency
Results
Obtain a detailed assessment with interactive dashboards and identify opportunities for improvement
Benchmarking
Compare results with those of other countries and regions
Action plan
Define an action plan
Implementation
Implement improvement actions
Monitoring
Monitor implementation of the plan annually
Key accelerators
WaterGov integrates a set of accelerators that support the implementation of each step of the process.
Reference framework
of good practices.
Repository of practical
resources.
Recognition of progress and good practices.
Global monitoring of trends and progress.
Funding opportunities for reforms.
Global community driving reforms.
WaterGov around the world
+600
Governance practices analysed
19
Beneficiary countries
15
Diagnostics
10
Action plans
Turning policy and regulation
into better services to people.
Moçambique
| AURA
Costa Rica
| ARESEP
Buenos Aires
| ERAS
Uruguai
| URSEA
Peru
| SUNASS
Barbados
| FTC
Cambodia
| MISTI
Brasil
| ARES-PCJ
Bolivia
| AAPS
Paraguay
| ERSSAN
Belize
| PUC
Chile
| SISS
Brasil
| ADASA