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DRAFTThe country overviews will serve as a baseline to track progress against sanitation MDGtargets – not only in terms of tracking coverage but also in terms of tracking theimprovement and strengthening of the political and institutional environment that willenable the sanitation programs to scale up and be sustainable. Key examples of thisinclude the preparation of country status overviews for sanitation for about 30 countriesin Africa, about 14 of the poorest (and lowest sanitation coverage) countries in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean. WSP sill support regional processes in the Mekong basin tohelp countries compare lessons learned and support each other for action and tobenchmark progress. Similar analyses to support local stakeholders to mobilize for actionin sanitation and hygiene will be supported at the municipal level in Indonesia and thePhilippines. In South Asia, WSP will continue to provide policy advisory support togovernments on formulating sanitation outcome-focused policies and strategies to gainpolitical and institutional priority.o Encourage demand-driven, sustainable solutions: WSP will provide direct technicalguidance and in some cases channel financial support to governments that areimplementing sanitation programs that use demand-based approaches such as totalsanitation and sanitation marketing to reach rural and urban poor populations with accessto improved sanitation. Key examples include the Scaling Up Total Sanitation/SanitationMarketing project in Tanzania, India and Indonesia; Sanitation marketing programs inBenin, Kenya, Cambodia, Peru; and Total Sanitation programs in Bangladesh andPakistan.o Secure increased financing: By virtue of its special relationship with the World Bankand WSP Council members who are donors in the sector, as well as solid workingrelationships with regional development banks such as the African Development Bank(where WSP now has an office) and the Asian Development Bank, WSP will play animportant advocacy and facilitator role in assisting government to get access to increasedfinancing for increasing sanitation access for the rural and urban poor. In addition, WSPwill be part of project preparation teams with the World Bank, the Africa DevelopmentBank and other donor partners to provide sanitation specific expertise to assist in thedesign and preparation of projects to insure that they are designed in such a way as toaddress sanitation and effectively reach the rural and urban poor. An important objectiveof WSP in these interventions will be to promote a balance between the focus on waterand sanitation to ensure that sanitation and hygiene are not left behind. WSP will supportthe design and implementation of the sanitation components in water and sanitationprojects in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Niger, Benin, Indonesia, Malawi, Zambia andTanzania, among others. WSP will also be providing technical expertise to AfricaDevelopment Bank task team leaders in preparing sanitation projects that will result inincreasing sanitation access for rural populations and will likely be part of future projectpreparation teamso Develop and promote policies and strategies: The focus of WSP activities in thesanitation and hygiene sector is on change of outcomes rather than on provision ofinfrastructure. The focus of the Total Sanitation programs is on achieving opendefecation free status by villages. The core of Sanitation Marketing is to support the12
DRAFTdevelopment of a vibrant local market that provides sanitation solutions that are desiredand maintained by households. Many of these programs are rapidly evolving to includehandwashing and hygiene to ensure even greater gains on health and socio-economicoutcomes. Key examples include the implementation with partners of the Scaling UpHandwashing with soap project in Vietnam, Tanzania, Senegal and Peru; the East AfricaHandwashing Initiative in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda; and coordination of thesecretariat of the global Public-Private-Partnership for Handwashing ( PPPHW)o Develop and strengthen institutional and human capacity: Capacity building is one ofWSP’s core mandates and this is reflected in the WSP IYS Action plan. Capacitybuilding by WSP will address a wide range of audiences and skill areas. Audiences willinclude national and local government policy and decision makers, public sectorinstitutional employees, utility staff, NGO staff and CBO members, technical specialistsand, journalists. WSP support to capacity building is focused on areas that go beyondclassroom training, and focus on:o Prioritizing and working in a way that ensures ownership by Government(especially at the local level where implementation takes place).o Providing facilitation and support to Government (local and central) to takeaction, rather than 'doing it all' through consultants employed to undertake thework.o Strengthening the use of practical 'on-the-job' approaches and active fieldexchange approaches that not only build capacity, but also ownership, politicalcommitment, and interdepartmental relationships.o Building the capacity of providers of sanitation infrastructure, goods, andservices to respond to increased demand is critical, and part of the sanitationmarketing approach.o Influencing the curricula of training courses by institutes and universities tobring state-of-the-art lessons to sector professionals.o Supporting networks of professionals and water utility/operators partnershipsto disseminate lessons learned through capacity building programs.o Using global connectivity to bring capacity building programs that promoteSouth-South cooperation and learning;Key examples include capacity building and training to be provided in Community LedTotal Sanitation approaches for state and district officials and implementing agencies inSouth Asia and South-East Asia; training programs for health and marketing specialistsfrom around the world in the “University of Handwashing” to learn how to set up largescale Handwashing programs; organizing and implementing “road shows” for nationaland state policy makers and city managers in India and; national and regional capacitybuilding on hygiene and sanitation in India. In East Asia through the Sanitation andWater Partnership for the Mekong Region (SAWAP), WSP is facilitating capacitybuilding through a range of government led initiatives and intra-regional learning. In thePhilippines, WSP will support the establishment of Centers of Excellence for sustainablesanitation to strengthen and develop the capacity of workers and professionals onsanitation. In Peru, WSP is involved in a capacity-building working group with theGovernment of Peru, helping to assess training capacity that exist in the country and the13
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