1. Zambia - Vision Long term vision Focus for 2014-2016
- Provide improved water and sanitation to all in order to improve people’s quality of life and enhance socio-economic growth by 2030.
- Achieve universal access to water and sanitation by 2030.
Focus for
- Put in place an investment mechanism to enhance sustainability.
- Scale up sanitation coverage in rural and peri-urban areas to reach un-served communities .
- Put in place an effective IMIS to improve planning, resource allocation and monitoring
Water:
64% have access to improved water. Almost on-track for MDG
Sanitation:
42% use improved toilets
17% practice O.D. Accelerating, but clearly off-track
Inequalities: 50% Zambians access improved water source compared to 80% in urban

2. Challenges Key bottlenecks
- lack of a fully functional Management of Information System
- inadequate financing, especially for sanitation
- poor profiling of sanitation
- low hygiene communication.
Tools used:
2012 Bottleneck
Analysis Zambia

3. Progress on 2012 commitments
Key achievement areas
- Human resource allocation to Local Authorities
- Devolution of some functions to Local Authorities in line with the decentralization policy
Areas of slow achievement
- Financing to water and sanitation.
- Sanitation coverage and achievement of open defecation, especially for rural and peri-urban areas.
Carry-over to 2014
- Commitments on sanitation, financing, monitoring and reporting

4. 2014 Commitments MIS Finance Sanitation Sanitation National Monitoring
The MLGH in collaboration with WASH partners to increase to 60%, the number of people with access to improved sanitation in rural and urban areas by 2016.
The Ministry of Local Government and Housing (MLGH) and the Ministry of Finance to jointly develop by 2016, a financing strategy, with specific investment targets for water and sanitation
The MLGH to implement a strategy to sustain the number of people with access to improved sanitation and adoption of hygiene practices, such as hand washing.
Finance
Joint Approach
Sustainability
MIS
Equality
National Monitoring
Capacity
The MLGH to establish by 2016, a national Management of Information System for the water supply and sanitation sub-sector to be used for planning and reporting in 65 % of all districts of Zambia.
The MLGH to develop and roll out by 2016, a capacity development strategy which will coordinate, harmonize, and prioritize capacity development activities in the Rural and Urban Water Supply and Sanitation sub-sector.