SDG 6

Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) aims to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water, while providing hygiene for all by 2030. This chapter details a cross-stakeholder Vision Program that guides and plans community engagement and strategic governance efforts through a bottom-up, integrated approach to developing a roadmap for achieving SDG 6, including all Governance Program agendas, Assessment and Reporting governance breaches, all identified financial constraints and challenges to achieving programs, unexplained gaps, and risks, particularly implementation and other critical bottlenecks. Community-driven models, such as Water User Associations and Community-Led Total Hygiene models, and strategic community governance approaches on implementation in the last mile, are outlined. The chapter analyzes relevant aspects of strategic planning, with an emphasis on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) as the primary cross-sectoral planning and policy IWRM and on other strategic agenda frameworks to avoid integrated decision-making systems in record-keeping silos and to manage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks. The chapter highlights emerging applications of strategic IWRM, field-level Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensing, and other ultra-modern technologies to automate governance and ESG frameworks for real-time decision-making and adaptive, data-driven, responsive governance. The chapter aligns with the rest of the other chapters of the book to present a holistic view, including next steps such as innovative data-governance silos; data that form a collaborative, transparent, and open system; capacity and governance silos; bottom-up models; and frameworks to breakthrough in global access, equity, and advancement in water and hygiene as a primary strategic goal frames.