American Red CrossWater and Sanitation Program

Global Watsan Meeting

Mexico City March 2006

Yohannes HagosSenior Advisor,

Water and Sanitation

Mark ToyTsunami Watsan Technical Advisor

Technical SolutionsPat McLaughlin,

Director

WATER AND SANITATION ORG CHART

Tsunami Operations

Non-TsunamiOperations

1.         Gianni Bicego Sri Lanka 2.         Aaron Brent Sri Lanka3.         John McGown Thailand4.  Martin Ede Program Manager, Indonesia5.         Teh Tai Ring Indonesia6.         Jeff Jewett Indonesia7.         Jim Gould The Maldives 8. Bigambo Nandiga Consultant, East Africa ?

ARC WATER AND SANITATION FIELD DELEGATES

TSUNAMI OPERATIONS

Country/Project Project Start Date

Project End Date

Beneficiaries

Mozambique:

Water and Sanitation (2nd Phase)

08/01/2003 03/31/2005 75,000

China:

Ningxia watsan

06/05 12/06 10,500

China:

Shanxi

Vietnam- HE and promotion in Schools

01/06 12/07 10,420

India:

Gujarat Water/Sanitation Project

(2nd Phase)

Assessment completed

Ethiopia:

Zway Hadiya Water and Sanitation

(2nd Phase)

01/23/2003 05/14/2004 31,000

SUMMARY OF ARC WATER AND SANITATION

NON-TSUNAMI

SUMMARY OF WATER AND SANITATIONTSUNAMI RECOVERY PROGRAM

Country/Project Project Start Date

Project End Date

Beneficiaries

Indonesia:

Pulo Aceh - Water Sanitation & Hygiene Promotion

7/2005 7/2010 1,200

Indonesia:

Transitional/semi per., Shelter Utilities

9/2005 3/2009 77,000

Indonesia:

Calang Water Sanitation

Est. 3/2006

Est. 12/2009

4,000

Indonesia:

IDP Immediate Needs

Est. 3/2006

Est. 3/2008

45,000

SUMMARY OF WATER AND SANITATION

TSUNAMI RECOVERY PROGRAM (CONT.) Country/Project Project Start

DateProject End Date

Beneficiaries

Sri Lanka:

Watsan (Wells and Latrines)

(2 Districts)

12/2005 12/2008 19,600

Sri Lanka:

ROTARY—School Water Sanitation

(4 Districts)

3/2006 3/2009 6,500

Sri Lanka:

Matara Resettlement Housing

2/2006 2/2010 20,000

Maldives:

Sanitation Project (small bore system) with Community mobilization activities

2/2006 6/2008 12,789

Thailand:

Phang-Nga Community Based Water and Sanitation

1/2006 12/2007 12,000

Modality of Operation

• Takes place in the context of health promotion activities.

• Preliminary health education is essential, including the identification of local volunteers for campaign.

• Participation of the community at all stages.

• Initial approaches, when feasible, through traditional and established leadership.

• Adequate time - be allowed for preliminary consultation and agreement with the water committee.

• Simplest appropriate technology / use locally manufactured or available equipments.

• Parts and tools for repair should be in the custodianship of water committees.

• Integration with other sectors could produce maximum impact/benefit to communities.

• Water supply projects should be evaluated.

• Projects are consistent with IFRC strategy– Hardware– Hygiene Promotion– O&M Capacity Building

Modality of Operation (CONT.)

CHALLENGES • Lengthy project assessments, design, revision, approval

and start-up processes and procedures.  • The staff turnover rate within the Movement has been

high – not because of overworked delegates but probably underutilized and under worked delegates getting bogged down with some bureaucratic hurdles.

• The experiences of the Tsunami and other recent natural disasters all point to the need to have local branches knowledgeable and active in water and sanitation.

CHALLENGES (CONT.)

• Standards/levels of service to beneficiaries are not consistent.

SUGGESTION SECTION??

• In the true sense of coordination the IFRC should take a lead and assign participating PNS to fill specific needs, especially when there are many PNS in a particular country.