Increased institutional capacity in partner countries

The Trust Fund normative and operational activities aim to strengthen the capacity of service providers and local communities through training workshops, technical assistance, peer-to-peer exchanges and the development and dissemination of normative tools. Efforts have also focused on supporting and participating in regional political processes and events to promote models of good practice and raise the profile of pro-poor urban water and sanitation services.

Increased flow of investments catalyzed by Trust Fund interventions

Partnering with regional development banks and multilateral financing institutions (African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, European Investment Bank and the World Bank) has ensured that innovative approaches and solutions demonstrated through Water and Sanitation Trust Fund activities are linked to large-scale investments.  The most successful collaborations have resulted from having both parties involved from the beginning in the formulation and appraisal missions and subsequent stages of the project development.

UN-HABITAT’s work in the monitoring the water and sanitation sector has focused on improving the quality of monitoring data so data collected can contribute more effectively to MDG monitoring while at the same time informing local decision-making and project evaluation. These efforts have resulted in improving the relevance of collected data (for example by including geo-referencing, socio-economic indicators, physical features, citizen feedback), reducing the cost and increasing the capacity to collect data, making data more publicly available and training people to access and apply it to decision-making.