The IASC Cluster Approach

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The IASC WASH Cluster Water,
Sanitation and Hygiene
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WASH Cluster Advocacy and Support Team

• Global WASH Cluster Coordinator
• Paul Sherlock New York
• Global WASH Cluster Co-ordination -
• Jean McCluskey Geneva
• UNICEF Cluster capacity building
• Nick Willson New York

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• Responsibility of Global Cluster Leads
• Standards and Policy Setting
• (including Best Practice)
• Building Response Capacity
• (including training, surge capacity, standby
  roster, stockpiles)
• Operational Support
• (capacity assessment, emergency preparedness,
  access to technical expertise, advocacy
  resource mobilisation)

• ensuring system-wide preparedness technical
  capacity to respond to emergencies
• ensuring greater predictability and more
  effective inter-agency responses
• achieved through establishing broad partnership
  bases (i.e. clusters) that engage the
  achievement of these responsibilities

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Global WASH Cluster Partners

• NGOs ACF, Oxfam, IRC, WVI, CRS
• Concern, CARE, NCA, Red R
• ICMH, (IMC)
• Red Cross IFRC, ICRC
• UN UNICEF, WHO, UNEP, UNHCR, OCHA
• Consortiums InterAction, (SCHR/ICVA)
• Inst. CDC. CEHE
• Donors OFDA, DFID, ECHO.

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Implementation - The Working Group Approach

• Agencies have specific strengths/comparative
  advantages
• Value and contribution to make in developing the
  sector globally desire to harness these
  strengths for the sector as a whole
• The strengths of all different agencies together
  are much greater than the capacity of any one
  agency
• Cluster lead has responsibilities and
  accountabilities but these can only be achieved
  by working together
• Implementation supported by the Cluster Support
  Team ensuring it happens

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Working Structure
Global WASH CAST (UNICEF) (Cluster Advocacy
Support Team
Internal Lead Agency Support
Interagency
Global Cluster Workplan Support
UNICEF Capacity Building
Inter-cluster/sector links
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Working Structure
Global WASH Workplan
Principles
Project Management

• Shared ownership of workplan
• Joint decision making
• Multi-agency involvement
• Project based

• 3 levels of involvement
• Lead Agency implementer(s)
• Steering Group (CAST )
• Peer Review Group

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Summary of Global WASH Cluster Workplan

• 5 Strategic Areas
• WASH Cluster/Sector Co-ordination
• Information Management
• WASH Sector Capacity for Humanitarian Response
• WASH Sector Preparedness
• Best Practice and Learning

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1. WASH Cluster/Sector Co-ordination

• 1.1 Global Cluster Advocacy Support Team
• 1.2 Training Roster of country-level
  Co-ordinators RedR../unicef
• 1.3 Resources for Initial Cluster Co-ordinator
  Cell NA
• 1.4 Rapid Needs Assessment Team NP
• 1.5 Advocacy Resource Mobilisation Tools and
  Guidance for Clusters and Cluster Co-ordinators
• Lead by CAST

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2. Information Management

• 2.1 Systems and Tools
• - Rapid Needs Assessment
• - Detailed Needs Assessment
• - Who What Where in WASH
• - Gap Analysis
• - Monitoring (Benchmarks and Indicators)
• - Mapping needs
• (Done in co-ordination with OCHA and other
  clusters)
• Lead by Oxfam and IRC

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3. WASH Cluster/Sector Capacity for Humanitarian
Response

• 3.1 Hygiene Promotion coherence, tools,
  guidance, training, resources, mentors , Oxfam
• 3.2 Training for Capacity Building Development
  and roll-out
• 3.3 Standby Arrangements for accessing Technical
  Expertise
• 3.4 Agency specific capacity building in WASH

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4. WASH Cluster/Sector Preparedness

• 4.1 Global National Capacity Mapping
  Frameworks
• 4.2 WASH Cluster Awareness Workshops
• 4.3 Interagency Preparedness Contingency
  Planning
• 4.4 Global WASH Stockpile

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5. Best Practice and Learning

• 5.1 Learning Reviews of WASH cluster
  implementation
• 5.2 Cross Cutting Issues Publication for WASH
• 5.3 Environment guidance, tools, Field Advisory
  Support
• 5.4 Early Recovery - guidance, tools
• 5.5 Disaster Risk Reduction - guidance, tools
• 5.6 Accountability in WASH Programming -
  guidance, tools
• 5.7 Vulnerable Groups and WASH Programming -
  guidance,
• tools (children, older people, disabled)

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WASH Cluster

• Take an example, how it works for us

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• Global WASH cluster.what is it
• Every large scale emergency, now a system.
  Between global and field.
• Operational ngos already engaged and have an
  expectation of what to happen
• Global WASH now looked at this inLiberia , Java
  Uganda ,Philippines and recently Moz. (RTE)
• Collected these lesson learnt for OCHA training
  course
• We are planning to bring ALL WASH cluster leads
  so far together in July in Nairobi. (mostly
  unicef)
• Backing up system , soon to be 7 Emerg.WASH
  Advisers (unicef). These funded out of both
  capacity building and other cluster donors ie
  ECHO

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• At a Country/Regional level WESNET meetings in
  all areas cluster being rolled out
• Every area will follow up with training. (part
  of RedR work)
• Linking in with work being done by DHR and RedR
  on the global roster and training at Global and
  regional level
• From this comes UNCT with the Gov planing
  recently in Timor Leste and a little in Somalia
• Next month an up dating of the UNICEF office in
  Ethiopia with some briefing for the Gov.

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• Environmental and Solid Waste issues..we are
  planning work in this area but little done yet.
• The lastest thing from our learning Project was a
  Review of our WASH Cluster Strategy.
• This was to see if we were going in the right
  direction and the we still had our feet in the
  water and hands in the ..

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Is WASH Cluster complementary/compatable with
UNICEFs established policies and commitments ie
the CCCs

• YES one full time member of the CAST is focused
  only on internal UNICEF. We see as the cluster
  grows then UNICEF s capacity has to grow.
• Example .We have a global cluster capacity
  mapping of equipment used by the agencies and
  where its stored and do we need more of it etc.
  We have the same going in UNICEF and its
  equipment and how we get it out quicker. These
  two will very soon come together

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Some areas where everyone is involved

• Hygiene Project lead by Oxfam with global office
  support from UNICEF . Very soon first phase will
  be rolled out. (very much in support of the YEAR
  of SANITATION 2008)
• In the WASH cluster we are looking to build
  capacity in the sector agencies as well as
  unicef. But we recognise UNICEF unique in child
  focus work and have requested money in this years
  appeal for work in preparedness in schools

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Linking with Other Clusters

• Camp Co-ordination and Camp Management
  Developing MoU on roles of each cluster in camps
• Shelter NFI responsibility ensuring WASH
  facilities integrated into shelter in
  emergencies/recovery
• Developing MoU with UNHCR for Refugee Situations
• Nutrition Health potentially on
  inter-sectoral needs assessment.
• Meeting of Cluster leads for Health, Nutrition,
  WASH Planned joint meeting 19th-20th June 2007

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Thank you