CARE Emergency WASH Gender Programming Minimum Commitments Pilots

CARE Emergency WASH & Gender Programming Minimum Commitments Pilots Beth Megnassan April 2016

Contents • • • The Emergency WASH Team Overview of WASH in Emergencies What are Gender Minimum Commitments in WASH What has been done so far Next steps 1 February 21, 2021

The Emergency Global WASH Team CARE’s WASH team responds to both acute and complex emergencies around the world with various interventions. Nick Brooks – Team Leader Damian Seal - WASH Advisor Beth Megnassan – WASH and Gender Advisor 2 February 21, 2021

What do we see here? 3 February 21, 2021

Why Gender Minimum Commitments in WASH? How consultative are we? Is participation inclusive enough? Do we give voice to groups at particular risk of violence or who might be frightened or unable to access our facilities, such as adolescent girls or persons with reduced mobility? Are our public latrine and shower blocks of sufficient quality to meet dignity and safety needs? How about our water supply facilities?

Why Gender Minimum Commitments cont. The Global WASH cluster partners agreed that 5 minimum commitments should be observed in all their humanitarian WASH programmes to ensure that the distinct assistance and protection needs of the affected population are met. • Four organizations (ACF, CARE, NCA and Solidarites) and 4 country clusters (DRC, Niger, Lebanon) committed to piloting the implementation of the approach in their respective missions or with the cluster partners since November 2014. 5 February 21, 2021

Why Gender Minimum Commitments cont. These commitments, centred on people, aim at improving the quality and efficiency of the WASH response programmes in every context, and at ensuring that key issues are taken into consideration by all partners, such as gender, gender based violence, child protection, disability, and age (social inclusiveness). 6 February 21, 2021

Gender Minimum Commitments for WASH Minimum commitments for the safety and dignity of affected people DESIGN ASSESSMENT Consult separately girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities, to ensure that WASH programs are designed so as to provide equitable access and reduce incidences of violence Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to appropriate and safe WASH services IMPLEMENTATION Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to feedback & complaint mechanisms so that corrective actions can address their specific protection and assistance needs ACROSS THE RESPONSE Give priority to girls (particularly adolescents) and women’s participation in the consultation process RESPONSE MONITORING 5 commitments Monitor and evaluate safe and equitable access and use of WASH services in WASH projects

WASH Minimum commitments for the safety and dignity of affected people 5 commitments ASSESSMENT Consult separately girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities, to ensure that WASH programs are designed so as to provide equitable access and reduce incidences of violence Outputs v. WASH assessments include identification of specific needs of girls, boys, women, including older people and persons with disability in terms of safety, dignity and equitable access v. Location of WASH facilities and their design are determined through separate consultations of girls, boys, women, including older people and persons with disabilities in order to ensure equitable access and minimize risks of violence DESIGN Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to appropriate and safe WASH services IMPLEMENTATION Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including older people and those with disabilities have access to feedback & complaint mechanisms so that corrective actions can address their specific protection and assistance needs RESPONSE MONITORING Monitor and evaluate safe and equitable access and use of WASH services in WASH projects ACROSS THE RESPONSE Give priority to girls (particularly adolescents) and women’s participation in the consultation process v. WASH facilities are designed to respond to distinct dignity, safety and access needs (i. e. all public latrines and shower blocks are separated by sex, locks on the inside, privacy screens considered, lights, pictograms, specific design for people with disability…). This includes WASH facilities in spaces dedicated to children. v. Menstrual hygiene needs of girls and women are met v. WASH users (girls, boys, women, including elders and persons with disability) are informed of their rights and understand the feedback complaint mechanisms related to WASH programs v. The cluster member organisations and coordination platforms set up a feedback mechanism with and for beneficiaries and take timely corrective actions to address safety, dignity and access issues raised by users and/or to redefine their assistance v. Baselines and M&E tools include the collection of sex and age disaggregated data on the access and use of WASH facilities, including on how safe people feel using WASH facilities v. Collection and analysis of disaggregated data on beneficiaries and information on older people and persons with disability contributes to improving safe and equitable access and use of WASH services for vulnerable population v. Specific focus group discussions are organized for women and girls during the needs assessment phase and across the response

What has CARE done so far So far, CARE has piloted the commitments in Niger, Lebanon, and Nepal • Lebanon – Country Programme • Nepal – Country Programme and District WASHCC • Niger – National WASH Cluster 9 February 21, 2021

The Scoring All the answers to the questions are YES More than HALF of the answers to the questions are YES GREEN Half or less of the answers to the questions are YES RED 10 February 21, 2021 ORANGE

Baseline Findings NAME OF THE ORGANISATION Assessment Design Implementation Response monitoring Nepal ORANGE Niger RED ORANGE RED Lebanon ORANGE RED RED 11 February 21, 2021

Results of Pilots • Integration of the Rapid gender analysis results in a much more integrated and focused manner. • Change in the design of the facilities to ensure that dignity and safety needs of the users are better met, for instance toilet designs also took into consideration not only the needs of the women and girls but also those of the elderly and those living with disabilities. • The MEAL Frameworks were also adapted to reflect the needs and feedback mechanisms from the most vulnerable groups including the elderly and those living with disabilities 12 February 21, 2021

Results cont. • Particular focus is placed on commitment 2, for the equal access to WASH services and facilities that are appropriate and safe thus offering an increased attention to female hygiene needs e. g female hygiene/dignity kits. • Changes in partners’ approaches and activities have taken place. Partners now report an increased consultation with affected populations at the planning phase, increased consultation of the beneficiaries about the siting of the facilities, improved design of the emergency toilets and shower blocks so as to address dignity and safety needs. 13 February 21, 2021

Cont. • Clearly targeting the elderly and people living with disabilities. These had been mostly forgotten or ignored • The ability to rate performance with regards to how well one is integrating the issues from the various categories of most vulnerable people (women, girl, boys, men, elderly, people with disabilities) 14 February 21, 2021

Key Limitations • For the cluster in Niger, they cited the inadequate staff to take care of individual support to partners and effective monitoring of the implementation of the approach as a limitation. • Training materials provided by GWC had overlooked the fact that some team members may not have been trained on basic gender aspects. This was a major gap. • Inadequate knowledge about how to deal with specific needs of the elderly and those living with disabilities 15 February 21, 2021

Scale Up • Using the lessons learnt from the pilot, there are plans to scale up the process to other countries. (already done in Vanuatu) • Improvement of the training materials for introduction of minimum commitments to take care of gaps identified. • Need to roll it out to other sectors but with adaptations 16 February 21, 2021

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