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Meeting the Millennium Development Goals for water supply and sanitation: What will it take? Jennifer Davis Department of Urban Studies & Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology I. What are the Millennium Development Goals? II. How ambitious (realistic) are the goals? III. What is the UN’s plan for achieving the MDGs? IV. Can the goals be met? What are the obstacles and how can we tackle them? V. Questions and discussion

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Meeting the Millennium Development Goalsfor water supply and sanitation: 

What will it take?Jennifer Davis

Department of Urban Studies & PlanningMassachusetts Institute of Technology

I. What are the Millennium Development Goals?II. How ambitious (realistic) are the goals?III. What is the UN’s plan for achieving the MDGs?IV. Can the goals be met? What are the obstacles and 

how can we tackle them?V. Questions and discussion

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I. What are theMillennium Development Goals?

Set of semi‐quantified, time‐bound development targetsPresented at the UN Millennium Summit (2000)Revised at Johannesburg WSSD (2002)Endorsed by all 191 UN membersCommanding substantial attention among donors, developing countries, and development professionals

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The Millennium Development Goalswww.un.org/millenniumgoals

Goal 1:  Eradicate extreme poverty & hungerGoal 2: Achieve universal primary education Goal 3: Promote gender equality & empower women Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Goal 5: Improve maternal health Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainabilityGoal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, & other diseases Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development

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Goal #7: Ensure environmental sustainabilityTarget 10 (with WSSD revision): “Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation.”

Baseline is 1990 Although expressed as a global goal, Target 10 has been operationalized as a national goal applicable to both urban and rural areas.

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Progress toward W&S targets willfoster progress in other areas

Girls’ school attendance is an average of 15% higher in communities with W&S services at school in Bangladesh

Presence of sewers in urban Nicaragua associated with a 55% reduction in the under‐5 mortality rate

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II. How ambitious are these goals?

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Data sources: Gleick 1993, IFPRI 2003, WHO 2003

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Breaking through the 1 billion mark

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III. What is the UN’s strategy for achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

Task Force 7:Millennium Project:10 Task Forces + IAPAnalysis & support

1) Understand the characteristics of communities with low W&S coverage

2) Identify bottlenecks to expanding access

3) Suggest concrete strategies to deal with constraints

Millennium Campaign:UN‐organized teamsAdvocacy & fundraising

Millennium Reports:UN + country teamsMonitoring & reporting

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IV. What are the obstacles to expanding coverage, and how can we address them?

Quantity of spendingQuality of spendingLack of accountability between service providers and customersWeak/absent institutions to facilitate collective action among the unservedLow priority for sanitation in planning, policy development, and funding

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Quantity of spendingCurrent investment in developing‐country W&S sector is ~US$13b/yr.More than 85% of this amount is invested in water supplyEstimated annual incremental investment for meeting MDGs ~US$5‐10 b./year*

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TF7 Key principle #1:

There must be a deliberate commitment by donors both to refocus their development assistance and to target sufficient aid to the 

least developed countries.

There must be a deliberate commitment by governments of middle‐income countries that 

are not aid‐dependent to reallocate their 

resources such that they target funding to the unserved poor.

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Case example: Republic of South Africa

During the period 1996‐2002, RSA dramatically increased budget allocations to the W&S sector, averaging more than US$120m per yearCoverage expanded from 62% in 1994 to 86% by 2000

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Quality of spendingSystems are often over‐designed relative to demand or to capacity for operationSustainability is jeopardized

From sub‐national to international levels, incentives favor new construction over O&M (not only a developing country phenomenon)

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TF7 key principle #2:Efforts to reach Target 10 must focus on sustainable service delivery, rather than construction of facilities alone.

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Case example: Azad & Jammu Kashmir, Pakistan

Overseers in rural water supply project given ‘portfolios’ of projects that they follow from design to O&MIncentive for the design and quality construction of systems that communities can maintain

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Lack of accountability between service providers and households

In many public agencies, staff face no consequence either for outstanding or for poor performance.

Frequency of kickbacks from contractors to W&S institution

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"Every time""Quite common""Half the time""Occasionally""Rarely/Never"

Political interference in service delivery, along with rent‐seeking, erode both staff morale and public confidence

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Few institutions to facilitate collective action are located where the unserved actually live

Access to W&S services is positively associated with income, political influence, & access to institutions

Many urban poor and rural residents have few avenues to express demands for service

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TF7 key principle #3:Governments and donor agencies must empower local authorities and communities with the authority, 

resources, and professional capacity required to manage water and sanitation service delivery.

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Case example: Hyderabad, India

In Hyderabad, a new toll‐free hotline allows customers to report problems 24 hours a day 

Data from the hotline are used to generate ‘efficiency ratings’ for Board managers, which are publicly displayed on office terminals

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Case example: Ahmedabad, India

Slum Networking Project offers suite of infrastructure, development services at subsidized prices

Local NGOs involved as equal partners with public agency, helping establish credibility and trust between municipality and urban poor

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Sanitation remains a ‘poor cousin’ to water supply in policy, planning, and budgeting

Photo by Annette M. Kim

Links between sanitation and health are under‐appreciated

Demand for improved sanitation service is often low, from the household to the national level

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TF7 key principle #4:Governments and other stakeholders 

must move the sanitation crisis to the top of the agenda.

TF7 key principle #5:Governments and their civil society and private sector partners must support a wide range of water and sanitation 

technologies and service levels that are technically, socially, environmentally, and 

financially appropriate.

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Case example: Urban sewerage in Brazil‘Condominial’ sewer developed as a lower‐cost option by progres‐sive Brazilian engineersInitially used to extend coverage to slums; evolved into new national standard

Between 1980‐1990, ∼75,000 connections, serving 370,000 people, installed; Brazil’s sanitation coverage rose from 22% to 37%

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Summing upThe MDGs are ambitious, and serious challenges exist to meeting them, particularly (1) in Africa and Asia and   (2) with regard to sanitation.

TF7 has issued 15 key principles for meeting these targets; we will dig more deeply into each of them during the class sessions ahead.