Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water and sanitation is the first internationally agreed framework for progress monitoring in the water sector that embraces the whole water cycle. In the past, international monitoring efforts focused on global and country level access to drinking water and sanitation. SDG 6 introduces new indicators on water quality, water demand and scarcity, integrated water resources management and the protection and restoration of water-related ecosystems. Global progress reporting in the water sector is now expanding in scope. However, the data for this monitoring is not always available, nor are local staff and monitoring systems necessarily geared to this change. The SDG 6 knowledge hub provides:
- Research into existing data availability and identification of data gaps;
- Training and capacity building on SDG 6 indicators and monitoring requirements;
- Documentation of good practices to guide the way forward on each individual indicator;
Current projects:
- Research into data availability and identification of gaps in Kenya at national and subnational level (in collaboration with UN Habitat)
- Documentation of good practices:
- documentation of Jordan’s experience with increasing the proportion of wastewater safely treated (SDG 6.3.1): forthcoming UN Habitat publication
- documentation of Tunisia’s experience with increasing public participation in water related decision making: publication with University of Utrecht Law Review https://www.utrechtlawreview.org/49/volume/16/issue/2/
- documentation of Kenya’s experience with the protection and restoration of the Aberdares range: forthcoming 2021 publication in Palgrave Macmillan handbook of Climate resilient societies