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Reporting & dissemination
From the initial stages of the emergency, the coordination platform is required to report on the emergency response. Reporting can have many specific objectives: report on gap analysis to partners, to donors, report on HRP strategic indicators, reporting to feed OCHA and UNICEF M&E system. Reporting is a responsibility shared by all coordination team member, although WCC will be more involved in the reports’ design and finalization, while IMO will work more on content and visualization. Much of the reporting can be anticipated, and a calendar of reporting requirements can be developed in consultation with OCHA and UNICEF (as CLA) and included in the WASH coordination / IM Workplan in the early stages of the response.
Produce WASH sector dashboard and bulletin
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The coordination tool kit includes a WASH Dashboard Manual to help create static and dynamic dashboards, a WASH Bulletin Briefing Sheet and templates, basic gap analysis templates and information on the reporting requirements of OCHA, including the IM Product Catalogue.
WASH Dashboard
A dashboard is typically used to illustrate some key information about the response to an emergency, for instance it can show the progress of a Cluster against targets for a particular intervention. Dashboards are produced on a cyclical basis by the coordinating agency during a response but is it also useful for the WASH Cluster to produce operational dashboards in tandem with the cycle of 4W submissions by partners (per week or month) and share this with partners and the wider community.
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- It helps to illustrate the importance of defined targets to partners;
- It encourages WASH partners to supply 4W information;
- It acts as an advocacy tool; and
- It helps to identify both gaps and over-provision of interventions in the Cluster.
WASH Bulletin
A bulletin/newsletter will contain more text than the dashboard and this is where the Cluster can unpack issues that are arising both thematically and geographically. A bulletin is a good advocacy tool where ‘news’ from partners can be added. A bulletin would normally be produced less frequently than a dashboard, and would typically:
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