Water and Sanitation Trust Fund: UN-HABITAT

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Water and Sanitation Trust FundUN-HABITATS
Response to MDG and WSSD

• By
• Kalyan Ray
• Senior Adviser on Water, Sanitation
  Infrastructure
• Office of the Executive Director

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The Urban Challenge

• Urbanization and feminization of poverty
• Translating Global Goals into Local Action
• Bringing Sector Reforms to Local Level
• Enhancing Pro-poor Investment

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New Mandates for Water and Sanitation

• Millennium Summit Targets
• Sufficient improvement in the lives of at least
  100 million slum dwellers by 2020
• Halve by the year 2015, the proportion of people
  without access to safe drinking water

Johannesburg Summit Sanitation Targets Halve by
the year 2015, the proportion of people who do
not have access to basic sanitation CSD 12
13 Water, Sanitation, H.S.
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The MDG Context A New Opportunity

• Commitment at the highest level to a set of
  quantitave time bound targets
• A new compact Water, Sanitation and Human
  Settlements An Entry point for realization of
  other MDGs
• The Goal and the Process MDGs and PRSPs

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ODA More and Better

• The Country by Country, Donor by Donor, Project
  by Project Approach is NOT the Answer
• The Need for a Programmatic Approach
• Committing More, Implementing Better.
• Greater Focus on Monitoring and Evaluation

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UN-HABITATs Response

• A Water and Sanitation Trust Fund Established in
  October 2002, with a well-defined Goal and a
  Clear Set of objectives
• Focus on Pro-poor Investments
• Reliance on core competencies
• Advocacy, Awareness Raising and Education
• Building Capacity Linked to Follow-up Investments
• Building Partnerships at Local Level
• Demonstration and Piloting of Innovative
  Approaches

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Water and Sanitation Trust Fund

Promoting pro-poor investment through regional
water and sanitation programmes.
Development of norms, standards and management
toolkits for pro-poor investment.
Strategic support to local pro-poor water and
sanitation initiatives.
Monitoring of progress towards internationally
agreed goals and targets.
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Delivery Mechanisms

• Regional Programmes
• Water for African Cities programme
• Water for Asian Cities programme
• Strategic Initiatives at Regional Level
• Lake Victoria Water Sanitation Initiative
• Greater Mekong Water and Sanitation Initiative
• Normative Work
• Global Assessments State of Water Sanitation
• Pro-poor Governance Toolkit
• Rights-based Approach to water and Sanitation
• Integrated Urban Water Resource Management
• Environmental Assessments
• Monitoring Progress with Achievement of MDG

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Building Strategic Partnerships with Development
Partners

• International Financing Institutions
• Asian Development Bank (500 Million over 5
  years)
• African Development Bank (362 Million over 5
  years)
• The World Bank (under negotiation)
• EU ?
• Donor Countries and Institutions
• EU member states The Netherlands, Norway,
  (Sweden)
• Canada Canada Fund for Africa
• European Institutions IHE-Delft IRC IIED
  WEDC SIWI
• Africa ENDA CREPACEFOC NETWAS

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