WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation
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Structure and governance of the JMP

The JMP is jointly managed by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. It comprises a small number of technical staff in both organizations, including water and sanitation specialists and statisticians within the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Unit, at WHO, and the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Department and the Statistics and Monitoring Section at UNICEF.

A Strategic Advisory Group (SAG) has been established to assist the JMP to bring in independent, strategic thinking into the further development and implementation of the Joint Monitoring Programme.

The SAG provides strategic guidance to ensure that access to safe drinking-water and improved sanitation is properly monitored up to the MDG target date of 2015 and beyond. This group, which meets once a year, is composed of independent technical and policy experts with a strong track record in strategic thinking and leadership in the sectors. The SAG is also tasked with advising on the best way to ensure that the work of the JMP and GLAAS is fully complementary and coordinated.

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The JMP has been advised for some years by a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) that is currently being restructured. The objective of the TAG is to provide, through a pool of experts and professionals, technical advise on important issues.

The JMP is currently setting ad-hoc Task Forces, drawing from a broad range of technical experts, mostly drawn from the TAG, to advise on specific technical issues, thus maintaining a high level of credibility and scientific rigour. [read more…]

These Task Forces will further explore how best to monitor important aspects such as drinking-water quality and safety, time-to source, issues pertaining to sustainable access, affordable access, reliability, impact of seasonality on access, safe disposal and treatment of pit content and sewerage and adequacy of particular sanitation options in high density urban areas, etc.

Finally, the JMP partners with a number of other UN organizations, multi-lateral and bi-lateral aid agencies, and non-governmental organizations.