World Water Day

  Climate-related hazards, shocks and stresses present a growing threat to WASH services. Governments and development partners are responding to the risks of climate change by addressing climate resilience, adaptation and mitigation. This section focuses on how countries and development partners are defining climate-resilient WASH, how climate is included in WASH policies/plans (including reaching populations disproportionally affected by climate change), climate risk assessments, monitoring climate-resilient WASH , climate finance and development partner support to WASH and climate In the GLAAS 2024/2025 cycle, countries and development partners were asked how they define climate-resilient WASH. Thirty-nine per cent of countries (37 of 96) reported having a national definition of climate-resilient WASH and below are some of the definitions. • Belize : Climate-resilient WASH refers to WASH services and behaviours that continue to deliver benefits, or are appropriately restored, wit...

  When United Nations Member States adopted the universal, integrated and transformative 2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs in September 2015, they expressed their determination “to mobilize the means required to implement” it. Given the central importance of sufficient “means of implementation” to achieve the SDGs, Member States adopted 43 MoI targets under Goals 1–16, denoted by letters, and a dedicated Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development. The MoI underpin the achievement of the sustainable development outcomes envisaged by the 2030 Agenda and its 17 SDGs. The UN describes MoI as “the interdependent mix of financial resources, technology development and transfer, capacity-building, inclusive and equitable globalization and trade, regional integration, as well as the creation of a national enabling environment required to implement the new sustainable development agenda, particularly in developing countrie...

  Aid and technical assistance from development partners is an important component and funding source to build, strengthen and maintain WASH systems and services in many developing countries. While development partner support for WASH remains high, major shifts are ahead in the official development assistance (ODA) landscape. Twenty-one development partners, including multilateral development banks, bilateral donors and NGOs, completed the GLAAS 2024/2025 development partner survey . In this section, data from the GLAAS development partner survey are complemented with ODA data from the OECD Creditor Reporting System (CRS). This section focuses on trends in water and sanitation ODA, priorities, targets and strategies of development partners, leveraging funding and looking towards the future of aid for WASH . Bilateral and multilateral donors that report development aid activities to the OECD reported total ODA commitments of US$ 306 billion in 2023, a 1.1% decrease from US$ 309...