WSP – East Asia & the Pacific: FY07 Achievements and Highlights for FY08 Presentation for the 8 th Council Meeting, Amsterdam, 4-5 June 2007 Almud Weitz, Regional Team Leader, WSP-EAP

2 Contents of Presentation  East Asia’s MDG Context  WSP-EAP Program Highlights  FY07 Achievements  Highlights for FY08  Challenges Ahead

3 East Asia’s MDG Context  Region is broadly on track to meet overall poverty reduction goal….BUT:  Wide disparities among countries in reaching specific goals  Except for the Philippines and Vietnam, all other WSP-EAP countries unlikely to achieve water goal  None of them will reach sanitation goal

4 Current Likelihood of Achieving MDGs in EAP Unlikely to reach the goals Currently “on track” to achieve goals partly High coverage, goals achievable Insufficient data 145 million have no access to improved water supplies 1 billion have no access to basic sanitation Indonesia 104 MM Vietnam 47 MM Cambodia 12 MM Laos 4 MM Philippines 21 MM

5  East Asia’s MDG Context  WSP-EAP Program Highlights  FY07 Achievements  Highlights for FY08  Challenges Ahead

6 WSP-EAP Program Highlights  Dramatic increase in work program: FY07 activity rose 62% as compared to FY06, 179% up on FY05  Strong focus on sanitation and hygiene  handwashing with soap initiatives, city-wide sanitation strategies

7  Innovative regional programs such as Sanitation and Water Partnership for the Mekong Region (SAWAP)  nationally-led and inter-country initiatives, including 1 (2) provinces in China  Cross-regional adaptation of successful new approaches  community-led total sanitation

8  East Asia’s MDG Context  WSP-EAP Program Highlights  FY07 Achievements  Highlights for FY08  Challenges Ahead

9 FY07 Achievements  Indonesia - replication of CLTS, coupled with sanitation marketing, in 48 districts nationwide  Vietnam - National Handwashing Initiative to scale up, starting with consumer research study, utilizing PPPs and social marketing  ‘Bottom up’ Sanitation and Hygiene:

10 FY07 Achievements, Cont.  Communications for Reform:  Communications network set up in all 5 focus countries  Laos - IEC materials on hygiene promotion designed by 14 ethnic groups in 4 provinces for dissemination in their local communities

11 FY07 Achievements, Cont.  Decentralization and Governance:  The Philippines - capacity-building of 11 public and private water utilities to enable improved access to financing  Indonesia – under the Water and Sanitation Policy and Action Planning Program (WASPOLA), implementation of the community-based water and sanitation policy has now reached 49 districts in 9 provinces

12 FY07 Achievements, Cont.  Indonesia - ISSDP pilot cities:  production of white books/city sanitation strategies  broad-based awareness campaigns, and a sanitation declaration signed by all 6 mayor (Blitar declaration)  ‘city-up’ pressure on national government  approach being replicated by other cities and projects in the country

13 FY07 Achievements, Cont.  Domestic Private Sector Participation:  Cambodia - development of interim licensing regime for small private water suppliers  Laos - support to urban private sector providers  The Philippines - feasibility study on financing for private and public small utilities  Vietnam - embarking on leading an initiative on mobilizing the domestic private sector for water supply and sanitation under SAWAP

14  East Asia’s MDG Context  WSP-EAP Program Highlights  FY07 Achievements  Highlights for FY08  Challenges Ahead

15 Highlights for FY08  Consolidation of progress on the initiatives (ISSDP, SAWAP, SUSEA, TSSM), delivery of first measurable results, scaling up  East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation (EASAN) in Xi’an, China, Nov  Involving 16 East Asian countries  Co-organized by WSP, WHO and Unicef with financial support from AusAID, DFID and Sida  Economics of Sanitation Initiative – evidence for advocacy to increase investment

16  East Asia’s MDG Context  WSP-EAP Program Highlights  FY07 Achievements  Highlights for FY08  Challenges Ahead

17 Challenges Ahead  Translating sanitation policy reform and local government capacity building assistance into actual increase in financing and action on the ground  Achieving better monitoring of impacts  Managing a fast-growing work program and increasing staff, and finding suitable staff  Working with an increasing regionalized program without appropriate funding (project funds mostly)  Getting myself up to speed yesterday

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