In April 2014, at the third High Level Meeting of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership, 43 developing country partners and 12 donor agencies made 383 commitments to address barriers to access to water and sanitation. This report provides preliminary highlights of the status of progress on the commitments as at the end of March 2015. Monitoring of commitments is a key mechanism to improve accountability in the sector. The full report and individual partner updates will be available on the SWA website in July 2015.

1. In 2014, SWA partners tabled
383 commitments
to address barriers to delivering
sustainable water & sanitation
services. In April 2015, progress on
the commitments was as follows:
23 Completed
27 Almost Completed
164 Good Progress
110 Slow Progress
24 Major Barriers
Figure 1: Overall progress in 2015 of commitments by developing countries & Africa Region
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In April 2014, at the third High Level Meeting of the Sanitation
and Water for All partnership, 43 developing country partners
and 12 donor agencies made 383 commitments to address
barriers to access to water and sanitation. This report
provides preliminary highlights of the status of progress on
the commitments as at the end of March 2015. Monitoring of
commitments is a key mechanism to improve accountability in
the sector. The full report and individual partner updates will
be available on the SWA website in July 2015.
2015
Update
AfricaSan
Issue
Progress Update on the
2014 High Level Meeting
Commitments
All countries
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Almost complete
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No data
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Africa Region
Figure 2: Overall progress in 2015 of commitments by donors
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Good progress is being made on the majority of the country commitments and on three
quarters of the donor commitments. Almost 80% of the country commitments were made by
countries in the Africa region.
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Rwanda
Senegal
Sierra Leone
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Tanzania
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Togo
Uganda
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Count of Status of progress as of March 2015 ...
Figure 3: Progress status by individual developing country partners
Commitments are specific to each country. Progress varies greatly. 90% of the
countries
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Donor commitments are specific to each donor. Donor reporting shows little or no barriers.
Figure 4: Progress status by individual donor partners
Good progress is being made on the majority of the commitments across most categories. Progress
is weak in the financing category where there is good progress on only 34% of the commitments.
Figure 5: Overall progress status by category by donors and developing countries combined
Political prioritization Evidence based decision making National planning processes
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4. THE HIGH LEVEL COMMITMENTS DIALOGUE
The High-Level Commitments Dialogue (HLCD) encompasses the High Level Meetings, the preparatory process
that countries and donors conduct in advance of the HLMs to develop commitments and the annual monitoring of
the commitments. The HLCD is designed to encourage an on-going political
dialogue, results on the ground and accountability in the sector.
In preparation for the 2014 HLM, 46 developing countries and
16 donors and development banks engaged in an intense five-
month preparatory process facilitated by the SWA Secretariat.
There was a concerted effort to develop commitments which
are “SMART” (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and
time-bound). Countries also used available sector analyses
to understand bottlenecks and jointly developed priorities
for the sector.
The efforts invested to develop a focused, SMART set of
commitments, by a broad set of stakeholders provides a
basis from which partners can clearly advocate for results,
better implement actions and effectively monitor progress.
Monitoring progress of the HLM commitments is a key
mechanism for strengthening mutual accountability, which is one
of the SWA’s main objectives.
When the global progress update is released in July 2015, countries plan to
undertake advocacy activities to ensure continued attention toward achieving the unfinished commitments.
Countries will focus messaging and activities around the barriers and efforts required in their specific context to
sustain progress and avoid slipping back on those they have already achieved.
Two-thirds of countries (29 countries) report using one or a combination
of available sector analyses to identify bottlenecks, making the
commitments relevant to each country’s context.
GLAAS*
GLAAS* and other
Other tools
Not reported
Figure 6: Proportion of countries which
used sector analyses to develop commitments.
* UN-Water Global Analysis and
Assessment of sanitation and
Drinking-water (GLAAS) report
9 countries
21%14 countries
33%
6 countries
14%
14 countries
32%