Outcomes of

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Outcomes of
World Water Forum 5 Ministerial Roundtable on
Sanitation

• Information provided by UNDESA, UNDP, UNICEF,
  UNSGAB, UN-Habitat, UNU, WHO, WSP, WSSCC,
  WaterAid, ADB, IaDB
• Presented by Bert Diphoorn, Director Human
  Settlements and Financing Division,
• UN-HABITAT

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A tribute to the United Nations Secretary
Generals Advisory Board
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Annual cost of not dealing with water and
sanitation

• Lives lost
• 1.6 million annually due to diarrhoea alone
• Health care costs
• USD7 billion per year to health agencies
• USD340 million to individuals

• Time lost to ill health
• 320 million productive days in 15 59 age range
• 272 million school days lost
• 1.5 billion healthy days for under 5s
• Can be valued at US9.9billion per year
• Time lost to inconvenience
• 20 billion working days per year
• Can be valued at US64billion per year

Source WHO
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Many countries not on track to meet the MDG
sanitation target
Source WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme.
2008
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Steps needed
Measurable improvement
Infrastructure development and use sustained
Fund raising
National stategy implementation budget, focal
point, coordination
National Policy / Strategy design and adoption
Political support
Awareness

Years
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Awareness

• At global and regional Level
• Preparation and distribution of communication
  kits
• Launch of the IYS
• Global Handwashing Day
• Update of regional study on sanitation in 22
  countries of Latin America
• G8 communique mentioning sanitation for the first
  time
• International Seminars on Sanitation (ADB,..
• Regional Sanitation Conferences

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Regional Sanitation Meetings 80 countries
involved
SACOSAN I 9 countries 21-23/10/2003 Dhaka,
Bangladesh SACOSAN II 11 countries 20-21/09/
2006 Islamabad, Pakistan SACOSAN III (In
preparation) 16-21 November 2008 - New Delhi,
India
LATINOSAN 30 countries 12-16 /11/2007 Cali,
Columbia LATINOSAN II (in preparation)
EASAN 14 Countries 30/11-1/12/2007 Beppu
City, Japan
Side-event of Pacific Water Conference ?
Countries 9-11/9/2008 Apia, Samoa
CARIBSAN 12 countries 28-29 /04/2008 Kingston,
Jamaica
AFRICASAN 20 countries 29/07-1/08/2002
Johannesburg, South Africa AFRICASAN5 32
countries 18 - 20 February 2008 Durban, South
Africa Sub-regional meetings AfricaSan-South
4-7/08/ 2003, Gaborone, Botswana AfricaSan-East
1 3/02/2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia AfricaSan-Wes
t and Central 21-23/02/2005, Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso
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Did the process help? - immediate outputs

• Extensive country participation Nearly 90
  countries involved
• Participation of wide spectrum of stakeholders
• High level decision makers (Ministers), local
  governments and municipalities, civil society,
  technical professionals, researchers, private
  sector from different sectors (sanitation,
  water, health, environment)
• Political commitments (declarations)
• Recognition of reality!
• Unprecedented coordination among supporting
  Organizations (WSP, WHO, UNICEF, UNSGAB, UNDP,
  WaterAid, WSSCC, ) at global level and at
  national level

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Awareness Multi-stakeholder conferences

• At national Level
• National Sanitation Forum or Summit Cambodia,
  China, PeruSan, BoliviaSan, NicaraguaSan, Mali,
  EthioSan, Burkina Faso, Philippines
• Gambia Religious leaders forum on sanitation
  promotion
• Sierra Leone workshop for local councils
  representatives
• Sri Lanka workshop on National Sanitation Policy
• At sub-national Level
• Peru 6 regional conferences as preparation to
  PeruSan
• Philippine Mindanao and Luzon Regional
  Sanitation Summits
• Province of Huila, Angola Declaration aiming at
  Open Defecation Free province by 2012
• 2 autonomous regions of Costa Caribe, Nicaragua

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Awareness National events

• Designation of National Day or Week for
  Sanitation, for Clean cities, for Hygiene and
  Health
• Designation of National Sanitation Ambassadors
• Publication of national studies on sanitation

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Awareness media relation

• Creation of journalists network
• Field visits and roundtable sessions for
  journalists
• Sanitation workshops for journalists
• Television and radio broadcast
• 22-minute sanitation advocacy documentary (ADB)
• Two major books published (The Last Taboo, The
  Big Necessity)

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High-level political support

• IYS national launching by Head of State or
  his/her representative in several countries
• India Prime Minister opens SACOSAN
• Nigeria Handwashing campaign launching by wife
  of President
• South Africa Pledge signed by senior politicians
  Minister, Premier of Province

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Policy / strategy design and adoption national

• National Sanitation Strategy under development
  (Burundi, Cambodia, Cote dIvoire, Djibouti,
  Honduras, Vietnam) or finalized (Afghanistan,
  Gambia, Guyana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Sri
  Lanka)
• India New Urban Sanitation Policy (Clean Cities
  Award)
• Indonesia adoption of Solid Waste Regulation,
  extension of Policy and Strategy on Domestic
  Waste Water Management
• AfricaSan Followup Action Plan (Burkina Faso,
  Burundi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South
  Africa Tanzania, Uganda)
• Watsan sector strategic plan for all member
  countries of IaDB
• Uruguay official commitment for 100 coverage in
  the next years

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National action plan implementation national
budget

• Significant budget increases in some countries
• Decision to better track sector budget and to
  have it on a specific budget line

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National action plan implementation focal point

• Set up of
• National Technical Sanitation for Environmental
  Sanitation in Angola
• separate ministry and department for Public
  Health and Sanitation in Kenya
• Sanitation Task Force in Ministry of Water Supply
  and Drainage in Sri Lanka

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National action plan implementation coordination

• Coordination among Ministries (Mauritania)
• Coordination among all stakeholders (Gambia,
  India, Nicaragua, Mali, Suriname, Tanzania,
  Vietnam)

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National action plan implementation community
involvement

• National Strategy on Community Action for Total
  Sanitation (Indonesia, Myanmar)
• Community-led Total Sanitation campaigns
  (Mauritania, Zambia)
• Special programmes to provide support to
  municipalities (South Africa)
• Governmental financial incentive for open
  defecation free villages (Nepal)
• Declaration of First Open-Defecation Free
  village, pilot project CLTS in 4 villages
  (Eritrea)

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Fund-raising

• Creation of Global Sanitation Fund
• IDB set up of Aquafund
• ADB release of Sanitation Strategy commitment
  to allocate 20 of Water Financing Program to
  sanitation Indonesia Sanitation Donor Group
• Nepal joint agreement for basket fund creation
  with UNICEF/WHO/UN-Habitat
• Pakistan Water and Sanitation Sector Donor
  Coordination Group
• Philippines creation of Innovative Sanitation
  Interventions Project Fund creation with WSP of
  SuSEa-Philippines to increase access of poor to
  sanitation
• Vietnam donor-led 3-fold budget increase in 6
  provinces

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Field activities Infrastructure development

• Afghanistan special project Clean Villages
  first women toilet elements production center
  opened
• Bostwana equipment of Dukwe Refugee Camp
• Pilot project for sanitation in schools (Sierra
  Leon, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Timor-Leste)

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Field activities training

• Refurbishment of Sanitation Park at Fiji School
  of Medicine
• National consultation and training for sanitation
  engineers (Philippines)
• Hands-on training with government
  representatives, NGOs and communities
  (Philippines, Suriname, Tanzania)

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More examples available

• On www.sanitationyear2008.org

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And now?

• We are behind on the Sanitation MDG, what do we
  do about it?
• Should countries adopt guidelines or common goals
  on wastewater collection, treatment and reuse?
• How do we most effectively build on the
  commitments generated during the regional
  sanitation conferences (budget allocations,
  national sanitation plans, governmental
  sanitation focal points)?
• Should countries adopt guidelines or common goals
  on wastewater collection, treatment and reuse?
• Can we build capacity through Water Operators
  Partnerships?
• UNSGAB suggests that the thematic focus of WWF 6
  be on closing the loop between human settlement
  discharges and their surrounding environments