WASH Sustainability: Looking Through the GLAAS
On July 17, Global Water Challenge and WASH Advocates held another webinar in our WASH Sustainability Webinar Series.
WASH Sustainability: Looking Through the GLAAS is an hour-long webinar bringing together leading WASH experts and GLAAS report contributors to discuss the practical implications of the recent report.
The UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report monitors the inputs needed to extend and sustain water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems and services.
GLAAS contributors Catarina Fonseca, WASHCost Project Director at the International Water and Sanitation Centre (IRC) and Peregrine Swann, Consultant to the GLAAS Team at the World Health Organization (WHO) discussed what's behind the numbers of the GLAAS report with specific focus on external support agencies, sustainability, and financing.
This webinar was moderated by Eddy Perez, Senior Sanitation Specialist at the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program.
It was great to have many of you join us for our recent webinar and we welcome you to continue the discussion below. For those of you who were not able to attend or would like to review the webinar recording and answers to the questions posed during the webinar, click here to watch the video.
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How have the investments of World Bank & other banks improved the ability of governments to deal with WASH?
The Foundation Center is tracking funding to the WASH Sector through the website WASHfunders.org. Do the people who work on the GLAAS report know about this?
Is there any info on private sector financing?
There are many charities raising money to support NGOs working in many countries. Is there a checklist or priority list to help them to decide which country they should invest so that they can help the coverage and have a bigger picture of the WASH?
About sustainability, are you familiar with the FairWater BlueZone concept with privatized maintenance, already good results in Gambia, Tanzania, etc.?
More thoughts on how Foundations, in particular, could be strategic in investing in WASH compared to other external donors like multilaterals and bilaterals?
How would you suggest measuring “inequality” and include it as an indicator of progress?
Where are volunteer efforts and financial sources from local urban and rural community involvement factored into the aid figures and evaluations?
Does a sustainability clause to NGOs undermine the ownership of local government and utilities?
Do environmental indicators (i.e. Payment for Ecosystem Services, or others) factor in monitoring and evaluation of for sustainability of WASH projects? If so, how?
If self-supply is such an important part of rural water systems, how do those who self-supply manage their infrastructure? They must also face impediments to procuring parts and technical assistance.
How do you translate the sustainability aspect to the Hygiene & Behavior change interventions? Especially at a time we are pushing to have at least ONE global indicator measuring hygiene outcomes in the post 2015 era?
Even though ODA represents only a relatively small amount of total investment in many countries, it has a dis-proportionate role in rural WASH delivery especially. What are the three main policy reforms or interventions that donors could usefully address to improve sustainability?
What is your view of the role of governments, local private sector and consumers if donors and multilaterals are held accountable for sustainability?
Have you given any thought to specific financial obligations that can be organized by NGOs or external donors to ensure 10-year+ sustainability of their investments (e.g. posting bond, buying term insurance, or even CDOs), perhaps with accountability split/negotiated between donors, rate payers and governments?
Some indigenous NGOs sponsor Circuit Rider programs, which help provides on-going support to communities through training, monitoring and evaluation of WASH programs, and it creates jobs. Communities pay for part of this service but usually can't pay for the whole service. Have the speakers or any participants on this webinar seen other ways for this type of program to be financed?
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