Understanding water integrity risk
Integrity is an essential protection and resilience mechanism for the water and sanitation sectors, but there is no one-size-fits-all path to building it.
To effectively improve governance and prevent corruption, water sector stakeholders need to understand the integrity risks they face, as well as relevant levers for action. We are here to help.
Make your water work integrity ready
We research pressing integrity issues as well as strategies to strengthen integrity. We also support water institutions, NGOs, and service providers with integrity risk assessments. Our open-source integrity assessment tools highlight key areas of risk and action for water sector reform, programme design, and institutional development.
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Identify red flags in planning of infrastructure for water and sanitation
Delayed dam repairs, unfinished pipelines, unused wastewater plants, and major cost overruns are the common results of poor integrity and corruption in early phases of infrastructure planning. The consequences are lasting economic, social, and environmental harm.
Focusing primarily on controls in procurement instead of planning is too little, too late.
Integrity indicators can help examine early-phase infrastructure planning issues, like conflicts of interest or skewed decision-making to manipulation of budgets.