IASC Global WASH Cluster

IASC Global WASH
Cluster
High Level Experts Panel/UNSGAB
Seoul 28 th Jan 2008
Professor Paul Sherlock OBE
Global WASH Cluster Lead
The Humanitarian Reform Agenda:
Building a Stronger, More Predictable
Humanitarian Response System
Humanitarian Reform Support Unit, OCHA

eform
HUMANITARIAN
Changing Environment for humanitarian operations
• Proliferation of humanitarian actors
• Changing role of the UN (less direct
implementation, more standard-setting and
facilitation)
• Competitive funding environment
• Increased public scrutiny of humanitarian action
reform
HUMANITARIAN
Some Findings from the
2005 Humanitarian Response Review
• “Well-known, long-standing gaps”
• “Limited linkages” between UN and non-UN actors
• Coordination erratic and dependent on personalities
• Insufficient accountability (particularly for IDPs)
• Donor policies inconsistent

Objectives of Humanitarian Reform
1. Sufficient humanitarian response
capacity and enhanced leadership,
accountability and predictability in 9
“gap” sectors/areas of response
2. Adequate, timely and flexible
humanitarian financing
3. Improved humanitarian coordination
and leadership
4. More effective partnerships between
UN and non-UN humanitarian actors
reform
HUMANITARIAN
THREE PILLARS OF REFORM
AND THE FOUNDATION
CLUSTER APPROACH
Adequate capacity and
predictable leadership in all
sectors
HUMANITARIAN
COORDINATORS
Effective leadership and
coordination in
humanitarian emergencies
HUMANITARIAN
FINANCING
Adequate, timely and
flexible financing
PARTNERSHIP
Strong partnerships between UN and non-UN actors

eform
HUMANITARIAN
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Full Members and Standing Invitees
Whose reform
Full Members
Food and Agricultural
Organisation (FAO)
Standing Invitees
International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC)
Office for the Coordination of
International Council of Voluntary
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Agencies (ICVA)
Inter-Agency Standing
Committee (IASC)
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA)
International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent
Societies (IFRC)
American Council for Voluntary
International Action (InterAction)
United Nations High Comissioner
Composed of NGO consortia, Red
Cross and Red Crescent Movement,
IOM, World bank and UN agencies
for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF)
World Food Programme (WFP)
International Organisation for
Migration (IOM)
Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Office of the Special
Representative of the Secretary
General on the Human Rights of
Internally Displaced Persons
World Health Organisation
(WHO)
(RSG on HR of IDPs)
Steering Committee for
Humanitarian Response (SCHR)
World Bank (World Bank)
reform
HUMANITARIAN
Global Capacity-Building
Cluster/Sector Working Group
1. Agriculture
2. Camp Coordination & Camp Mgmt
3. Early Recovery
4. Education
5. Emergency Shelter
6. Emergency Telecomms
7. Health
8. Logistics
9. Nutrition
10. Protection
11. Water, Sanitation & Hygiene
Global Cluster Leads
FAO
UNHCR & IOM
UNDP
UNICEF & Save the Children
UNHCR & IFRC (Convenor)
OCHA (UNICEF & WFP)
WHO
WFP
UNICEF
UNHCR
UNICEF

The IASC WASH Cluster
Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene
To ensure:-
Global Level Responsibility
• System-wide preparedness
• Technical Capacity
• ensuring greater predictability and
effective inter-agency responses for the
WASH sector

Country-Level Responsibility
• strengthen humanitarian response by demanding high
standards of predictability, accountability and partnership
in the WASH Sector
• more strategic responses and better prioritisation of
available resources; clarifying the division of labour
among organisations
• providing the Humanitarian Co-ordinator with both a first
point of call and a provider of last resort
• Generic ToR for Country Level Cluster Leads
Global WASH Cluster Partners
NGOs
Red Cross
UN
Consortiums
Inst.
Donors
ACF, Oxfam, IRC, WVI, CRS,
Concern, CARE, NCA, Red R
ICMH, IMC MC. Tearfund IR
IFRC, ICRC
UNICEF, WHO, UNEP,
UNHCR, OCHA
SCHR, InterAction,
CDC
OFDA, DFID, ECHO.

GLOBAL WATER, SANITATION HYGIENE (WASH) CLUSTER
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK — 2007/8
WASH Cluster Goal:
Improve the predictability, timeliness and effectiveness of comprehensive
WASH response to humanitarian crises
WASH WASH STRATEGIC WASH STRATEGIC WASH STRATEGIC WASH STRATEGIC
STRATEGIC Area Area 2 Area 3 Area 4 Area 5
1 Effective and Efficient WASH Sector Capacity WASH Sector WASH Sector Best
Effective WASH Information Management for Humanitarian Preparedness Practice and Learning
Sector and Standards Policy Response
OUTPUTS OUTPUTS OUTPUTS OUTPUTS OUTPUTS
1. Cluster coordinators 1. Standardised assessment, 1. Hygiene promotion- 1. Global and national A. Best Practice:
identified, assessed and gap analysis and coherence, tools, capacity mapping 1. Production and dissemination of
trained and roster of monitoring tools (PROJ 2) guidance, training, frameworks (PROJ 4) WASH publication of existing
potential country-level 2. Production, training and resources and mentors 2. Global WASH equipment
cross-cutting guidance (e.g
coordinators established dissemination of (PROJ 3) stockpile (PROJ 5)
gender, sexual violence, mental
(PROJ 1)
health, HIV/AIDS etc)
information management 2. Training for capacity 3. WASH cluster awareness
2. Cluster coordination and toolkit (PROJ 2) building- needs 2. Guidance and tools for
workshops (NEW 07/08)
tools for advocacy and
accountability in WASH
3. Standards policy guidance assessment development
resource mobilisation
4. Interagency WASH programming
(NEW 07/08)
and roll out (PROJ 6)
(PROJ 8)
preparedness and
3. Checklists, guidance & best
3. WASH cluster agencies
3. Resources for initial
contingency planning
practice for environment &
specific internal capacity
cluster coordination cell
(NEW 07/08)
WASH: solid waste management,
building (NEW 07/08)
mobilised (NEW 07/08)
coordinators training and
4. Technical support agencies
4. environment advisor
Evidence based high
level advocacy paper on
for WASH response (NEW
4. WASH component of HIV/AIDS
integrated WASH
07/08) emergency guidance
programming (NEW
5. Best practices and guidance for
07/08) special need groups in WASH
5. Rapid needs assessment
programming
team (NEW 07/08) (ALL NEW 07/08)
6. Dedicated global cluster
advocacy and support B. Learning: (PROJ 7
team and regular global 6. WASH cluster field
meetings (CAST)
implementation reviews and
global level evaluations
1. WASH Cluster/Sector Coordination
1.1 Global Cluster Advocacy & Support Team
1.2 Training & Roster of country-level Co-ordinators …
1.3 Resources for Initial Cluster Co-ordinator Cell **
1.4 Rapid Needs Assessment Team *
1.5 Advocacy & Resource Mobilisation – Tools and
Guidance for Clusters and Cluster Co-ordinators

2. Information Management
2.1 Systems and Tools
- Rapid Needs Assessment
- Detailed Needs Assessment
- Who What Where in WASH
- Gap Analysis
- Monitoring (Benchmarks and Indicators)
- Mapping needs
(Done in co-ordination with OCHA and other clusters)
3. WASH Cluster/Sector Capacity for
Humanitarian Response
3.1 Hygiene Promotion – coherence, tools, guidance,
training, resources, mentors ,
3.2 Training for Capacity Building – Development and rollout
3.3 Standby Arrangements for accessing Technical
Expertise
3.4 Agency specific capacity building in WASH
3.5 Technical Support Services.

4. WASH Cluster/Sector
Preparedness
4.1 Global & National Capacity Mapping
Frameworks
4.2 WASH Cluster Awareness Workshops
4.3 Interagency Preparedness & Contingency
Planning
4.4 Global WASH Stockpile
5. Best Practice and Learning
5.1 Learning – Reviews of WASH cluster implementation
5.2 Cross Cutting Issues Publication for WASH
5.3 Environment –guidance, tools, Field Advisory Support
5.4 Early Recovery - guidance, tools
5.5 Disaster Risk Reduction - guidance, tools
5.6 Accountability in WASH Programming - guidance, tools
5.7 Vulnerable Groups and WASH Programming - guidance,
tools (children, older people, disabled)

GLOBAL WATER, SANITATION HYGIENE (WASH)
CLUSTER SUPPORT, RESOURCES AND
SERVICES
Access to
cluster
coordinator
Roster
(+resources)
Global
Contact with Roll out WASH
global WASH WASH Hygiene cluster
organisations cluster Promotion awareness
Set-up Cluster
tools
workshops
support
Support
to the
Field
FOR RESPONSE FOR PREPAREDNESS
Sector
Capacity
Building
Training
Use of Website WASH Sector
website for Resources
Capacity Roll out
cluster in Mapping Information
the field Framework Management
tools
Tools and Services
Information Management Best Practice + Guidance Resources + Services
1. Rapid Needs Assessment 1. Disaster Risk Reduction Guidance Note 1. Website
2. Detailed Need Assessment 2. Early Recovery Guidance Note (www.humanitrianreform.org)
3. Who What Where tools 3. Solid Waste Management Guidance Note 2. Sphere project handbook
4. Gap Analysis Tool 4. Environment Guidance Note 3. Technical Support Services
5. Monitoring Tools 5. Accountability in WASH programming 4. Environmental Advisors (field)
6. Mapping Capacity 6. Vulnerability and WASH response 5. Groundwater Specialists
(elderly, children, disabled)
6. Cluster Coordination Training and
7. Mainstreaming Cross-cutting Issues Mentoring
(gender, HIV/AIDS, environment etc)
7.WASH Sector Training
8.Global Stockpiling
9.Advocacy&Resorce
Mobilisation
Implementation -
The Working Group Approach
• Different agencies have specific strengths which have
huge value and contribution to make in developing the
sector globally – there is a desire to harness these
strengths for the sector as a whole
• The strengths of all different agencies together are much
greater than the capacity of any one agency
• Cluster lead has responsibilities and accountabilities –
but these can only be achieved by working together
• Implementation supported by the Cluster Support Team
– ensuring it happens

Linking with Other Clusters
• Camp Co-ordination and Camp Management –
Developing MoU on roles of each cluster in camps
• Shelter – NFI responsibility; ensuring WASH facilities
integrated into shelter in emergencies/recovery
• Developing MoU with UNHCR for Refugee Situations
• Nutrition & Health – potentially on inter-sectoral needs
assessment.
• Meeting of Cluster leads for Health, Nutrition, WASH
…Planned joint meeting 2007
New Global WASH Cluster
Workplan 2007
• Continue the implementation of projects defined in 2006
• Roll out of the products of the projects
• New suggestions
– Permanent response team
– National staff training focus
– Real time evaluations
– Disaster Risk Reduction
– Guidance on cross cutting issues
– Increase advocacy role of cluster support team
– Increased inter-cluster co-ordination
– Emergency Waste Management Guidelines
– Internal agency capacity building

Thank you