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Our Work in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Agnes Montangero
Director Water & Infrastructure
Who We Are
•Founded in 1955 in Zurich: first private Swiss development NGO•2011 merger with Intercooperation•$136M annual budget•Politically and denominationally neutral•Over 100,000 members and Swiss donors•1,200 staff (17% Swiss & international experts)•US presence since 2012 •Fiscal sponsorship•NICRA, Registered with USAID
• Long country presence (12+ years)• Build the capacity of local partners• Multi stakeholder approach• Cross-cutting themes: gender equality
and social justice• Strong monitoring and evaluation: 11
impact assessments from 2009-2011• Low overhead: 10-15%• Focus on rural and peri-urban areas• South-south collaboration• Implementation - Advisory Services -
Advocacy
Our Programs
Rural Economy Environment & Climate Change
Water & Infrastructure
Skills Development and
Education
Governance and Peace
• Sustainable agriculture systems
• Agriculture extension
• Organic farming & fairtrade
• Value chains
• Citizen engagement & participation
• Political accountability
• Civil peace building & conflict sensitivity
• Artistic expressions for an open society
• South-south labour migration
• Climate protection and conservation of resources (land, water, forests).
• Risk reduction and adaption
• Safe drinking water & sanitation
• Irrigation & efficient use of water
• Bridges, roads & trails for access to ideas, services and markets
• Private-sector & labor market oriented training
• Linkages: basic education & youth skills development
• Mobile trainings
• Life skills• Tracer study
toolkit
Cross-cutting themes: Gender & social equity, capacity development, learning & innovation
Where We Work
32 partner
countries
CRITERIA
•High level of poverty
•High potential for impact
•Government collaboration
•Relevance of our programs
•Civil society or government as partners to collaborate
•Donor interest
Past & Current U.S. Partners• IDB
• US State Department
• USDA
• World Bank & World Bank Institute
• USAID
• CARE
• Chemonics
• Mercy Corps
• RTI
• Winrock
• United Nations
• UNCTAD
• UNDP
• UN Forum on Forests
• UNICEF
• UNIDO
Foundations
•Blue Moon Foundation (renewable energy)
•Ellysium Foundation (Bhutan)
•Ford Foundation (CATIE)
•Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (water study)
•McKnight Foundation (rural economy)
•Open Society Foundations (governance)
NGOs
•Bridges to Prosperity (trail bridges)
•KickStart International (water pumps)
•Rights & Resources Institute (forests/rights)
•Partnership for Transparency Fund
•The Nature Conservancy (forests)
•Women World Banking
•Wildlife Conservation Society
•World Resources Institute
International AssociationsRural Economy
•Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
•DCED
•ICAC
•IFOAM
•FLO (Fairtrade Label Organisation)
•ISEAL
•Textile Exchange
Education
•Centre International d’Etudes Agricoles
Microfinance
•CGAP
•Social Performance Task Force
•Women World Banking
Democracy & Peace
•CIVICUS (World Alliance for Citizen Participation)
•INTRAC (International NGO Training and Research Centre)
Water
•End Water Poverty (UK): Member Executive Committee
•Global Water Challenge
•World Water Council (France
•Water Integrity Network
•Rural Water Supply Network
•WHO – International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage
Roads & Bridges
•International Forum for Rural Transport and Development
Climate Change & Adaptation
•Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) (HSI = lead author)
•International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
•Global Environment Facility (GEF)
•Rights and Resources Initiative
6
Financial
Funds by Program Area %
Rural Economy 35
Water & Infrastructure 27
Skills Development & Education 16
Governance & Peace 15
Environment & Climate 7
Total 100
Use of Funds %
Asia 32.3
Africa 18.7
Latin America 16.9
Eastern Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia
9
Program coordination & support 2.4
Advisory Services 5.1
Swiss programs 3.8
Fair Trade 3.2
Head office 4
Fundraising 4.6
Total 100
Income: Sources %
Swiss Development Corporation 61.0
Private 19.9
Other Official Development Aid 11.0
Advisory Services 4.8
Other 3.3
Total 100
Table of Contents
1. About us
2. HELVETAS’ WASH sector: an overview
In which countries do we work?
What are our key activities?
The WASH team
Partners and networks
3. Strategic orientation
A few lessons learnt
What is our strategic framework?
Safe Water
Sanitation
4. Selected key projects
2. HELVETAS WASH Sector: An Overview
Kyrgyzstan
VietnamLaos
Nepal
Pakistan
Afghanistan
MaliNiger
BeninBurkina Faso Ethiopia
Tanzania
Mosambique
HaïtiGuatemala
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Togo
Senegal
Bhutan
Working area/field # projects Budget 2012 (CHF)
26 13 Mio
3 3 Mio
5 2.5 Mio
11 10 Mio
6 2.5 Mio
WASHWASH
Water for FoodWater for Food
Madagascar
BangladeshHonduras
Governance & PeaceGovernance & Peace
Agriculture & MarketAgriculture & Market
Environment & Climate
Environment & Climate
Water-related projects in other sectors
Safe water (household water treatment, safe storage, hygiene)
Sanitation Drinking water supply Water for food Integrated Water Resource
Management
2. HELVETAS WASH Sector: An Overview
• International: e.g. steering committee EWP (SWA)• Advocacy in Switzerland • Policy development in the countries
Internal & External• Project support (planning, evaluation, technical assistance)• Research & development • Documentation, publications• Impact assessment• Tool development• Training, Knowledge sharing• Development of partnerships• Development of networks and platforms
Short CV Agnes Experience
Key competencies sustainability assessment management models of water and sanitation strategic sanitation planning decentralized sewage treatment institution and capacity building advocacy and policy development
Countries of experience Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, India, Nepal Haiti, Argentina Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova
Since 2010 HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Director Water & Infrastructure
2007-2010 Skat Consulting Water & Sanitation Specialist
2003-2007 Eawag/Sandec Programme Officer Sanitation / PhD student
1998-2003 Eawag/Sandec Project Officer Sanitation
A life without toilet?Unthinkable. Sanitation is a human right!
3. Strategic orientation
A few lessons learnt Investing in empowerment, involving local population including disadvantaged
groups in the planning process increases the level of functionality of water supply schemes (functionality study, Nepal, 2011)
Putting emphasis on understanding the determinants of behavior change helps design more effective behavior change interventions (e.g. use of Eawag RANAS behavior change model)
Behavior change interventions are key in increasing the impact on health of water projects (hygiene, sanitation, safe storage, household water treatment)
Rural sanitation: scaling up is a challenge, rather work at scale from the beginning (piloting at scale approaches)
Improving sanitation in small towns requires specific approaches, which may be different from the ones applied in rural or densely populated urban areas)
Water is a good entry point to improve local governance structures Creating income generating activities (e.g. through multi-use systems providing
drinking and irrigation water) helps communities invest in maintaining and improving/extending their water supply systems
3. Strategic orientation
Safe water (household water treatment, safe storage, hygiene)
Sanitation Drinking water supply Water for food IWRM
3. Strategic orientation
Water supply Sanitation
Safe Water
Treatment Safe Storage
Hygiene
Safe Water Household water treatment (SODIS, filtration,
chlorination, boiling) Safe Storage (during transport and at home) Hygiene Education (personal, household and
environment)
Objectives Increase the health impact of WASH projects
through integration of the Safe Water approach Promote solutions for unserved households (pro-
poor/innovative approaches)
Working principles National partner to facilitate scaling up (Ministry
of Health) Private sector/supply chains (products and
services to reach the poorest, financing mechanisms)
Facilitate behaviour change Partnership with Eawag (SODIS)
3. Strategic orientation
Sanitation Focus on rural areas and small towns
Key principles Creating demand (programmatic approaches such as CLTS) Developing a dynamic private sector (producing affordable latrines,
sanimarts, business skills, competition) Appropriate policies Financing mechanisms (ODF incentives, cross-subsidies, etc.)
Challenges Scaling up rural sanitation CLTS in schools (as part of a broader approach; linking with a
community component for more effective taking up) Post-ODF monitoring and interventions (climbing up the ladder, SWM,
etc.) Sanitation in small towns
4. Selected key projects
Kyrgyzstan
VietnamLaos
Nepal
Pakistan
Afghanistan
MaliNiger
BeninBurkina Faso Ethiopia
Tanzania
Mosambique
HaïtiGuatemala
Nicaragua
Bolivia
Togo
Senegal
Bhutan
Madagascar
BangladeshHonduras
Water & sanitationin fragile states
Clean water andhealthy schools
Rainwaterharvesting
Enhancingparticipation
Water for healthyschools
Blue schools
Improving ruralsanitation
Supporting sanitationentrepreneurs
Equitable use ofwater resources
Improvingtransparency
Improvingrural sanitation
More cropsper drop More crops
per drop
Safe Water
Water and sanitation in fragile states
Improving access to water supply and sanitation in fragile states – the case of Haiti
Improved access to water supply and sanitation Building capacity of the local actors (communities,
water committees, local authorities, private sector, decentralized services)
Improved sector policy
Clean water and healthy schools in Guatemala
Building capacity to better plan and implement water projects and introducing „healthy schools“
Construction of water supply systems, drainage and waste disposal infrastructure, as well as latrines, with the active participation of local people
Capacity building at municipalities and village level officers and water committees for operating and maintaining the infrastructure.
Women’s participation in decision-making is explicitly encouraged
Healthy schools
Rainwater harvesting in EthiopiaRural Roof Water Harvesting Initiative
Tigray region in Northern-Ethiopia characterized by water shortage
Design and test low-cost roof water harvesting systems (ferro-cement cistern with a storage volume of 7.2 m3)
Improving domestic hygiene, skills development and job creation
Blue schools
Enhancing participationEnhancing political participation and improving service provision in Mozambique
The project focuses on enhancing political participation through capacity building of civil society organizations in development planning and linking up to district governmental tiers (demand side).
It facilitates improved public service provision through technical assistance and the provision of sector funding at district level for projects in the area of water & sanitation (supply side).
The project contributes to minimizing conflicts (humans and wildlife) and reduces water-borne diseases such as diarrhea and cholera.
Water for healthy schools and safe births
Transforming wells to improve water quality in schools and health centers (Bénin)
Cleaning, consolidating and closing existing large shallow open wells
Installing small-piped network to school or health centre
Handpump for community Accompanying measures such as
hygiene promotion, handwashing with soap, chlorination (WATA) in health centres
Cleaning and closing existing wells is a cost-effective measure to improve water quality.
Winner 2006 Development Marketplace
Blue schools
Blue schools in Bénin
Sustainable access to safe drinking water,
Sustainable access to sanitation and hygiene,
A school garden as practical place to show relationships between food production and an efficient management of water,
A demonstrative place for watershed and land management practices, wherever it is suitable (depending on the surrounding of the schools).
Benin: lessons learnt on management (pupils, teachers, parents committee), protection of vegetable gardens and reforestation
Ongoing projects in Bénin, Ethiopia and Nicaragua
Improving rural sanitation in Burkina Faso
SaniFaso (Burkina Faso)
Establishing and training water and sanitation commissions in 3 communes (Manni, Thion et Bogandé)
Training 64 village development committees Identification of more than 1500 beneficiaries Supply of sanitation products by local private
sector Supporting the development of communal
development plan (water and sanitation) in Thion Training 30 health agents and 234 community
mobilizers to work in 117 villages More than 600 latrines implemented SaniFaso at AfricaSan - YouTube
Supporting small sanitation entrepreneurs
Said – the latrine man (Mali)
Support to latrine emptying entrepreneur (Bougouni, Mali)
Said the latrine man - YouTube
Equitable use of water resources
Water Use Master Plan (WUMP) An approach to participatory and inclusive planning for integrated water resources management (Nepal)
Identification of available water resources
Identification of water needs Prioritization of water-related
infrastructure Inclusion and empowerment of
disadvantaged groups in the planning process
Planning/prioritizing the use of available water resources (drinking water, irrigation, water for nature and other uses) as a basis for sound investments, conflict prevention and empowerment.
2012 World Water Forum Solution
Ensuring transparency
Public audit practice (Nepal)
Public audit practice consists of three events (Public Hearing, Review, Audit)
Contributes to enhance participation of poor and excluded communities in planning, implementation and monitoring.
“Public audits are very important to ensure transparency. Through these events, the public is aware of the costs of the project. Furthermore, Public Audit Practice prevents any misuse of the funds, as people can control the fund flows. So it strengthens the relationship and trust between the Water and Sanitation User Committee and the users.”
ALINe Farmers Voice Award 2010
How latrines became a status symbol
Promoting the development of ODF communities in Nepal
Training of latrine builders (including people from disadvantaged social groups)
Villages where at least 50% of households already have a latrine can apply for other small projects for farm irrigation, drinking water supply or catchment protection.
The programme supported three VDCs to declare ODF in the first half of 2012
„We’ve long wanted a latrine. It’s not good to go in the jungle. It’s difficult because of the snakes. And as a woman I’m scared when I have to go out in the open to relieve myself. I finally had enough money for the low cost latrine.“
Efficient small-scale irrigation systems
Prospects towards prosperity with farmer managed irrigation systems in Nepal
Construction and rehabilitation of farmer managed irrigation schemes
Increased annual income of approx. $ 500 per hectare.
By the end of December 2011, a total of 230 Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems have been completed, irrigating 1,800 hectares and benefiting 11,500 households of which 60% belong to disadvantaged groups.
Factsheet
Food Security: Every Drop counts
Safe Water
Using sunlight to purify water in Vietnam
HELVETAS has introduced the SODIS water disinfection method in Vietnam
A simple and scientifically proven technique for disinfecting drinking water at home
Contaminated water is put in transparent PET or glass bottles, which are then left in the sun for at least six hours. During this time, UV radiation from the sun kills the germs in the water
HELVETAS offers training and assistance to local people to raise awareness about this simple and efficient method
Efficient small-scale irrigation systemsSaving water through drip irrigation in Kyrgizstan
HELVETAS strengthens and trains local organizations, cooperatives and private companies involved in agricultural extension
Men and women farmers learn on demonstration plots how to use short furrows to spread water more equally and thus save water; or how they can distribute a defined quantity of water directly to the plant by means of a perforated plastic tube.
Thanks to this simple drip irrigation method, farmers use two to three times less water, but harvest up to three times more crops. This is very important in a region where vegetables are scarce.
Swiss Water & Sanitation NGO Consortium
Swiss NGOs join hands to contribute to solving the water and sanitation crisis
Drinking water supply, sanitation, hygiene and small-scale irrigation
16 million CHF (2011-2013) 27 projects in 16 countries 3 regional hubs: technical assistance
and knowledge sharing Pooling resources and know how,
stronger voice
Swiss Water Partnership
A new platform of Swiss water organisations from academia, civil society, public and private sector
The Swiss Water Partnership intends to:
Exchange information and promote networking between its members
Advance the discussion of important international water policy issues
Draw together the substantial and diverse range of Swiss experience and knowledge in water issues into a single voice
Promote the Swiss water perspective and expertise in international conferences and networks
Thank you!