What is UWIN?
A coalition of water sector stakeholders that aims to bring water integrity centre stage in Uganda and improve accountability and transparency through networking, capacity building, documenting good practices, information management, and sharing and learning on experiences. UWIN will maintain a strong link to the Working Group on Good Governance of the Ugandan Ministry of Water and Evironment in the water sector over the coming years.
Why UWIN?
The core rationale of UWIN is to contribute to an improved Good Governance (GG) in the water and sanitation sector in Uganda. Presently, the most important platform for WASH GG is the Good Governance Working Group (GG WG) chaired by the Ugandan Ministry of Water and Environment with many non-governmental and private sector members, and broadly supported by the Development Partners.
The Good Governance Action Plan (2009--2012) of the GG Working Group has been updated based on the results of two extensive water integrity studies (Baseline Survey and Risk and Opportunity Study) organised by the Ministry of Water and Environment, WIN and the Water and Sanitation Programme Uganda. The studies highlight the risks and opportunties for corruption in the Ugandan water sector and cite public procurement as the area most prone to corrupt behaviour.
The GG Action Plan has been approved by the WASH sector stakeholders, formally in the Joint Sector Review of the Ministry of Water and Environment in October 2009 where WIN was explicitly mentioned. The Action Plan is the steering document for GG actions in that period. The GGWG is also the monitoring platform for progress on the action plan. UWIN will complement the GGWG and other related initiatives and identify additional effective synergies to directly work with and support the GG WG.
UWIN is a coalition of Ugandan based organisations that strives to contribute to WASH GG through different activities centred around learning, sharing and capacity development. The Good Governance in the WASH sector has presently a limited knowledge base, and furthermore, it is not easily accessible to all WASH sector staff including politicians; UWIN will address that.
UWIN will raise the profile of WASH GG. The present fragmented actions and activities, and poor coordination among the different organisations will be replaced by a more coordinated, ‘concerted’ collaboration in GG. The centre piece of the activities will be the Action Plan of the GG WG.; however, the UWIN coalition may also develop activities complementary to the GG Action Plan. The WASH sector has various areas needing attention. Government, private sector and NGOs alike have expressed need for development of specific areas, such as political interference, regulation, implementing policies, contracting , social accountability, communication on fund flow and use versus results to the public in the communities, etc.
Who are members of UWIN?
All water sector and anti-corruption stakeholders can be a member of UWIN. The stakeholder groups include national and local government officials, politicians, agencies such as the National Water and Sewerage Corporation, Civil Society Organisations (incl. water, transparency, anti-corruption NGOs), NGO associations, private sector associations, academia, and Development Partners (incl. bi-lateral and multi-lateral (UN, WB, WSP) funders, INGOs, etc.)
Proposed activities under UWIN umbrella
- Contribute to implementation or fully implement activities as approved in the GG Action Plan
- Short-term study on functioning, procurement and regulation on rural and small town water supply
- Feedback and communication with GGWG
- Monitor on performance management of small town water services (link to JSR 2010)
- Capacity building on good practices, tools on accountability in rural and urban water supply and services
- Training on Integrity Pact in water projects
- Pilot Integrity Pact for new contracts in small town water supply and services
- Raising awareness and organising media events on water integrity
- Produce press releases and news items & flashes on good water accountability for national and local media
- Conduct Water Integrity study in collaboration with GGWG and MoWE
- Coordinate water mapping in three selected areas
- Document and share existing good practices (methods and tools) for local & social accountability in water
- Baseline Water Integrity Survey (Full Report)
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The baseline survey assesses how water consumers and providers experience integrity in the provision of water, covering both rural and urban areas. The survey covered rural and urban areas across Uganda. Seven respondent categories were involved in the study: rural water consumers, urban water consumers, local government staff, water authority representatives, contractors, National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) staff, and Private Operators. Such baseline studies are used worldwide and are a useful tool to create awareness among policymakers on citizens’ satisfaction with government services. Moreover, these studies are important for monitoring and evaluation as they serve as a tool to measure change over time.
- Baseline Water Integrity Executive Summary
- Risk-Opportunity Mapping Study (Full Report)
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The countrywide Risk and Opportunity Study (mapping) complements the baseline survey. This sector-specific study maps and assesses the risks related to, and opportunities for, the promotion of good governance in the Ugandan WSS sector. To realize the above objectives, this study documents ongoing processes in the water sector that aim at strengthening integrity and accountability, while at the same time identifying institutional bottlenecks to effectively fighting corruption.
UGANDA Risk Opportunity Mapping Study - Full Report - AUGUST 2009.pdf (1.90 MB)
- Risk-Opportunity Mapping Study Executive Summary
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UGANDA Risk-Opportunity WSS Exe Summary - AUGUST 2009.pdf (308 kB)
- Report on the Uganda Water Integrity Workshop: Revising the Anti Corruption Action Plan: Sept 09
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This workshop was organised to discuss issues related to water integrity in the Ugandan Water and Sanitation Sector (WSS) through examination of the findings of a Risk and Opportunity Mapping Study as well as a Water Integrity Baseline Survey. The studies provide insights into integrity and governance issues in the water and sanitation sector (WSS) and support the review of the Water and Sanitation Sector Anti Corruption Action Plan.
The workshop which was organised by MWE and supported by WSP and funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), drew close to a hundred participants from the local and central governments including, the office of the Auditor General (AG), Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets (PPDA), Inspectorate of Government (IGG), Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MOFPED) and Directorate of Ethics and Integrity (DEI), National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) as well as international participants from the Water Integrity Network, the Stockholm International Water institute, Transparency International and the World Bank.
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