IASC Global WASH Cluster

Right to water and sanitation in emergencies project

Clarissa BrocklehurstChief of WASH New York

Julie Aubriot Right to water Research OfficerACF – Paris

reformHUMANITARIAN

“Well-known, long-standing gaps”

“Limited linkages” between UN and non-UN actors

Coordination erratic and dependent on personalities

Insufficient accountability

2005 Humanitarian Response Review2005 Humanitarian Response Review

Building a Stronger, More Predictable Building a Stronger, More Predictable Humanitarian Response SystemHumanitarian Response System

reformHUMANITARIAN

THREE PILLARS OF REFORMTHREE PILLARS OF REFORMAND THE FOUNDATIONAND 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

Cluster Approach: AimsCluster Approach: Aims

• predictability, accountability and partnership in all sectors

• more strategic responses

• better prioritization of available resources

• clarifying the division of labour among organisations

Country LevelImproving the effectiveness of humanitarian response

The Global WASH Cluster: who is in it?The Global WASH Cluster: who is in it?

NGOs ACF, CARE, Concern, CRS, IRC, Mercy Corps, NCA, Oxfam, RedR, Tearfund, IR,WVI

Red C/C IFRC, ICRC

UN UNICEF, WHO, UNEP, UNHCR,UNRWA,

OCHA

Consortia InterAction, schr, ICVA

Institutions CDC

Donors OFDA, DFID, ECHO

The active Global Cluster The active Global Cluster Working Group Working Group Participants:Participants:

Global WASH ClusterGlobal WASH Cluster

5 STRATEGIC AREAS5 STRATEGIC AREAS

1.1. Coordination and Coordination and AdvocacyAdvocacy2.2. Information ManagementInformation Management3.3. Capacity BuildingCapacity Building4.4. PreparednessPreparedness

5.5.Best Practice, Learning and Best Practice, Learning and AccountabilityAccountability

RESPONSE AREASRESPONSE AREAS

• Hygiene promotionHygiene promotion• Water SupplyWater Supply• Excreta Disposal Excreta Disposal • Vector ControlVector Control• Solid Waste Management Solid Waste Management • DrainageDrainage

  Right to water and Right to water and sanitation in sanitation in

emergencies  emergencies 

AA WASH Global Cluster projectWASH Global Cluster project

Why?Why?

“To improve the knowledge and effective use of the concept of the RTWS of all stakeholders

involved in emergencies and to enable them to build up rights-based advocacy activities”.

Outputs and ActivitiesOutputs and Activities

• December 2007/April 2009• 3 main outputs:

– Handbook: « Right to Water and Sanitation in Emergencies. An advocacy tool ».

– Self-training tool (final version will be available in March/April 2009)

– 6 Regional workshops (January to March 2009): Amman, Nairobi, Bobo Dioulasso, Bangkok and Geneva (Developed with the support of the REWASs (financial, logistic, etc. support)

Focus on the regional Focus on the regional workshopsworkshops

- We received more than 400 applications = shows a big interest on the issue- We selected 115 participants coming from about 40 countries- We paid attention to have a huge diversity of profiles (Advocacy; Human rights; Emergency relief issues; WASH related issues)- 25 participants/workshops

Profiles of Profiles of participantsparticipants

Different Different types of types of

organizations organizations

- 2 days workshops

- Day 1: Definition of the RTWS // Objective: to allow participants to fully understand the meaning of the RTWS- The scope and limitations of the RTWS (focus on GC N°15)- The provisions of International Humanitarian Law related to

W&S- Links with Sphere, protection activities and emergency-related

tools

- Day 2: How to use the RTWS as an advocacy tool?

Content of the workshopsContent of the workshops

• Few organizations work on the HRTWS as such• Globally, the HRTWS/ basically, the GC 15 is really not well known

among practitioners• Very good to have a mixture of profiles: challenge is to find a common

language • This mixture among teams is maybe a important point if we want see

good practices emerging; • Still in a awareness building phase and still a huge work of definition to

do• We have succeeded in demonstrating that the RTWS could be a good

advocacy tool (but not a magic solution!)• Still difficult to see how to integrate this approach in organizations ///

Trendy subject?

Conclusion and findingsConclusion and findings

For participants:• 1) Feedback to their own colleagues, institutions, etc. –

local level; • 2) Continue the networking;• 3) Interact with States, authorities to see how to integrate

the HRTW in policies, laws, etc.• 4) Cluster at the national level can be a good opportunity to

continue this awareness building work /// regional approach to local approach in context where it is relevant

For us, as organizations working on the RTWS:• Awareness buidling/training to be continued

Next stepsNext steps