The Watershed programme has provided the much-required entry point for the CSOs at large, and for women, specifically, into the basics of the planning for and management of water and sanitation. It has facilitated women’s participation in community proceedings as...

Two large scale programmes have been working in Kajiado County to improve the civic space since 2016. Namely: Watershed, which focuses on water, sanitation, hygiene and Integrated Water Resource Management (WASH/IWRM), with a budget for Kenya of about € 450.000...

The Citizen Scoring is now in 4th year consecutively in2020. It has been introduced at Bhola in 2017 and practised yearly since then. The Water Management Citizen Committee-WMCC at Bhola uses the Citizen Scoring to give feedback on the quality of services on WASH...

After identification of Corona-virus Bangladesh is now facing a lot of challenges. In this prevailing situation, DORP is very close to field colleagues and CSOs at the local and national level. Since the beginning of Covid-19 crisis, we have responded in various...

The present paper has analysed the Central Finance Commission and State Finance Commission Grants and budgetary provisioning through Centrally Sponsored Schemes like National Health Mission, Integrated Child Development Services and Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan for WASH...

The discussion paper has used both primary and secondary sources of data. The important sources of budget data in the district are the Annual Financial Statements and the Quarterly Progress Reports of the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS), National...

This discussion paper has tried to look into the implementation and key recommendations of the Central Finance Commission (CFC) and State Finance Commissions (SFC) focusing on Bihar and Odisha. Section I covers the introduction, objectives, scope and methodology...

This consolidated policy brief puts together the findings of two projects – Watershed – Capacity Building Support for Civil Society Organisations to Leverage Water and Sanitation Programmes in Bihar and Odisha supported by IRC, and Tracking and Analysing...

This report describes about an online workshop conducted by Simavi for Watershed Bangladesh on “Leave No One Behind” in 2020. (more…)

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...

Numerous water projects in Kenya have failed due to poor community entry. According to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI), more than 34.4% of Kenyan households depend on point sources of water (springs, boreholes), while 64.3% live in the rural areas. A...

The Kajiado County Rainwater Harvesting Bill, 2019 is a private member’s bill brought to the County Assembly of Kajiado for possible enactment into an Act of the Assembly. The Act would provide for compulsory harvesting of rainwater in every residential,...