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title: "Akvo webinar: How to set up a water quality testing system at national level"
description: Discover key takeaways from a country-wide programme with Akvo, UNICEF and the Ministry of Water Resources in Sierra Leone.
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# Webinar: How to set up a water quality testing system at national level

##  Watch the webinar 

### Key takeaways from our country-wide programme with UNICEF and the Ministry of Water Resources in Sierra Leone

Watch this webinar to gain insight into best data practices, lessons learned, and dashboards that have been guiding the programme so far and will inform the next steps.

### Learn how to:

- Identify your water quality programme's steps towards impact
- Design a solid survey to minimise data cleaning and optimise data use
- Capture a wide variety of water-related data to support decision making
- Avoid the common pitfalls of water quality data collection at scale
- Check data quality on the go and analyse it to generate insights
- Monitor and evaluate your programme to improve and showcase your results

![Screen Shot 2020-07-21 at 13.02.31](https://datajourney.akvo.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Screen%20Shot%202020-07-21%20at%2013.02.31.png?width=433&height=263&name=Screen%20Shot%202020-07-21%20at%2013.02.31.png "Screen Shot 2020-07-21 at 13.02.31")

### Speaker

![Geert.biog_.240](https://datajourney.akvo.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Geert.biog_.240.jpg?width=240&name=Geert.biog_.240.jpg)

**Geert Soet**  
Data services expert, Akvo Amsterdam

 

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