Development Management Institute, with the financial support of the UNICEF, has established the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), Observatory  with the vision to contribute to the dignity, health, and well-being of women and children in Bihar, who currently suffer the consequences of inadequate, limited or no sanitation and poor WASH services. 

Mission: It is to support the WASH programme implementation in Bihar by providing timely and rapid insights, organizing dissemination seminars, workshops, and other such capacity-building initiatives. 

Following interventions are proposed under the WASH observatory:

•  Series of Competency Enhancement Programme for the state/district/block level functionaries of LSBA/SBM on the issues related to ODF Sustainability
•  Participatory research to track processes and impact of different national/state flagship programs related to water & sanitation.
•  National/State level consultations on issues around water supply, water quality, sanitation, and hygiene promotion.
•  Process documentation of different WASH sector interventions
•  Concurrent monitoring of WASH programme and schemes
•  Capacity building training and learning exchanges for programme implementers
•  Informing new cadre of development practitioners being trained at the DMI in the form of academic training and in a longer-term developing "WASH elective" available for incoming students
•  Engaging with the government for policy-level engagement with emerging WASH issues such as in urban areas- slums, fecal sludge management and other such second-generation WASH faced by the state
•  Organizing policy dialogue, dissemination seminar/through social media, workshops and such interactions among practitioners and policymakers
•  Writing policy papers, practice papers, journal articles, and its publications
•  Media tracking and analysis of WASH issues.