Global Water Security and Sanitation Partnership Annual Report 2020

The Global Water Security Partnership (GWSP) was launched in 2017 as an international partnership to support countries to meet the targets related to water and sanitation under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those of Goal 6. GWSP provides client countries, other development partners and World Bank staff with global knowledge, innovations and country-level technical support while also leveraging World Bank Group resources and financial instruments. This report describes GWSP’s results and the impact it has made over fiscal year 2020 (FY20), the 12 months from July 2019 through June 2020. FY20 was unusual, with two distinct parts: between July 2019 and the early spring of 2020, GWSP was focused on driving progress toward the achievement of SDG 6, with a strong focus on the intersection of water services and climate change. In February 2020, COVID-19 burst into our collective lives and quickly became a priority. The partnership quickly reoriented its resources to help partners battle the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19. The response to the pandemic was undertaken while maintaining the focus on the SDG 6 targets. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is evident throughout this year’s report.