Stockholm World Water Week 2016
Event: WASHoholic Anonymous – Confessions of Failure and how to Reform
“$30 brings clean water a person” – The promise made by marketing departments of WASH implementers and accepted by donors and governments. The truth is this may provide first time access to people but not sustainable services. The theoretical foundation for sustainability is established in the WASH Sustainability Charter but translating broad policy discussions into practice is proving difficult.
This seminar builds on the Agenda for Change initiative, the WASH Sustainability Forum and a workshop on Post Implementation Monitoring (PIM) where practitioners, funders and government debated obstacles to general uptake and scaling up of corrective actions to improve sector sustainability.
State and non-state WASH actors have project monitoring systems and tools that capture project implementation data to report against budgetary investments, fund raising and marketing. Fewer actors collect and share information on investments after the project ends. The concerns of WASH practitioners include: monitoring for sustainability is not budgeted; fear of reporting failure of services; and,, ambiguity about responsibility for corrective action.
Monitoring, reporting and greater transparency about failures and success after the project and support to governments to use this information will help keep our promise of universal access to WASH services by 2030.
“WASHoholic Anonymous – Confessions of Failure and how to Reform”
Introduction
14:00 Welcome, Thilo Panzerbieter, Chariman of the German WASH Network
14:05 Setting the Scene: The Sustainability Crisis in the WASH Sector, Harold Lockwood (Aguaconsult)
Confessions of Failure
14:10 Implementing partner confessional: The sustainability challenge from a practitioner and donor perspective Stephan Simon (Welthungerhilfe) and Christian Wiebe (Viva Con Agua)
14:20 Local government confessional: Are local governments fulfilling their role to ensure sustainable service delivery? Aggrey Nayuhamya, Chairman of Kamwenge District Local Government in Western Uganda
14:25 Research and learning confessional: The “Agenda for Change” – a good step into the right direction? Dr. Patrick Moriarty (IRC)
14:30 Donor confessional: The “Sustainability Clause” – what it can do and what it cannot Dick van Ginhoven (DGIS)
14:35 Question and Answers
Round Table Discussion
14: 40 Round table discussion on the following themes:
- Monitoring
- Financing
- Governance
Reporting Back and Closure
15:10 Reporting back from tables
15:25 Main take-aways and wrap-up
SuSanA Working Group 10
The Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) was co-convenor of the WASHoholics Seminar at the SWWW 2016. The SuSanA Working Group 10 Meeting continued and expanded the discussions of the seminar.
Presentations:
- Stephan Simon (Welthungerhilfe): Sustainable Service Initiative
- Alex Wolf (BORDA): Introduction to the 4S project
- Maren Heuwels (BORDA): Effective Governance for the Successful Long-term Operation of Community Scale Air Limbah Systems
Results:
- Working group renamed into “Operation, Maintenance and Sustainable Services”
- New Co-Lead: Ajay Paul (Welthungerhilfe)
Next Steps:
- Revision of the WG10 Factsheet and inclusion of the sustainable services dimension
- Thematic Discussion Series foreseen end of 2016
Link to SuSanA
Find here the official programme of the event
Organizers of the Event
Agenda for Change
Aguaconsult
Directorate-General for International Cooperation, The Netherlands (DGIS)
German Toilet Organization
IRC
Rural Water Supply Network
Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA)
Viva con Agua
Welthungerhilfe
Invited experts and speakers
Thilo Panzerbieter, German Toilet Organization (GTO)/ German WASH Network
Harold Lockwood, Aguaconsult
Stephan Simon, Welthungerhilfe
Christian Wiebe, Viva Con Agua
Aggrey Nayuhamya, Chairman of Kamwenge District Local Government in Western Uganda
Dr. Patrick Moriarty, IRC
Dick van Ginhoven, DGIS
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