Indicators, measures and methods for monitoring climate resilient WASH: scoping and definitions

Overview

Accelerating efforts to manage climate and water and sanitation in a more coordinated and sustainable manner is a cross-cutting theme with the UN System-Wide Strategy for Water and Sanitation. This background document clarifies the purpose of global and national monitoring, and the scope of indicators, measures and methods that should be considered for inclusion for this project. It also presents a conceptual framework or ‘theory of change’ that locates these indicators, measures and methods in relation to existing theories and definitions of resilience and related concepts in climate change adaptation