The World Bank’s

Water and Sanitation Program

Almud Weitz

Ivo Imparato

Regional Team Leaders September 10th, 2013

SWP Knowledge and Trade Fair

Quick Facts on WSP

• 30+ year old global partnership

• trust funded, 15 donors

• 130+ staff in 24 countries across 4 regions

• annual budget around $40 million

Goal: support governments scale up water supply

and sanitation services for the poor

Methods: technical assistance, capacity building,

leveraging knowledge and partnerships

Six Core WSP Global Business Areas Business Plan - Fiscal Years 2011-2015

Scaling up Rural Sanitation and Hygiene

Creating sustainable services through Domestic Private Sector Participation

Targeting the Urban Poor and improving services in Small Towns

Supporting poor-inclusive WSS Sector Reform

Mitigating and adapting WSS sector delivery to Climate Change Impacts

Delivering WSS sector services in Fragile States

Sample of Global WSP Activities

Slide 5

Scaling Up

Rural

Sanitation

Economics of

Sanitation

Initiative

Global WSP Initiatives

Sanitation

Hackathon

2012

WSS Sector

Assessment

LAC AFR

EAP SA

LAC AFR

EAP SA

AFR

EAP SA

AFR

EAP SA Linking problems with solutions by

tapping innovations in sanitation

Finding gaps and factors that underpin progress in the WSS Sector.

Study estimates economic losses from poor sanitation

Developing an enabling

environment for rural

sanitation demand and

supply at scale

LAC

Economics of Sanitation Initiative

Economic Arguments to

Prioritize Sanitation

Misperception

Countries can

afford to wait to

invest in sanitation

until all other

growth objectives

are met

• Ignoring Sanitation is

costly: countries lose up to

7% equivalent of GDP

(health, water resources,

tourism and environment)

• In Cambodia more than

50% of the economic

losses are due to tourism

and water resources

Results

Used by governments and

partners to make their

case

• 300% increase in

sanitation budget in

Indonesia

•Economics of Sanitation

in India data cited in

preamble to the 2012

Water for the World Act:

U.S. House of

Representatives

Country-led bottleneck analysis at a glance

$ Services

Finance:

How much has

been spent and

where it is

coming from

Outcomes:

Progress and

remaining

disparities

Service Delivery Pathways:

The process by which finance

is turned into services and

how to improve it

Service Delivery Assessments

EAP SAR

222

AFR

LAC

38

MAPAS

Service

Delivery

Assessment

Adapting Service Delivery Assessments

Across the Globe

Country

Status

Overview 32 countries

3 countries +

4th in progress

8 countries

3 countries

+ 5 states

in India

8

Global reach with local impact

Best local practice disseminated globally

Peer to peer learning globally

Delivering Value to the Poor: Innovative Market-based Solutions for Rural Sanitation

2 3 2 3

Paradigm Shift

• Peru to Nicaragua

• Bangladesh to

Indonesia

• Tanzania to Ethiopia

• Indonesia to Laos &

Cambodia

Transfer of Learning

into World Bank Loans

Changing the

perception of the poor:

From “Beneficiary”

To “Consumer”

• Bangladesh

• Indonesia

• Nicaragua

• Tanzania

• Vietnam

South-South Learning

Taking Risks to Innovate

Opportunities for Partnerships

2 3 2 3

• Tendering of World Bank-executed activities

(country-level and globally)

• Collaboration with academic institutions

and think tanks

• Joint advocacy through global fora such as

SWA, post-2015 MDG Agenda, etc.

www.worldbank.org/water

blogs.worldbank.org/water

www.wsp.org

@wspworldbank

Thank You!