WASH Enabling Environment Sector Coordination Outline Learning Objectives

WASH Enabling Environment Sector Coordination

Outline • • • Learning Objectives Purpose Context Activities Group Work Sector Coordination: Humanitarian & Development Contexts • WASH EE Support process • Scoring

Learning Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to • Explain the importance of sector coordination as a function of the WASH EE • Describe the framework for supporting sector coordination efforts • Identify actions and steps to strengthen sector coordination in support of WASH EE

Purpose

Context: WASH EE Framework

Context: WASH EE Theory of Change

Activities • Support evidence based decision making • Have External Support Agencies (ESAs) make long-term commitments, and build national ownership • Provide technical support for preparing sector report • Finance in-depth studies (e. g. , financial viability, sustainability of water services, etc. ) • Include private sector in CSO • Support government to strengthen humanitarian WASH coordination platform • Partner with media, parliamentarians, social commentators to advance social thinking and social norms • Involve private sector in tracking

Group Work 1. What activities will promote coordination? 2. How will this be different if… • Subsectors are fragmented and some are stronger than others? • When there is a change in government leaving previous coordination efforts in limbo?

Sector Coordination in the Context of Humanitarian Assistance • Discuss how coordination would be different for increasing WASH EE coverage & improve WASH services different in a humanitarian context from a development context? • Would coordination in that context be the same in rural/urban settings?

National Humanitarian WASH Coordination (NHWC) Use the 10 Determinants of the methodological process (and their supplementary list of issues) as a basis for assessment and monitoring

National Humanitarian WASH Coordination (NHWC)

WASH EE Support Process

Support Process Step 1: Agree Identify and map the players (government, donor, NGO, others) • Central stakeholders • Peripheral stakeholders

Support Process Step 2: Assess Determine what coordination mechanisms already exist

Support Process Step 3: Plan List ways / mechanisms these different stakeholders can coordinate together

Support Process Step 4: Invest Determine how UNICEF will invest in this coordination effort

Support Process Step 5: Implement Identify challenges and potential solutions to joint coordination/planning and potential solutions

Support Process Step 6: Monitor & Evaluate • What would you measure to determine whether coordination is operational and effective? • How would the country measure it? • What will the country do with the information?

Scoring Indicator Notes Papua New Guinea Government has a programmatic sector-wide approach to urban and rural WASH, with donors harmonized and supporting implementation of a national plan With the intention for improved stakeholder collaboration and harmonization of efforts towards a shared vision, WASH PMU, headed by a national WASH Coordinator being set up. It will transition into the national WASH Authority (NWASHA) but at the moment, there is no coordinated and programmatic sector wide approach for both urban and rural areas. Lao PDR Government has a programmatic sector-wide approach to urban and rural WASH, with donors harmonized and supporting implementation of a national plan The coordination mechanism needs to be formalized and institutionalized. There is a WASH TWG but still Information sharing and learning forum of which most of the WASH activities are under various working groups. The 1 st Joint Sector Review with UNICEF support conducted in 2015, has brought together concerned stakeholders working in urban and rural WASH to discuss key indicators for monitoring which has paved a road to institutionalize sector coordination. New Water Supply Department recently established under MPWT will be crucial for sector coordination. Vietnam Government has a programmatic sector-wide approach to urban and rural water and sanitation and hygiene, with donors harmonized and supporting implementation of a national plan Sector coordination mechanisms are led by coordinating ministry MARD - well represented by development partners. Reasonable progress in donor harmonization, not many donors though! However, the national target plans (NTPs) were poorly planned and funded - appropriateness of technologies and sustainable management of services continues to pose challenge. Country Weak / Gaps Moderate Progress Good Progress 20 20

For more information, please contact David Tsetse, Ph. D. WASH Specialist, Planning Monitoring and Capacity Building Programme Division Tel: 917 -265 -4663 E-mail: dtsetse@unicef. org © United Nations Children’s Fund June 2016 Cover photo © UNICEF