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[http://sustainablewash.org/resource/tool-14 SWIFT] is a spreadsheet-based tool developed by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) in 2007 (Virjee, 2007). Its main purpose is to assist governments in analysing the financial status of their water sectors. This financial monitoring tool can be used to gain an improved understanding of resource flows and relationships between financing and outcomes (Fonseca et. al, 2011).

The outputs of SWİFT are financing requirements and financing availability - and hence financing gaps - shown along a large number of variables (institutions, regions, investment expenditure, current expenditure, etc.). The Public Finance Module specifies terms and conditions and projects loan service. In this way the tool facilitates an iterative process of matching the expenditures required to meet given targets with available finance and also the incorporation of the financing strategy into public budgets during strategy implementation (EUWI Finance Working Group, 2007).

* EUWI Finance Working Group, 2007. [http://www.euwi.net/files/euwi/8509_tmpphpJ2Jwqv.pdf Developing financing strategies in water supply and sanitation]. Information note prepared by COWI consultants and shortened by the FWG Secretariat.