wash sustainability charter: collaborating for best practices
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WASH Sustainability Charter:Collaborating for Best Practices
www.WASHcharter.org
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Coalition of corporations, NGOs and other stakeholders committed to achieving universal access to WASH. Members include:
o Corporations: Cargill, Dow, Ford, Kimberly-Clark, Merck, The Coca-Cola Companyo Leading NGOs: WaterAid, Water For People, Water.org, CARE, CRS, etc.o Foundations: Wallace Genetic Foundation, Case Foundation
Accelerating the delivery of WASH through partnerships that catalyze financial support and drive innovation for sustainable solutions:
o WASH in Schools: SWASH+, Mexico Schools Program, Support My School, A-WASHo Women for Watero Ashoka Changemakers
GWC catalyzes high impact partnerships bringing new donors to the sector to fund innovative and sustainable WASH programs.
Global Water Challenge (GWC)
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• Why water?
• What types of projects?
• What types of organizations?
• What is “Sustainability”?
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)
Background on the WASH Sector
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If every hand pump installed in Africa in the past 20 years still worked, nearly 70 MM more people would have access to water.
Changing Today, For Tomorrow
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Sustainability Eludes WASH Sector• Over 50 percent of all water projects fail,
less than 5% of projects are visited after project completion, and far less than 1% have any longer-term monitoring. (1)
• Over the last 20 years, over 180,000 hand pumps installed in Sub-Saharan Africa have failed pre maturely, representing a total failed investment of between $1.2 and $1.5 billion (2)
• Weak data hides the true scope of the crisis. In one study in Mozambique, the government reported that 72% of the population had water access. Data showed actual coverage of 21%, with the discrepancy caused by water point failure. (3)
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1. Water.org. http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/ 2. The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. http://www.irc.nl/page/483983. Water For People. http://support.waterforpeople.org/site/DocServer/Breslin-Rethinking-hydrophilanthropy-012910-web.pdf?docID=1521
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• Open-source
• Brought to life by endorsers
• Value-add for all
• Agreed upon best practices
• Strengthened by broad endorsement
“To collaboratively promote the delivery of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services that produce high-quality, lasting benefits to
consumers.”
WASH Sustainability Charter
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GWC WASH Sustainability ForumObjectives:• Bring donors and implementers
into the sustainability conversation• Identify best practices of
sustainability• Build consensus around elements
of sustainability and establish charter of principles
Participants• 96 participants• 50 public institutions, private
sector leaders, and NGOs represented
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Outcome of the January 2011 WASH Sustainability Forum• Nearly 100 people• Over 50 organizations
Compiled with the support of Deloitte • With guidance from participants at the Forum
Draft was shared for public feedback• Feedback submitted from throughout the
sector
Final version was released• Launched on www.WASHCharter.org• Notable media coverage
Over 100 Endorsers•And counting…
The WASH Sustainability Process
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Global Water Challenge (GWC)Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF)
H20 For LifeHazara Development & Advocacy Foundation (HADAF)
Helping Hand For Relief & Development Improve International
International Development Enterprise, Cambodia
Karnali Integrate Rural Development & Research Center (KIRDARC)
Kenya Community Health NetworkLiquid Water, Inc
Living Water InternationalMillennium Water Alliance (MWA)
Nakuru Defluoridation Company, Ltd.Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH)
PortapureProject WET
Pueblo a PuebloPure Water for the World, Inc.
Rising Star OutreachSafe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP)
Sark FoundationSave the Children, USA
Serving Humanity through Empowerment and Development (SHED), Inc.
Sindhica Reforms Society PakistanSolarsido
South African Toilet Organisation (SATO)Sustainable Environment Development Initiative
Sustainable Sanitation DesignTaakulo Somaliland Community (WASCO)
Tearfundtippytap.org
Triple-S – IRC International Water andSanitation Center
UdyamaUGoS
United Force for Development (UFFD)Upez African Humanitarian Development Project (UAHDP)
Village ScienceWASH Advocacy Initiative
Water 1st InternationalWaterAid
Water and Sanitation Program (WSP)Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action Group (WASRAG)
Water Services Trust Fund (WSTF), KenyaWater Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC)
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)Water For People
Wellman WaterworksWelthungerhilfe
Women Collaborative Development Foundation, Ghana
World Vision
a child’s rightAfricare
AguaconsultAgua Para La Vida
An Organization for Socio-Economic Development (AOSED)
The Aquaya InstituteBehrhorst Partners for Development
BIOBOX MoçambiqueBlue Planet Network
CARECatholic Relief Services
Centre for Community Health Research (CCHR)
Climbing for WaterCLLEEN Water and Power
Community Based Total Sanitation (STBM Indonesia)
Community Water SolutionsConrad N. Hilton Foundation
Cowater InternationalCREPA-African Center for WASH
El PorvenirEngineers Without Borders AustraliaEngineers Without Borders Canada
FairWaterFantsuam Foundation
Ghana Young Artisans MovementGramalaya
Guarantee Environment on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (GEOWASH)
Endorsers
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The WASH Sustainability Charter
Framework | Roadmap | Checklist | Conversation Starter | Commitment
1. Strategy and Planning2. Governance and Accountability3. Service Delivery Support4. Financial Management5. Reporting and Knowledge Sharing
5 areas16 principles
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Strategy and Planning• Consider solutions that are equitable, environmentally-friendly, and well-
suited to the specific needs and long-term operations and maintenance capabilities of the local community.
• Align planning efforts with other stakeholders, including development organizations and national/local governments.
• Meaningfully include consumers and other stakeholders throughout the planning and budgeting processes.
• Assess full life-cycle risks during planning and develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
• Consider the long-term education, capacity-building, and training needs of stakeholders.
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Governance and Accountability• Clearly articulate and document roles, responsibilities,
commitments, and expectations of all stakeholders while recognizing the central role of women in WASH solutions.
• Promote and deliver programs where all stakeholders are accountable to each other and operate in a transparent manner.
• Evaluate the capabilities and capacity of the consumers, community, and service providers when determining their roles in ongoing service delivery.
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Service Delivery Support• Develop and promote a local operational infrastructure
(e.g. replacement parts, curriculum, maintenance capability, supplier network, etc.) that enables long-term service delivery.
• Prepare the consumers and/or other stakeholders to take responsibility for the service delivery support processes.
• Establish mechanisms to educate stakeholders and to ensure that education transmission is sustained over time.
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Financial Management• Utilize financial resources for their intended purposes,
as agreed-upon by all stakeholders, throughout the service delivery life-cycle.
• Establish a long-term financing plan that realistically accounts for all phases of the service delivery life-cycle.
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Reporting and Knowledge Sharing
• Utilize appropriate and consistent metrics, evaluation criteria, and tools to monitor and measure performance relative to long-term service delivery throughout the solution life-cycle (including post-implementation phases).
• Share data and lessons learned – both from failures and successes – in order to provide continuous improvement throughout the sector.
• Adopt and use consistent financial and operational reporting frameworks.
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• Provides opportunity for consistency • Leverages and unites initiatives• Charter is aligned with:
– Triple-S– Sanitation and Water for All– Collaborative Monitoring– WASH Advocates, Global Water Challenge– Water Person Years
Aligning Diverse Initiatives
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• Publicly signals commitment• Provides commonly agreed upon guidance• Aligns individual approach with sector-wide conversation
• Delivers competitive advantage• Strengthens communications • Offers clear benchmarks for sustainability
Benefits of the Charter
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• Webinar Series• Survey and Report• SustainableWASH.org• WASH Sustainability
Process • Endorse • Assess• Improve
From a Document to a Movement
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• Start talking with your peers to “build buzz”
• Don’t worry about the details• Start small, both in size and scope• Find the specific need to address• Engage peers throughout the process
Lessons for Other Sectors
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More Information
www.SustainableWASH.org
www.WASHCharter.org