University of North Carolina 30 October 2015

WSP Progress and Impact Assessment in Ethiopia

Waltaji Terfa, NPO/PHE, WHO Ethiopiakutanew@who.int

Outline • Water Safety Plan

• Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan

• Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan implementation progress in Ethiopia

• WSP Impact Assessment

• Value of impact assessment

information

• WSP linkage to SDG monitoring

• Lessons

• Challenges

• Way forward

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Water Safety Plan Water Safety Plan

Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan: A WSP that considers climate change in a way that ensures that safe water is supplied to users in enough quantity and which considers the sustainability (i.e. resilience of the system & infrastructure).

Important concepts linked to resilience:

• Capacity to anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from and adapt to stress and change

• Ability of the system to keep on functioning in a way that it maintain its essential function, identity and structure.

Water Safety Plan

A comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that includes all steps in the water supply from catchment to consumer

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WSP in Ethiopia in 2012WSP in Ethiopia in 2012

WASH sector Joint technical review – Water quality status assessment as part of the joint sector

technical review(JTR)

– 12 institutions involved. Nonetheless, continuous, comprehensive & proactive water quality monitoring and surveillance activities have done in none of these institutions... Safety was a low priority

– Result was presented to WASH multi stakeholders forum in the same year

– WSP came out as one of the major undertaking of the 5th WASH Multi-stakeholders Forum meeting in the same year

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WSP Started in 2013 WSP Started in 2013

Partners– German Agro Action

Jan 2013 TOT for project Woredas with

WHO support. Small community Water supply

Serving multiple villages over 98km pipe line

– Drop of Water

3 small community water supplies

– COWASH: Community managed water supplies

WHO technical support – Training– Planning & resource mobilization

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National Workshop March 2014 National Workshop March 2014

Sharing experiences on rural water safety plan, from different organizations

– COWASH, UNICEF, Drop of Water and German Agro action

Explore how Ethiopia can scale up water safety planning as an instrument to improve WASH sector performance

Meeting / Workshop title| Date7 |Ethiopia Country Office

WSP in Ethiopia 2014Policy Framework

National framework

Meeting / Workshop title| Date8 |Ethiopia Country Office

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2014Tool for implementation

Implementation Guidelines

Meeting / Workshop title| Date9 |Ethiopia Country Office

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Capacity building Training

• TOT with WHO support 26 participants 5 from Tanzania

• Multi sector participants Water,

Health, Environment, Agriculture,

meteorology & University

National Technical Working Group from sectors involved in TOT

Urban utilities & Small community managed water supply training package was developed by TOT & used for cascading training

Meeting / Workshop title| Date10 |Ethiopia Country Office

National Validation Workshop 2015

Framework & Implementation guidelines

Meeting / Workshop title| Date11 |Ethiopia Country Office

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2015Implementation

• Cascaded CR-WSP Team training, planning, water quality testing & established baselines

387 trained

Meeting / Workshop title| Date12 |Ethiopia Country Office

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2015Implementation

• With the support of WHO/DFID project 9 water supplies( 6 urban & 3 rural) implementing CR-WSP serving 500,000 Population

• Scaling up to more 4 water supplies before end of 2015

Meeting / Workshop title| Date13 |Ethiopia Country Office

WSP Impact Assessment & its Value

• To establish baseline & measure progressive improvement of water supplies safety & service reliability through time

• Changes in knowledge & understanding of safety, quantity & sustainability among supplier, consumers & decision makers

• Change in operation, maintenance & management practices

• Help in policies, guidelines & SOP development & utlization

Meeting / Workshop title| Date14 |Ethiopia Country Office

WSP Impact Assessment & Its Value

• Infrastructure improvement , service expansion & supplier institutional arrangement including min laboratory establishment

– Utilities & small community water supplies included control measure & improvement cost in their ongoing O&M budget

• Additional resource mobilization from WASH program & uptake of CR-WSP by partners

• CR-WSP as indicator performance evaluation for suppliers with set of defined criteria including good governance .

Meeting / Workshop title| Date15 |Ethiopia Country Office

WSP linkage to SDG monitoring

To halve the proportion of the population without access at home to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services; andto progressively eliminate inequalities in access.

Water Safety PlanImpact Assessment

SDGs Water and Sanitation Working Group

Indicators Measurement unit

Coverage % households access to Safe source

Quantity Per capita per day (lpcd)

Continuity hours/day ; day/week; weeks/month; Months/year

Quality Critical parameters … Total coliform, fecal coliform, E.Coli… cfu/100ml

Sanitary hazards/risk

Revealed by on-site sanitary inspection low, medium, high , very high

Cost/ affordability Tariff and % of consumers paying

These indicators are very important elements of water supplies for public health

WSP Impact on Reliability of Water Supplies Services

Meeting / Workshop title| Date17 |Ethiopia Country Office

Challenges

• Resource for infrastructure & watershed level CR-WSP

• Technical capacity and tools for designing & implementation of CR-WSP– Expert capacity. Example prefer to select water source sites in

most cases in marshy areas/ prone to flood to increase precision of water availability.

• Multi sector involvement – Settlement and agricultural activities with in 300m Buffer zone

Meeting / Workshop title| Date18 |Ethiopia Country Office

Way forward

• Inclusion of CR-WSP to WASH Program planning, implementation & report; regulatory … framework millstone

• Scaling up to more urban & rural water supplies

• Continue capacity building of the suppliers, surveillance & regulatory

Way forward • Water resource inventory(WRI) ground & surface

• Water resources vulnerability assessment(VA) at basin & catchment level

• CR -Water Safety Plan including infrastructure implementation at watershed (ecosystem) level.

• GIS application(WRI,VA & CR-WSP)

Meeting / Workshop title| Date20 |Ethiopia Country Office

Lessons• Start with high level decision makers commitment

• Capacity building for experts & staffs at water supply

• Knowledge & understanding are very important for changing business as usual

• Partnership ……… development partners & Universities

• Ownership of the water supply staffs (manager to security guard) & community

Conclusion

WSP is Instrumental from catchment to point of use for incremental drinking water service improvement

WSPs respond to O& M, quality &

System reliability challenge of water supply

systemNone

functionality

Addressing Environmental Safe guard

including Climate risks

Addressing HWTS as part of WSP specially for small community

water SupplyHWT Options compliment

Behavior gaps

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Conclusion Conclusion

Therefore, we need to: – Act Now

– Act Together

– Act Differently

Thank you!

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Acknowledgement Acknowledgement

Triningo W/ G, German Agro Action

Arto Suominen, CO-WASH Technical Advisor

Hermella Wondimu, Drop of Water

Angella Rinehold, WHO

Osman Yiha, WHO Technical support to Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy

Semunesh Golla, Director of Water Quality and Hydrology, Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy

Balew Yibel & Eyob Abebe, Expert of water quality & hydrology, Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy

CR-WSP Technical Working Group