Water Integrity Global Outlook 2016
To strengthen integrity, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are crucial in addition to financial reporting. Furthermore, it is high time that the quality of governance became an integral part of sector monitoring everywhere. Monitoring itself, at national and global levels, is an essential tool for accountability. At the global level, there is a need for stringent, harmonized and nationally relevant monitoring and reporting mechanisms, including on the progress towards achieving the SDG water and sanitation targets. The new UN-Water initiative 'Integrated monitoring of water- and sanitation-related SDG targets' (GEMI; formerly Global Expanded Water Monitoring Initiative) represents an important effort to this end and should be strongly supported by UN Member States. The Water Integrity Global Outlook 2016 is a central guiding document for the coming years. It will inspire us to strengthen integrity in the water and sanitation sector and beyond.
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