Watershed International WP  - WI Integrated Water Resource Management including Sanitation and Hygiene Sustainable  Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services through Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) 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.. The role of ecosystems in safeguarding the availability of raw water and cleansing used water will be emphasised. 

Watershed will ensure that evidence, knowledge and lessons from district-scale interventions 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.

In addition to Mali, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, India and Bangladesh, 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. Improved governance of the WASH/IWRM sector, responsive to the interests of marginalised groups.