1. Unsafe drinking water & inadequate sanitation The world’s gravest and most solvable public health crisis. Foundation Dinner, March 24, 2011

3. Millennium development goal #7c “ To reduce by 50% the number of people without access to clean water and sanitation by the year 2015”

4. 1.2 billion people practice “open defecation” including more than 1/2 of people in southern Asia and more than 1/4 of sub-Saharan Africa

5. In developing nations nearly 1 in 4 people uses no form of sanitation.

6. November 22, 2011 – UNITED Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) chief, water, sanitation, and hygiene education section, Mr. Vinod Alkari, said that Nigeria loses N455 billion annually or 1.3% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) due to poor sanitation. Similarly, he added that 33 million people defecate in the open, while only 1/3 of the country’s population have access to improved sanitation, with high morbidity as direct consequences.

7. The Rotary Foundation’s areas of focus: Polio Eradication Basic education and literacy Disease prevention and treatment Maternal and child health Economic and community development Peace & Conflict resolution Water & Sanitation

8. Did you know that about 50% of these projects fail after 5 years?

9. Biggest Challenges: No system for learning model practices. We don’t know what each of us is doing. No easy way to capture lessons learned and share knowledge with each other.

10. Introducing….

11. Start with Water is designed to help Rotarians build sustainable WASH projects. Regional Teams Program Planning and Performance (PPP teams) “Endorsed” programs Alternative sources of funding (in addition to TRF) An interactive website: – Easy to identify and select the project that is right for you – A learning center and resource – Experts available to help – Access to Strategic Partners – Gather data and lessons learned

13. Sustainability 13

14. Sustainability is about whether or not WASH services and good hygiene practices continue to work and deliver benefits over time. No time limit is set on those continued services, behaviour changes and outcomes. In other words, sustainability is about lasting benefits achieved through the continued enjoyment of water supply and sanitation services and hygiene practices. From Sustainability Framework 2011, WaterAid, based on definition by Len Abrams 14

15. What Makes a Program Sustainable? Relevant program resulting in full user participation AT – selected by users Contribution by users Quality work Plan for life cycle cost – maintenance, repair, replacement cost (with needs of poorest considered) Environmental considerations Monitoring & evaluation External support 15

16. Recommendations Start first with community engagement – education, build demand, figure out process: WASH committee find out what the communities want, how life cycle costs might be handled, opportunities for small business, training Examine all options, work with communities to develop plans, make decisions train and implement Jointly develop a monitoring and evaluation plan 16

17. Welcome to the Niger River Delta PPP Team Trip: September 2011

18. EGCDC Atlantic Ocean Dodo River Idama

39. Malawi Girls School

40. $1 from Rotary Club matched by $4.26 from partners Full WASH program in 30 schools (15 in Malawi, and 15 in Tanzania)

41. What does all this mean for D9140? Regional Team volunteers (Leader: Noble Eshemitan) – Gather information on what has been done in recent years – What is still functioning properly & what needs remedial work – What can we learn from this? – What programs are being developed now – Where do we want to go in the future? Program Planning and Performance (PPP) volunteers Opportunity to pilot PPP process: – Identifying program opportunity: watershed, or logical geographic area – volunteers

43. nobleshemitan@yahoo.com nobleshemitan@yahoo.com Nancy.Gilbert@Wasrag.org www.startwithwater.org