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Accountability Report OıStatus of Commitments and Announcements Six Months on from Global Citizen Festival India on November 19, 2016 May 2017: Version 1.0 All Rights Reserved Global Citizen India 2 Introduction to the Global Citizen India Accountability Report Six months ago, on November 19, 2016, Mumbai was home to Driven by the shared ideals of actualizing the potential of young one of India’s largest ever entertainment events, hosted by people in India, and of channeling their collective voices as a Global Citizen Festival India, a partnership between Global catalyst for social change, the Global Education and Leadership Citizen and The Global Education & Leadership Foundation Foundation (tGELF) partnered with Global Citizen in 2016 to embark (tGELF). As an 80,000+ crowd gathered to celebrate the Global on the fifteen-year resolution of the Sustainable Development Goals Citizen Festival India with Coldplay, Jay Z, Amitabh Bachchan, (SDGs) together. Global Citizen India sought to address three A. R. Rahman, Vidya Balan, Demi Lovato, and two dozen specific SDGs in our 2016 campaign: Bollywood stars taking the stage, it was clear that it would be a night to remember. • SDG4: Quality Education – With the world’s largest population of youth, education must be one of India's top priorities. As UN India notes, "a quality education is the foundation of sustainable And, indeed, it was a night to remember, but not merely for its development, and therefore of the Sustainable Development scale and star power. Global Citizen India quickly became a Goals. As a policy intervention, education is a force multiplier movement uniting policymakers, corporate leaders, pop culture which enables self-reliance, boosts economic growth by icons, faith leaders and citizens for an ambitious goal: ending enhancing skills, and improves people’s lives by opening up extreme poverty by 2030. In two short months, over 500,000 opportunities for better livelihoods.” citizens made their voices heard by taking over two million actions on https://www.globalcitizen.in/ demanding the United • SDG5: Gender Equality – Ensuring girls and women achieve Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) be met. These equal status and equal opportunities is essential to building Goals, identified by the United Nations, are crucial for ending healthier, better-educated, and more sustainable communities extreme poverty and for galvanizing global social improvement. 3 Photo: Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, and Poonam Mahajan, Member of Parliament, at Global Citizen Festival India 2016 across the planet. However, in the second decade of the 21st By completing online and offline actions, Global Citizens called century, the flagship program of the Indian government still upon governments, corporate leaders, faith leaders, and centers on “Saving the girl child…” and there is still a long way international organizations to play their parts in achieving the to go for the status of women in India. More than ever before, Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. These actions, combined we need to work toward empowering women and breaking the with our high-level advocacy and the efforts of our partners, resulted barriers that hold women back. in 25 major commitments that are set to affect the lives of 516 million people. • SDG6: Clean Water and Sanitation – With over 50 percent of rural Indian households lacking access to toilets, 600 million Now, six months later, this report shares our assessment of the progress achieved to date against each of these commitments. We Indians defecating in the open, and nearly 200,000 Indian will continue to diligently monitor these commitments and pledge to children dying from water-borne illness each year, the issue of clean water and sanitation cannot wait. In alignment with Prime regularly, transparently, and openly share their developments with Minister Modi's Swachh Bharat Mission, Global Citizen India you. seeks to see an end to open defecation and a world where all people have adequate access to safe drinking water. 4 Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 4. SDG6: Clean Water & Sanitation 33 a. Table of Contents 5 a. 1. Ending Open Defecation 34 b. Executive Summary 6 b. 2. Access to Clean Water 41 c. Impact, Monitoring and Accountability: Our Methodology 7 c. 3. Water-Use Efficiency 43 d. How do we ensure our commitments are honored? 8 d. 4. Sanitation & Hygiene Behavior Change 45 e. Impact & Accountability: Explaining Our Report 9 e. Announcements and Calls to Action 51 f. Overview Status 10 5. Achieving the SDGs in India: Other Development Goals 56 g. Future Focus: Global Trends 13 a. Announcements and Calls to Action 62 2. SDG4: Quality Education 16 6. Sources 65 a. 1. Digital Education and Smart Classrooms 17 7. Appendix 67 b. 2. Sanitation in Schools 20 8. About Global Citizen 68 c. 3. Nutrition for School Children 22 d. Announcements and Calls to Action 24 3. SDG5: Gender Equality 26 a. 1. Women in the Workforce 27 b. Announcements and Calls to Action 5 and sanitation infrastructure across Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi and Haryana. Viacom18 has effectively utilized its expertise in media and Executive Summary communications to promote behavior-change campaigns in sanitation, most notably through the movie “Toilet Ek Prem Katha” (“Toilet, A Love Story”), scheduled for release later this year. Global Citizen India, a partnership between Global Citizen and Many other commitments are also demonstrating strong progress, tGELF, convenes change-makers with those who seek and this report explores them in depth. change. We are a social movement to amplify the collective voice of Global Citizens in India and beyond, directing this voice This report also holds commitment-makers accountable for their for social good, toward regional politicians, world leaders, and promises, particularly where progress has been slower than multinational corporations. Central to the Global Citizen expected. We aim to share news of further progress from IDFC Bank movement is holding our leaders to account for the promises and the Government of Karnataka in time to publish in our next made on our platforms, or as a result of the actions of Global report. Global Citizen India and our platform stand ready to support Citizens. Half a year since Global Citizen Festival India, which and promote the success of their commitments. saw 25 commitments toward achieving UN Sustainable Accountability reporting at Global Citizen plays a vital role in our Development Goals 4, 5 and 6 (Quality Education, Gender ability to truly affect change: by systematically and transparently Equality and Clean Water & Sanitation), we are now reviewing the progress of commitments and announcements made continuously tracking their performance until completion. through our campaigns and events, we can ensure leaders are held accountable to their promises. Overall, the commitments stand in a promising place. Programs and initiatives by faith leaders, corporate heads and political This journey has only just begun. We look forward to the fourteen decision-makers have created impact across the three SDGs, years ahead, until the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030. As and many geographies to empower millions of people. we continue to hold each other to account. Let’s use our collective voices for social good; to disrupt the status quo; and to Some commitments have shown particularly marked transform India and the planet! progress. The HP India World on Wheel buses, in their pilot phase, have traveled across rural Haryana and educated With hope, passion and dedication, children, women and local elders on important education and Global Citizen India health issues. Yuva Unstoppable has revamped schools’ water 6 commitment-makers, NGOs and multilateral organisations — to provide data to calculate “lives set to be affected,” and later, “lives Impact, Monitoring and impacted.” Due diligence processes are conducted in-house by our policy team, in partnership with the impact & accountability and Accountability: global policy & advocacy teams. Monitoring & Accountability Methodology Our Methodology “Accountability” is the term that we use for ensuring the intended “lives set to be affected” measure transforms into actual “lives Impact Methodology impacted,” as promised. It is our core evidence-based tool to Global Citizen India has adopted “lives set to be affected” as celebrate successes, hold commitment-makers to account through our main indicator of impact for commitments made through our follow-on campaigning, and to learn lessons to drive new platforms. We have adopted this indicator as we believe that campaigning efforts. these commitments are only meaningful if they actually make a difference on the ground and affect people’s lives for the better. Global Citizen's accountability methodology is an on-going iteration of our impact methodology. At the heart of the process is continuing open dialogue with the partners that originally made the A Global Citizen India commitment has been made when a clear commitment, alongside our original campaigning partners, promise to commit funds or resources, or to change a law or multilateral organisations, and the NGOs receiving those policy has been announced from our stage or social platform, commitments. following significant numbers of Global Citizen actions and/or high level advocacy efforts undertaken by Global Citizen, or Global Citizen India. Once made, those making commitments are then accountable to Global Citizens, and to whom promises of social change have been made, most notably those living in conditions of extreme poverty. Since Global Citizen India is an advocacy and campaigning platform, we rely on our partners — a combination of commitment 7 FESTIVAL STAGE How do we ensure our commitments are PERIODIC honored? REPORTS For each commitment, Global Citizen India reaches out to all TALENT & SOCIAL appropriate sources for information and expert insight on the MEDIA ACTIONS progress achieved to date, including from an independent source when possible. We also strive to collate evidence of on- the-ground impact to help visualize the nature of the impact in practice, as well as conduct desk research for additional supporting information.