1. Waltaji Terfa, NPO/PHE, WHO Ethiopia kutanew@who.int
WSP Progress and Impact Assessment in Ethiopia
Waltaji Terfa, NPO/PHE, WHO Ethiopia
University of North Carolina
30 October 2015

2. Outline WSP Impact Assessment Water Safety Plan
Value of impact assessment information
WSP linkage to SDG monitoring
Lessons
Challenges
Way forward
Water Safety Plan
Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan
Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan implementation progress in Ethiopia

3. Water Safety Plan Water Safety Plan
A comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that includes all steps in the water supply from catchment to consumer
Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan:
A WSP that considers climate change in a way that ensures that safe water is supplied to users in enough quantity and which considers the sustainability (i.e. resilience of the system & infrastructure).
Important concepts linked to resilience:
Capacity to anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from and adapt to stress and change
Ability of the system to keep on functioning in a way that it maintain its essential function, identity and structure.

4. WSP in Ethiopia in 2012 WASH sector Joint technical review
Water quality status assessment as part of the joint sector technical review(JTR)
12 institutions involved. Nonetheless, continuous, comprehensive & proactive water quality monitoring and surveillance activities have done in none of these institutions... Safety was a low priority
Result was presented to WASH multi stakeholders forum in the same year
WSP came out as one of the major undertaking of the 5th WASH Multi-stakeholders Forum meeting in the same year

5. WSP Started in 2013 Partners German Agro Action
Jan TOT for project Woredas with
WHO support. Small community Water supply
Serving multiple villages over 98km pipe line
Drop of Water
3 small community water supplies
COWASH: Community managed water supplies
WHO technical support
Training
Planning & resource mobilization

6. National Workshop March 2014
Sharing experiences on rural water safety plan, from different organizations
COWASH, UNICEF, Drop of Water and German Agro action
Explore how Ethiopia can scale up water safety planning as an instrument to improve WASH sector performance

7. WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Policy Framework
National framework

8. CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Tool for implementation
Implementation Guidelines

9. CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Capacity building Training
TOT with WHO support 26 participants 5 from Tanzania
Multi sector participants Water,
Health, Environment, Agriculture,
meteorology & University
National Technical Working Group from sectors involved in TOT
Urban utilities & Small community managed water supply training package was developed by TOT & used for cascading training

10. National Validation Workshop 2015
Framework & Implementation guidelines

11. CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2015 Implementation
Cascaded CR-WSP Team training, planning, water quality testing & established baselines
387 trained

12. CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2015 Implementation
With the support of WHO/DFID project 9 water supplies( 6 urban & 3 rural) implementing CR-WSP serving 500,000 Population
Scaling up to more 4 water supplies before end of 2015

13. WSP Impact Assessment & its Value
To establish baseline & measure progressive improvement of water supplies safety & service reliability through time
Changes in knowledge & understanding of safety, quantity & sustainability among supplier, consumers & decision makers
Change in operation, maintenance & management practices
Help in policies, guidelines & SOP development & utlization

14. WSP Impact Assessment & Its Value
Infrastructure improvement , service expansion & supplier institutional arrangement including min laboratory establishment
Utilities & small community water supplies included control measure & improvement cost in their ongoing O&M budget
Additional resource mobilization from WASH program & uptake of CR-WSP by partners
CR-WSP as indicator performance evaluation for suppliers with set of defined criteria including good governance .

15. WSP linkage to SDG monitoring
To halve the proportion of the population without access at home to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services; and
to progressively eliminate inequalities in access.
Water Safety Plan
Impact Assessment
SDGs Water and Sanitation Working Group

16. % households access to Safe source Quantity Per capita per day (lpcd)
WSP Impact on Reliability of Water Supplies Services
Indicators
Measurement unit
Coverage
% households access to Safe source
Quantity
Per capita per day (lpcd)
Continuity
hours/day ; day/week; weeks/month; Months/year
Quality
Critical parameters … Total coliform, fecal coliform, E.Coli… cfu/100ml
Sanitary hazards/risk
Revealed by on-site sanitary inspection low, medium, high , very high
Cost/ affordability
Tariff and % of consumers paying
These indicators are very important elements of water supplies for public health

17. Challenges Resource for infrastructure & watershed level CR-WSP
Technical capacity and tools for designing & implementation of CR-WSP
Expert capacity. Example prefer to select water source sites in most cases in marshy areas/ prone to flood to increase precision of water availability.
Multi sector involvement
Settlement and agricultural activities with in 300m Buffer zone

18. Way forward
Inclusion of CR-WSP to WASH Program planning, implementation & report; regulatory … framework millstone
Scaling up to more urban & rural water supplies
Continue capacity building of the suppliers, surveillance & regulatory

19. Way forward Water resource inventory(WRI) ground & surface
Water resources vulnerability assessment(VA) at basin & catchment level
CR -Water Safety Plan including infrastructure implementation at watershed (ecosystem) level.
GIS application(WRI,VA & CR-WSP)

20. Lessons Start with high level decision makers commitment
Capacity building for experts & staffs at water supply
Knowledge & understanding are very important for changing business as usual
Partnership ……… development partners & Universities
Ownership of the water supply staffs (manager to security guard) & community

21. Addressing Environmental Safe guard including Climate risks
Conclusion
WSP is Instrumental from catchment to point of use for incremental drinking water service improvement
WSPs respond to O& M, quality & System reliability challenge of water supply system
None functionality
Addressing Environmental Safe guard including Climate risks
Addressing HWTS as part of WSP specially for small community water Supply
HWT Options compliment Behavior gaps

22. Thank you! Conclusion Therefore, we need to: Act Now Act Together
Act Differently
Thank you!

23. Acknowledgement Triningo W/ G, German Agro Action
Arto Suominen, CO-WASH Technical Advisor
Hermella Wondimu, Drop of Water
Angella Rinehold, WHO
Osman Yiha, WHO Technical support to Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy
Semunesh Golla, Director of Water Quality and Hydrology, Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy
Balew Yibel & Eyob Abebe, Expert of water quality & hydrology, Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy
CR-WSP Technical Working Group