News from WIN
Legal entity for WIN to be formed
In 2006, the Water Integrity Network (WIN) was founded by a group of water sector organisations (IRC, SIWI and WSP-AF) and Transparency International (TI) to respond to growing concerns about...
Press Release - 1st International Water Integrity Forum
Press Release
1st International Water Integrity Forum, UNESCO-IHE, Delft Netherlands-5th to 7th June 2013
A call for action to expand base and increase pace to address water integrity challenges...
The 1st Water Integrity Forum kicks off
First Water Integrity Forum: Extend the base – Increase the pace
The first Water Integrity Forum is starting tomorrow. The forum was organised to address the need for extending the reach of water...
Third cewas Start-up programme
WIN’s partner cewas is the international Training Centre for start-ups in the water, sanitation and resource management based in Willisau (Switzerland). They are currently organizing their third...
Lauch of online course on transparency, accountability and participation in the water sector
In April 2013, UNDP Virtual School and WIN have launched an online course on “Increasing transparency, accountability and participation in the water sector”. The course started early April and will...
Water Integrity News
A central role for government in monitoring sustainable WASH services
Governments are not only investing more in national monitoring systems, but their leadership in country monitoring is also now generally accepted. With this acceptance, however, come expectations about good governance...
17th African Water Association Congress, 17-20 February 2014, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Organised by: African Water Association (AfWA) and SODECI s.a. Theme: Mobilizing Resources and Governance of Water and Sanitation in Africa Sub-Themes: Integrated Management of Water Resources and Climate Change Capacity Building for...
2013 Budapest Water Summit, 08-11 October 2013, Budapest, Hungary
The objective of this high-level summit is to take stock of the various developments, in and outside the UN system, in preparing water-related goals for the post Rio+20 development agenda....
Definitions
- Integrity is about the need for public, private and civil society sector representatives to be honest in carrying out...
- Transparency refers to the right of citizens to access relevant information. Openness and public access to information are...
- Accountability is a broad concept that entails several dimensions and is often used in different ways. Some see it as a...
- Participation is a term with many different meanings. Some stress that it refers to the most basic indication of democratic...
- Corruption is about breaking socially established expectations of appropriate behaviour, and this is why a cultural approach is...
