About Us
The New International Benchmarking Network for Water and Sanitation Services (New IBNet) is currently being designed to become an independent global information system and partnership. New IBNet will invite utilities and other service providers, regulators and researchers, to systematically share data on service delivery performance and on management practices. Based on such data, New IBNet will offer analyses and other data-based services that will allow IBNET members – water and sanitation service providers, regulators, and others – to take informed decision, including on management action and on investments, and thus to improve their performance.
What we do
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:
- establishing standard performance indicators that reflect utility performance
- promoting transparency by publishing the indicators of utilities that participated in the IBNET network
- developing and using benchmarking methodologies that allow for comparing otherwise very different utilities with each other
The IBNET website provides also other resources such as a regularly updated tariff database, benchmarking methodologies, and regional platforms based on IBNET (Voice of the Danube and the Pacific Water and Wastewater Association Benchmarking)
Our global reach
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.
New offerings with IBNET
Data services for Utilities
- Online data repository with consistency checks and custom reports
- Insightful comparisons between utility performance benchmarked with others
- Find and connect with others based on a similar context as yours
- Community of Learning to connect and learn from others
Data services for Regulators
- Online data repository with consistency checks, and custom reports
- Insightful comparisons between utility performance benchmarked with others
- Community of Learning to connect and learn from others
Data services for Development Planners
- Data access for water and sanitation utility performance (indicators only)
- Insightful comparisons of utility performance with a wide range of filtering options
- Connect and learn with others