1. CARE Emergency WASH & Gender Programming
Minimum Commitments Pilots
Beth Megnassan
April 2016

2. The Emergency WASH Team Overview of WASH in Emergencies
Contents
The Emergency WASH Team
Overview of WASH in Emergencies
What are Gender Minimum Commitments in WASH
What has been done so far
Next steps
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3. The Emergency Global WASH Team
CARE’s WASH team responds to both acute and complex emergencies around the world with various interventions. Nick Brooks – Team Leader Damian Seal - WASH Advisor Beth Megnassan – WASH and Gender Advisor
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4. What do we see here?
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5. Why Gender Minimum Commitments in WASH?
How consultative are we? Is participation inclusive enough? Do we give voice to groups at particular risk of violence or who might be frightened or unable to access our facilities, such as adolescent girls or persons with reduced mobility? Are our public latrine and shower blocks of sufficient quality to meet dignity and safety needs? How about our water supply facilities?

6. Why Gender Minimum Commitments cont.
The Global WASH cluster partners agreed that 5 minimum commitments should be observed in all their humanitarian WASH programmes to ensure that the distinct assistance and protection needs of the affected population are met.
Four organizations (ACF, CARE, NCA and Solidarites) and 4 country clusters (DRC, Niger, Lebanon) committed to piloting the implementation of the approach in their respective missions or with the cluster partners since November 2014.
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7. Why Gender Minimum Commitments cont.
These commitments, centred on people, aim at improving the quality and efficiency of the WASH response programmes in every context, and at ensuring that key issues are taken into consideration by all partners, such as gender, gender based violence, child protection, disability, and age (social inclusiveness).
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8. Gender Minimum Commitments for WASH
WASH Minimum commitments for
the safety and dignity of affected people
ASSESSMENT
DESIGN
Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to appropriate and safe WASH services
Consult separately girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities, to ensure that WASH programs are designed so as to provide equitable access and reduce incidences of violence
IMPLEMENTATION
Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to feedback & complaint mechanisms so that corrective actions can address their specific protection and assistance needs
ACROSS THE RESPONSE
Give priority to girls (particularly adolescents) and women’s participation in the consultation process
RESPONSE MONITORING
5 commitments
Monitor and evaluate safe and equitable access and use of WASH services in WASH projects

9. WASH Minimum commitments for the safety and dignity of affected people
Outputs
ASSESSMENT
Consult separately girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities, to ensure that WASH programs are designed so as to provide equitable access and reduce incidences of violence
WASH assessments include identification of specific needs of girls, boys, women, men, including older people and persons with disability in terms of safety, dignity and equitable access
Location of WASH facilities and their design are determined through separate consultations of girls, boys, women, men, including older people and persons with disabilities in order to ensure equitable access and minimize risks of violence
DESIGN
Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to appropriate and safe WASH services
WASH facilities are designed to respond to distinct dignity, safety and access needs (i.e. all public latrines and shower blocks are separated by sex, locks on the inside, privacy screens considered, lights, pictograms, specific design for people with disability…). This includes WASH facilities in spaces dedicated to children.
Menstrual hygiene needs of girls and women are met
IMPLEMENTATION
Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to feedback & complaint mechanisms so that corrective actions can address their specific protection and assistance needs
WASH users (girls, boys, women, men, including elders and persons with disability) are informed of their rights and understand the feedback complaint mechanisms related to WASH programs
The cluster member organisations and coordination platforms set up a feedback mechanism with and for beneficiaries and take timely corrective actions to address safety, dignity and access issues raised by users and/or to redefine their assistance
RESPONSE MONITORING
Monitor and evaluate safe and equitable access and use of WASH services in WASH projects
Baselines and M&E tools include the collection of sex and age disaggregated data on the access and use of WASH facilities, including on how safe people feel using WASH facilities
Collection and analysis of disaggregated data on beneficiaries and information on older people and persons with disability contributes to improving safe and equitable access and use of WASH services for vulnerable population
ACROSS THE RESPONSE
Give priority to girls (particularly adolescents) and women’s participation in the consultation process
Specific focus group discussions are organized for women and girls during the needs assessment phase and across the response

10. What has CARE done so far
So far, CARE has piloted the commitments in Niger, Lebanon, and Nepal
Lebanon – Country Programme
Nepal – Country Programme and District WASHCC
Niger – National WASH Cluster
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11. All the answers to the questions are YES GREEN
The Scoring
All the answers to the questions are YES
GREEN
More than HALF of the answers to the questions are YES
ORANGE
Half or less of the answers to the questions are YES
RED
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12. NAME OF THE ORGANISATION
Baseline Findings
NAME OF THE ORGANISATION
Assessment
Design
Implementation
Response monitoring
Nepal
 ORANGE
Niger
 RED
  ORANGE
  RED
Lebanon
   RED
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13. Results of Pilots
Integration of the Rapid gender analysis results in a much more integrated and focused manner.
Change in the design of the facilities to ensure that dignity and safety needs of the users are better met, for instance toilet designs also took into consideration not only the needs of the women and girls but also those of the elderly and those living with disabilities.
The MEAL Frameworks were also adapted to reflect the needs and feedback mechanisms from the most vulnerable groups including the elderly and those living with disabilities
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14. Results cont.
Particular focus is placed on commitment 2, for the equal access to WASH services and facilities that are appropriate and safe thus offering an increased attention to female hygiene needs e.g female hygiene/dignity kits.
Changes in partners’ approaches and activities have taken place. Partners now report an increased consultation with affected populations at the planning phase, increased consultation of the beneficiaries about the siting of the facilities, improved design of the emergency toilets and shower blocks so as to address dignity and safety needs.
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15. Cont.
Clearly targeting the elderly and people living with disabilities. These had been mostly forgotten or ignored
The ability to rate performance with regards to how well one is integrating the issues from the various categories of most vulnerable people (women, girl, boys, men, elderly, people with disabilities)
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16. Key Limitations
For the cluster in Niger, they cited the inadequate staff to take care of individual support to partners and effective monitoring of the implementation of the approach as a limitation.
Training materials provided by GWC had overlooked the fact that some team members may not have been trained on basic gender aspects. This was a major gap.
Inadequate knowledge about how to deal with specific needs of the elderly and those living with disabilities
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17. Need to roll it out to other sectors but with adaptations
Scale Up
Using the lessons learnt from the pilot, there are plans to scale up the process to other countries. (already done in Vanuatu)
Improvement of the training materials for introduction of minimum commitments to take care of gaps identified.
Need to roll it out to other sectors but with adaptations
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18. Stay Safe! Thank You THANK YOU
Everyone will be safe, dignified and happy
Stay Safe!
Thank You
THANK YOU
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