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From the initial stages of the emergency, the WASH coordination platform have a key role in relaying and reporting information on needs and response. Reporting can have many specific objectives: by the WASH coordination platform has several specific objectives and target, as listed in the table below. All reporting template and examples can be found in the Visual and reporting templates section of the Information management chapter.
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Operational gap analyses | At subnational level, there is the need for the WASH partners to be quickly informed about needs and response gaps to orientate their operation |
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| Inform strategic decision | At national level, there is the need for HC/HCT, the National WASH coordination platform and the donor to get consolidated information on response input and quality, to understand the reason for bottleneck and be able to address them |
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| Report on strategic indicators | At national level, there is the need to report on HRP strategic indicators, to feed OCHA and UNICEF |
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| Advocacy | At global level, there is a need for the Global WASH Cluster and WASH partners' HQ staff to understand the nature of the quality issues faced by the partners and the possible underlying causes (lack of capacity, specific technical or contextual challenges, lack of funding…) in order to provide adequate support and advocate as necessary |
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| Accountability | To enhance accountability and participation, affected population must be informed of the current and expected level of WASH services |
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Much of the reporting can be anticipated: a calendar of reporting requirements must be developed by the WASH Sector Coordinator in consultation with OCHA and UNICEF (as CLA) and included in the WASH Coordination Platform workplan in the early stages of the response. The robustness of the analysis plan, indicator definitions and calculations, and means of data collection, compilation, and cleaning – covered in the preceding Chapters – comes into play: provided these are in place, it will be easy to update and automatize reporting tools and products. That will minimise the time spent on basic reporting, and allow the IMO to focus on other more strategic tasks.
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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.
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WASH sector dashboards objective is to provide a visual snapshot of the emergency response progress against strategic indicators, as well as main response gaps. They present analysed data from recent monitoring results, especially from 4/5 W. Dashboards are produced on a weekly or monthly basis, usually following the cycle of 4/5 W submission by partners. They are shared with all actors and published on the WASH sector website. Sector dashboards are compiled by OCHA to produce overall response dashboard. See template and example in the document sections above. |
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A WASH sector bulletin/sitrep contain more text than the dashboard. See template and example of bulletin in the document sections above. 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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Reporting to UNICEF and OCHA sitreps
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