This report draws on research from 150 primary and secondary schools in Chandpur district to analyse the status of drinking water services, in terms of access, quality, quantity, functionality, and costs.
Working paper
Drinking water services in coastal Bangladesh
This report presents empirical evidence on the existing state of drinking water services in coastal Bangladesh, highlighting challenges and opportunities for reforms in the institutional design, information systems, and sustainable finances under the proposed ‘SafePani’ model.
Policy reform for safe drinking water service delivery in rural Bangladesh
As the Government sets out to revise the 1998 National Policy for Safe Water Supply and Sanitation, the ‘SafePani’ model proposes reforms in institutional design, sustainable finance, and information systems, to advance SDG 6.1.
Citizen science in community-based watershed management: An institutional analysis in Ethiopia
This study examines the existing institutional arrangements for hydrometeorological monitoring and the practices followed by the Basin Development Authority and the National Meteorology Agency in Ethiopia.
Designing and delivering research-into-use programmes in the WASH sphere: Experience from SHARE, REACH and the USRI
This Discussion Paper considers the experience of three ongoing research-into-use programmes (REACH, SHARE and USRI), identifying the major challenges they have faced in achieving research uptake, and discussing strategies theyare using (or might use in future) to overcome those challenges.
Guideline: Selection, training and managing para-hydrologists
This guideline is aimed at technical staff involved in introducing community-based monitoring (CBM) and gives guidance on the selection, training and managing of para-hydrologists to ensure the successful running of CBM.
Guideline: Community-based hydroclimate monitoring: planning, establishing and operating
This guideline, aimed at technical staff involved in introducing community-based monitoring (researchers, development agents and woreda-level experts) provides a step by step procedures on how to plan, establish and operate community-based monitoring.
Sustainable Land Management and its Effects on Water Security and Poverty | Evidence from a Watershed Intervention Program in Ethiopia
This paper, led by IFPRI, investigates the impacts of sustainable land management (SLM) on water security and poverty based on an evaluation of a watershed level SLM program promoted in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia
Gender dimensions of community-based groundwater governance in Ethiopia: using citizen science as an entry point
This study uses a citizen-science approach to community-based monitoring of groundwater to improve governance, while also empowering women in Ethiopia
Weather and climate knowledge for water security: Institutional roles and relationships in Turkana
In this working paper the authors discuss findings from a 2016 study of the institutions involved in water decision-making in Lodwar, focusing on their access to and use (or non-use) of weather and climate information.
