Perspectives in Water and Sanitation Development Trends SEFLUC/FWEAUC Joint Meeting December 11, 2017

The Water Crisis: The global water and sanitation challenge is enormous, requiring innovative approaches and an unwavering focus on creating permanent solutions. There is debate over the scale of the problem internationally but figures are considerably higher by taking into account the persistent rate of infrastructure breakdown.   Regardless of the numbers, too many people, mostly girls and women, walk past broken pumps on their way back to polluted water sources. If this infrastructure had been developed to last, the world would not have a drinking water crisis of any significant scale today.

According to Water For People 2 According to Water For People 2.1 billion people around the world don't have access to safe water and 4.5 billion lack access to adequate sanitation. Women and children spend more than four hours walking for water each day, and more than 840,000 people die each year from water-related diseases.

Shared Vision But Where Are We In Achieving WASH Goals? Create a world where all people have access to water and no child dies from water or sanitation related disease Water sector data suggests that progress towards UN goals ( Millennium Development Goal and its predecessor Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 6) is slow In order to achieve goals for universal access to water and sanitation by 2030 requires fundamental change in WASH sector approach

On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and individuals. Many of these goals overlap.

Solution: System Wide Approach Focus on key building blocks of WASH sector: Policy Financing Institutions 3 levels of decision making District (local/regional) National Global Bottoms up and top down simultaneously NGO’s who are now collaborating: IRC, WaterAid, Water For People, Osprey foundation and Aqua Consult in Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi and Honduras working together to align programming, use strengths, and build networks.

Engineers Without Borders EWB-USA and EWB-I with regional & country offices Professional and student chapters & Engineering Service Corps (international) and Community Engineering Corps (U.S.) Mission is to partner with disadvantaged communities to improve quality of life through education and implementation of sustainable engineering projects Promote global experiences for engineers and engineering students and similarly motivated non-engineers; create sustainable solutions and promote student leadership skills through hands on project management . Partner with communities requesting services in the U.S. and internationally

EWB Country offices improves quality, efficiency, sustainability, and cost management plus benefit of presence Number of chapters= Approximate number of projects= Multiple chapters work in __ countries Aim to build on and exchange knowledge with local expertise, are accountable to local leadership and train local engineers and technicians so projects last. Who’s involved in projects: volunteers, community members and other local partner NGO’s.

EWB Program Areas Disaster response Agriculture Infrastructure WASH Energy

Positive Change is Multi-Dimensional Delivering positive change in sector performance necessitates a system-wide approach that tackles all dimensions—policy, financing, institutions and other key building blocks—of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector as whole. This will require a reform agenda, based on a sound understanding of the political economy, at three levels of decision making: city or district, national and global

Solutions - Global Level Sustainable WASH Services is a UN recognized fundamental human right new partnerships better use of existing finances plus new funding sources Commitment to monitoring for improvement

Solutions - National Level Provide responsive services that reach all communities by strengthening key sector blocks: Policy/strategy Coordination Finance Regulation and accountability

Solutions - City and District Level Set goal to ensure every household, school and clinic has access to water and sanitation Alliance between local government, communities and local private sectors Flexible WASH management models: public, private, community or combined Comprehensive investment plans coordinated by district and city-level agencies Dissemination of local level work learning to higher levels Strengthen local and national monitoring systems Ensure community empowerment and engagement by holding governments and service providers accountable

Water For People 5 Core Principals Every family, Every school, Every clinic All pay (in order take ownership) Monitor Location of work Program results How finances are allocated Make Districts aid independent Create local business opportunities Develop District-level micro-bonds Investments that grow local accounts Replicate and Scale Provide national initiative guidance Form alliances and partnerships with NGO’s Collaborate to fill agency program gaps to collectively support governments Bolivia water drop on all houses that have water; every country in the world has money for water and sanitation but it isn't used b/c of disconnect in transferring money from national to districts; point of aid and philanthropy is to make positive change in partnership with government and local private sector and then not be needed anymore

What Makes Collaboration Different? Promote harmonized district level work to ensure WASH services to communities Ensure national level systems in place to enable districts to reach everyone forever. Enhance government leadership of sector planning process Strengthen and use country systems Use one information platform Build sustainable water and sanitation sector financing strategies