The Water and Sanitation Program - Environmental Health at USAID

DRAFTbest way they could respond to the demand; and developing specific training curriculumwith local Universities on WSS in rural areas.o Promote and capture learning: WSP has a long and well received history of producinghigh quality advocacy documents and field notes describing interesting projects, andmore recently is focusing on bringing the best global knowledge on impact evaluationand evidence-based analysis to strengthen our advocacy and technical guidance efforts insanitation and hygiene. Key examples of global work that WSP will undertake for theIYS include a global study on sanitation financing practices at the project and programlevel that will look at experiences with sanitation subsidies, financial incentives forcommunity based sanitation results, etc. A second global study will be looking at thepolitical economy of sanitation that seeks to better understand vested interest that eitherconstrain or promote appropriate investments in sanitation to reach the rural and urbanpoor. A third study will be an East Asia multi-country regional study on the economicimpact of not having adequate sanitation and the economic benefits of sanitationimprovement (Economics of Sanitation Initiative).WSP will also be publishing and disseminating a wide variety of sanitation relateddocuments including technical guides, videos, advocacy documents, case studies, fieldnotes, etc. Examples of specific publications and other media planned for next yearinclude, among many others: a South Asia regional guidebook on community led totalsanitation for policymakers and practitioners; a Handwashing Program Operations Guide;a technical and advocacy document on condominial sewerage systems withdocumentation of experiences from Brazil and the Andean region; a guide on constructedwetlands for wastewater treatment; an “Accessing Sanitation” Video Game with theSerious Games Initiative; a compilation film of all previously produced WSP films onsanitation; and training modules of the Philippines Sanitation Sourcebook.• Implementation of Sanitation Roadmaps. It is expected that by the 2012, an increasednumber of countries will be on track to achieve the sanitation MDG target by 2015, or if noton track, that they will have clearly spelt out national and local policies that will provide anorientation and implementation plan. WSP will have at that time supported all focuscountries of intervention in establishing and implementing MDG Roadmaps for sanitation. Itis also expected that this technical assistance will be shared with new countries such asFragile States.These roadmaps will make an emphasis on scaling up strategies, using existing successfulexperiences, as the ones enumerated in the previous section, and providing assistance on thedesign of sector financing strategies together with World Bank Operations Departments, orother donors following the principles of harmonization of the Paris Declaration. In addition,these roadmaps are not only planning instruments to be developed at national level; WSP willalso be able to provide technical assistance at local level, facilitating the process ofintegrating sanitation development for the urban poor in urban planning. Financing strategieswill also deal with the development of sanitation markets where the private sector, includingfinancial institutions could be involved in both direct contributions and micro-creditfinancing, using the experience of pilot experiences currently being documented.14