& Hygiene

Jae SoWater and Sanitation ProgramStockholm, Sweden, August 2009

Update onWSP’s Global Sanitation Strategy&

Moving Forward with Sanitation and Hygiene

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Status of the WSP Sanitation Strategy:

Progress since 2006

2006 Global Sanitation Crisis study presented in Paris

2007 41% of WSP portfolio sanitation and hygiene2 regional sanitation conferences

2008International Year of Sanitation Economics of Sanitation 2 regional sanitation conferences

2009 70% of WSP portfolio sanitation and hygiene; 6 sanitation studies; Launch of Hygiene Strategy

2010-2018 Leveraging

Knowledge and Partnerships to scale up sanitation and hygiene

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1. Status of the WSP Sanitation Strategy

2. Update on WSP Action Plan to support IYS

3. WSP Hygiene Strategy

4. Next Steps

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Results of WSP’s Action Plan for IYS

Components of WSP’s IYS Action Plan

1. Partnering to Implement International Year of Sanitation

2. Advocating for Reform

3. Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up

4. Sanitation Roadmaps

5. Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge

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Partnering to Implement IYS

Global Advocacy

LATINOSANNovember 2007

SACOSAN IIIOctober 2008

AFRICASAN VFebruary 2008

EASANNovember 2007

Governments Put Sanitation and

Hygiene on Political Agenda

•Generate political commitment•Prepare country-level sanitation MDG roadmaps•Follow-up for national policy reforms and sanitation scale-up programs

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Partnering to Implement IYS

Implementing eThekwini commitments

• AU Heads of State Endorsement of eThekwini Declaration a turning

point

• 25 country action plans developed

• Increased budgets for sanitation: $10m (TZ) and $2.3m (Burkina);

• Kenya: Separate Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation + 4% budget

increase

• AMCOW capacity to provide leadership in implementation growing

• AMCOW Secretariat operational

Strategic direction:

• Country level: Support implementation of country action plans

• Regional level: coordinate tracking of eThekwini commitments

• WSP coordinating implementation

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Economic sector work is raising the profile of

sanitation and getting governments to take action

Advocating for ReformEconomics of Sanitation Initiative

The Economics of Sanitation Initiative

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Building Local Government Capacity To Provide Poor-inclusive Urban Sanitation Services

Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up

Urban Sanitation

6 small and medium sized towns have produced city-wide poor-inclusive Sanitation Strategy

Approach is now being used by the government as basis for their Acceleration of their Urban Sanitation Program to reach 330 cities by 2014

Indonesia Sanitation Sector Development Program (ISSDP)

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Building Local Government Capacity to Change Sanitation Behaviors and Increase Access to Rural Sanitation

Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling UpRural Sanitation

Sanitation coverage increased from 0.5 million people in 2006 to almost 3 million in 2009

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“Igniting” Amhara (Ethiopia) to Scale Up Hygiene and Sanitation

10 Districts “ignited” and moving towards ODF

~1million people reached through program

Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up

Scaling Up Hygiene and Sanitation

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US$ 100,000 in sanitation micro-loans by private banking sector

Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge

Creating Sanitation Markets in Peru

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Six Country Study on Sanitation Finance

Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge

Understanding Sanitation Finance

Allocated capital costs per household

A Range of Onsite Sanitation Financing Options Exist

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• Partnership building strategies• Behavior change methodologies• Enabling Environment strategies• M&E methodologies and tools• Capturing knowledge• Visit is designed according to learning needs (7 to 10 days)• Real time learning – immersion in the field, trainee becomes part of the

process• Two way learning – feedback provided by trainee

Lessons are shared across regions as they happen through innovative sharing techniques, providing technical assistance to other countries upon demand.

Technical assistance

Internships

Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Guatemala Nicaragua Honduras Panama

Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge

Regional Knowledge Sharing

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Development of capacity building and training materials is critical for scaling

up sanitation and hygiene

Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge

Creating Country Focused Knowledge

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Moving Forward on Sanitation

Donors & Partners:Harmonization & Alignment

Country LevelMonitoring

Institutions, Policymakers

Service Providers

Citizens

Further Support to Countries to Scale Up Rural Sanitation in Ethiopia, Tanzania, India, Indonesia

Sharing lessons on working with the domestic private sector to improve sanitation products and services

Sustainability of CLTS in Bangladesh, and Sanitation Marketing in Vietnam

Sharing Lessons and Supporting Sanitation Scale up in new Countries

Impact Evaluation of large scale Sanitation and Handwashing interventions in 6 countries

Political Economy of Sanitation

Economics of Sanitation Initiative in SAR and AFR, and phase II in EAP

CSO- Africa Phase II (in 30 countries)

Regional partnerships in East Asia and Africa with key development partners

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