Towards a Water Information System in Paraguay

Subsequently INE, in cooperation with the Global Partnership, promoted the development of activities to Towards a Water Information System in Paraguay 4 enhance the commitment of key actors in the sector to building a new system, with the objective of consolidating the sector's information through a single data platform. [...] Juan Moreno, Head of Department in the Directorate of Drinking Water and Sanitation of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications Towards a Water Information System in Paraguay 5 Activities began with the environmental sector and then with the services sector, with which systematic technical meetings have been held, programmed and aligned with the work methodology implemented by INE for the i. [...] The main activities included: • Preparing a list of possible indicators for the initial phase of the WIS from identified data sources • Analyzing the information available from the WIS 2020 Evaluation Report in Paraguay and from meetings with WIS agencies, in collaboration with the delegates, to calculate the indicators • Definition of criteria for the prioritization of indicators in the water sec. [...] • Development of a proposal of mandatory fields for the methodological sheets for the elaboration of metadata Constructing indicators During the indicator construction process, the availability of data and information was established and indicators were prioritized according to the defined criteria, and an analysis of data sources on their availability and data quality was carried out. [...] This proposal is for the consideration of all stakeholders in the water sector, such as sector authorities, the SDG Commission of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), other institutions of interest such as the Ministry of Finance, specifically the Directorate of Public Investment, Cooperation Agencies, institutions that generate and consume information, including users from civil society and aca.