The second HyCRISTAL annual meeting brought project team and other stakeholders together to get to share the progress made and allowed the team to identify and harmonise cross-pillar activities; interact with partners and identify decisions that needs to be made; conduct field visits to understand and appreciate the practical realities on how climate variability and change is exacerbating water and sanitation situation at community level; refine the developed decision-relevant metrics based on user-sectors inputs; develop prerequisites for a regional engagement strategy; and formulate the project legacy indicators.