Water Supply

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Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council

• Dr. Darren Saywell
• Programme Manager
• WSSCC

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Presentation plan

• Context
• Goals
• Types nature of partnerships
• Relationship to stakeholders
• Lessons

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Context

• Nature of WSSCC
• A forum enhancing collaboration in WSS
• Part professional association - part INGO
• Membership driven - over 1700 members
• Enhance impact through common voice

• Background
• Fragmentation of initiatives (dilution of impact)
• Duplication of effort knowledge
• Lack of attention to marginalized voices
  (multi-stakeholder forum)

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Goals

• Advocacy, communications, mobilization
• Knowledge generation
• Knowledge exchange, information dissemination
• National / regional action programmes

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How does it do its work?

• through participatory approaches
• involving many stakeholders
• through strategic partnerships
• via regions and countries
• around thematic interests
• with specialist inputs as required

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Types nature of partnerships

• Range
• Advocacy communications
• Evidence based
• Country and regional levels
• Cross cutting

• Nature
• Engagement varied
• Contributions time, HR
• Incentives profile, association, niche
• Disincentives time, HR, level of funds
• Governance generally informal, loose

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Relationship to stakeholders

• Membership base
• Membership of working groups
• Participatory approaches consultation

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Lessons learned from partnership process

• there are many lessons not all presented
• Clarity
• on purpose, modus operandi, roles (balance),
  duplication, conflicting agendas, costs,
  expectations
• Constituents
• commitment, multi-sectoral interests, champions
  (profile), respectability, core group

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Contact Point WSSCC Secretariat

• Dr. Darren Saywell
• Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council
• International Environment House
• 9 Chemin des Anemones, CH-1219 Chatelaine, Geneva
• Switzerland
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• E-mail saywelld_at_who.int
• Internet www.wsscc.org