Watershed Uganda - WI Integrated Water Resource Management including Sanitation & Hygiene Watershed will focus its interventions most intensively in Uganda and Kenya, where a full range of interventions from local to national scale will be undertaken. In Mali, Ghana, Bangladesh and India, a more limited set of context-specific and strategic interventions will be undertaken. 

Through a series of interventions, from district to national level, we will ensure that evidence, knowledge and lessons from district-scale interventions in target countries are translated upwards to influence governance and policy at national, regional and international levels. Change in policy and practice will be achieved by evidence-based lobbying and advocacy by Watershed partner organisations and civil society organisations (CSOs) in the target countries

Sustainability of WASH services is the ultimate goal of Watershed, where water insecurity threatens or coincides with weak WASH services, the partnership will seek to connect all water users and stakeholders— central and local governments, the media, the private sector, research and academic institutions, utilities, CSOs and networks—in dialogue around good water resource management and WASH service delivery. The role of ecosystems in safeguarding the availability of raw water and cleansing used water will be emphasised. 

Outside the focus countries, Watershed will advocate in the Netherlands and in regional and international arenas for the role of civil society in WASH governance. It will support select policy objectives that connect to the country-level issues identified in the first year of the partnership and in subsequent assessments. 

Furthermore, we aspire to expand our reach by engaging donors, investors and new partners in additional countries. In the countries where we work, competent CSOs and their networks lobby effectively for realising the human right to water and sanitation and reducing inequalities in access to WASH and IWRM services. As a result,
- Governments plan, budget, implement and monitor transparent WASH and IWRM regulations. Policies and budgets are based on clearly identified citizens’ needs (and rights), promote gender equity, and are ‘pro-poor’—that is, they address vulnerable, minority, marginalised and very poor members of society.
- Governments lead implementation of IWRM programmes that ensure WASH provision is ‘ecosystem-smart’, contains sustainability safeguards and is climate proof. Assessments of water resources policy and management will address likely climate change scenarios.
- Communities and citizens organise and acquire the capacity to demand their rights to water and sanitation, and they participate in WASH planning and budgeting.

 In the global WASH and IWRM arena, global civil society effectively demands fulfilment of the human right to water and sanitation and equitable and sustainable allocation of water resources. As a result,
- International donors actively support achievement of the human right to water and sanitation, and they comply with aid effectiveness principles.