The International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation (IBNET) was set up by the World Bank in 1994 to encourage water and sanitation service providers to improve their performance by establishing a database that would offer, amongst other things, a functional benchmarking tool in multiple languages, utility-specific reports, and a tariff database toolkit.
In the past two decades, IBNET has been recognized for its achievements in:
The New IBNET website provides other resources such as a regularly updated tariff database, dashboards on utility performance by Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Management Practices Indicators (MPIs).
Since its inception, IBNET has collected data from over 5,000 water and sanitation service providers from over 150 countries across the world, representing around a third of the world’s total number of water and sanitation service providers.