Events

Decentralised Public Financing for WASH: Current Situation and Needs During and Beyond the Pandemic 21 August, 2020

Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability, IRC, and WaterAid India are jointly engaged in an initiative to track and analyse public spending for WASH at the local level. Under this initiative, they have worked with CSOs for improving their technical capacities and enhancing  their involvement in tracking decentralised budgets as well as improving their utilisation.

To share the experiences and learnings from this initiative, CBGA, IRC and WaterAid India had jointly organised a Webinar on August 21, 2020.

The key objectives of the webinar were to:

-Facilitate a discussion among key actors on the current status of decentralised public financing for WASH services focusing on the role of the state governments and Panchayati Raj Institutions;

-Highlight the policy and procedural bottlenecks that hinder better implementation of decentralised financing reforms;

-Discuss the potential of improved financing in the present context of COVID-19;

-Identify policy and implementation measures for improving decentralised public financing for WASH in the context of the 15th Finance Commission.