Overview of the IFRC WASH West and Central Africa Zakari Issa, WASH Coordinator

content General Overview: Opportunities and challenges Emergency Roster Way forward

Opportunities and challenges Disparities and complexities continue to be latent: volatile working environment (migration, epidemics, flood, malnutrition, volatility of peaceful living environment: de-structuration of government authority, population movement, variability of geographical and climatic conditions); unstable NS structures; insufficient HR/support from IFRC All NS are engaged in WASH implementation(most in Emergency) but still with very limited capacity Networking with high level institutions and sector leads: River basin authorities, AMCOW, WSA, UNICEF,; with Academia and professional bodies: WEDC, BIOFORCE, RWSS, etc.

RM in the WASH sector need rethink: multi sectoral/flagship long-term projects; Sustainability of funding; new global strategic direction completed… We expect Funding streams for developmental/flagship to further increase as well projects to be open ended…between now and 2020 Keeping up to date HR mapping database: need some level of sustainability

Emergency roster Most deployment requests are related to the WASH and shelter HR while only 29% are trained in general RDRT WASH No RDRT trained as RDRT WASH in epidemics context as at now

Looking forward to Going at scale: linking achievements to SDGs need innovative approach – new IFRC WASH strategic direction and its implementation PoA Sustainability for our developmental efforts and support? Seed funding needed: Expanding flagships and HR; visibility/communication/engaging partnership and coordination;

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