Title: Looking through the GLAAS
1"Looking through the GLAAS"
Ministerial Dialogue on Sanitation and
Water Washington, DC 22 April 2010 Federico
Properzi Peregrine Swann Project
Manager Senior Adviser properzif_at_who.i
nt swannp_at_who.int WHO GLAAS Team
2Context and content of presentation
- Data from first UN-Water GLAAS report launched
yesterday 21 April - Report includes data from nearly all donors and
42 developing countries - WHO GLAAS team worked closely with World Bank WSP
team that is preparing the Country Status
Overviews for 32 African countries - Strong collaboration between UN-Water GLAAS and
WSP-CSO - Presentation looks at
- Impact of poor sanitation and unsafe water
- Targeting of resources
- Who's providing the external resources?
- Who's receiving ODA?
- Who's not receiving ODA?
- Are resources focused on the poor and the
un-served? - What is happening at the country level
- Some highlights
3Outline
- Impact
- Priorities
- Targeting
- Capacities
- Partnerships
- Highlights
41. Impact of poor sanitationand unsafe water
- HEALTH
- 2.2 million preventable deaths of children
- Diarrhoea the second leading contributor to
global disease burden - For children under 15, impact of diarrhoea
greater than that of HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB
combined - Overall around 9 of the global burden of disease
attributable to poor sanitation and unsafe water - EDUCATION
- 11 increase in girls attendance in Bangladesh
UNICEF study - Evidence of increased learning performance when
worm infections reduced - ECONOMY
- economic benefits of many times the invested
- World Bank estimate between 2 and 7 of GDP lost
through poor sanitation and unsafe water in
developing countries
51. Impact of poor sanitationand unsafe water
Source Safer Water, Better Health WHO, 2008
62. PrioritiesDonor priority sectors
72. PrioritiesAid for health and education has
outpaced aid for sanitation and drinking-water
82. PrioritiesDeveloping countries report
insufficient funds to meet the sanitation and
water MDG target
9UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 1
Greater political commitment to sanitation and
drinking-water by donors and developing countries
103. Targeting42 of WASH aid to low-income
countries
113. TargetingGlobal trends of WASH aid
Aid flows for basic water and sanitation remained
relatively constant at US 1.1 billion, and aid
flows for large systems increased from US 2.6
billion to US 4.3 billion from 2000 to 2008
123. TargetingPoor targeting to unserved and poor
populations
13UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 2
Target resources better to reach the sanitation
and drinking-water MDG Target
144. CapacitiesInstitutional roles and
responsibilities need to be better defined and
operationalized
154. CapacitiesInvestment programmes in sanitation
are lagging behind
164. CapacitiesStaff shortages primarily due
toinadequate budgets
17UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 3
Strengthen national systems to plan, implement
and monitor delivery of services
185. PartnershipsProcedures to promote local
stakeholder participation are weak
195. PartnershipsMost aid recipients have a
multitude of donors disbursing funds
205. PartnershipsAid disbursements generally
follow commitment levels
21UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 4
Stronger partnerships to develop and implement
national sanitation and drinking-water plans
226. Highlights Donors
- WASH aid increased between 2000 and 2008 by over
150 to Africa and over 50 globally - Over the same period, WASH aid reduced as a of
overall aid (from approx 6.3 to 4.7) - 42 of aid targeted to LICs (plus some regional
aid) - Top 12 priority recipients receive 50 of WSS aid
- ODA for basic services declined from 27 to 16
over the last five years - Donors targeted 37 of WASH aid to sanitation
against 63 to water - Predictability of donor funding as perceived by
GLAAS countries increasing
236. Highlights Developing countries
- Most countries developed national MDG targets but
financial flows to WASH insufficient to meet
these national MDG targets in many countries - Governments spend 20 of WASH funds on sanitation
(median figure) - Only one third of countries implement criteria
for targeting resources to the poor for water and
hardly any for sanitation - Most countries have developed WASH policies but
only one half have clearly defined and
operationalized roles for WASH institutions - Most countries are developing some kind of HRD
plan, but many HR obstacles are cited - Most countries have an annual review process but
few update undertakings made in previous reviews - Around one third of sub-sectors utilize over 75
of donor commitments, but 20 utilize less than
50 - Local participation in planning and
implementation of programmes not consistently
applied in any of the four sub-sectors
(urban/rural water/sanitation)
24THANK YOU
Federico Properzi Peregrine
Swann Project Manager Senior
Adviser properzif_at_who.int
swannp_at_who.int WHO GLAAS Team
www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/glaas
glaas_at_who.int