WASH STAKEHOLDER GROUP - MINUTES

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1 DATE : VENUE : CHAIR : MINUTES : ATTENDEES: GOVERNMENT: NGOs/Other MoH ADRA Robert Zutu MDPAC CARITAS Mary Malagela, Dominic Baona RDP Peter Wopereis, Emma Carden LIVE & LEARN William Chipu, Samson Rukale RWASH Tom Nanau, Isabel Ross, Leonard Olivera, Piter Visser Red Cross Simon Doreille, Iulah Pitamama, Hexley Ona, MMERE SAVE THE CHILDREN Julius Ross MEHRD SIDT HPU UNICEF UNDP Vini Talai FUNDING AGENCIES WaterAid Amy Dysart DFAT Gina De Pretto WHO EU WORLD VISION Paul Amao JICA NZAID AGENDA ITEMS: 1. Welcome; Agenda; Previous minutes: Any update on the WASH in schools? No update/progress as meeting was cancelled by MEHRD. UNICEF will fund a TA at MEHRD for WASH progress seems on hold till arrival of TA; minutes accepted and seconded; 2. WASH Implementation update: Save the Children: Commenced implementation of the DFAT funded HPA: 15 communities total in 3 provinces; Repair piped supplies, hand-dug wells, and installing rainwater units. The community assembly has started with pre-construction workshop and WASH committee formation (3 formed so far); WaterAid: Preparing implantation of a small-scale WASH program in 4 villages (50 households); duration 3 months; Red Cross: USAID funded WASH program in 9 communities (3 in Savo, 6 in Guadalcanal) and 4 schools in Honiara. Implementation is expected to start soon; Small-scale household level water treatment being trialed (BioSand filters: slow sand filters combined with biological filtration - constructed using locally available materials) presentation of design and result to follow; Caritas: Country program review completed final report expected later this month; 1 rainwater harvesting system done at Tanarare; World Vision: 3 programs at the moment though one (iwash) due to finish this month; DFAT funded program in 16 schools and 5 peri-urban settlements in Honiara; New financial year just started and includes WASH program covering 16 communities in the Russell Islands (CIP); Live & Learn: One WASH program with UNICEF: 3 schools in Guadalcanal, 2 schools in Honiara, 5 schools in Isabel, and 4 schools in Malaita; No records of activities either from L&L or UNICEF in WASH database L&L asked to update; 1

2 ADRA: 1 WASH program currently funded through church appeals: 6 schools. 1 school (Papala) now complete (well, tanks, plus toilet blocks), procuring materials for the next; All school projects include water and sanitation; RWP: surveys & designs completed for 2 provinces (Choiseul & Western); Visit for Makira planned next; no update available for current projects; RDP: Phase 2: GP Flood Plains recovery program: surveys and design done, now procuring materials; Approximately 80 WASH projects in Cycle 1 with about 70 piped supplies lots of design work for RDP working on standard designs with CRISP and in cooperation with RWP; 3. Sanitation & Hygiene: RDP: CLTS not yet included but discussion possibilities with RWP; Save the Children: CLTS in 3 communities in Guadalcanal under HPA project; Hygiene promotion: using existing IEC materials adjusted with SC s logo due to start in September this year; Red Cross: CHAST due to start in September in 4 schools; procuring for ablution blocks (as per L&L design) now; All 9 communities triggered for CLTS. WaterAid: 12 month CLTS program in South Choiseul with the Youth at Work program initially in 4 communities later extending to 10 more training planned for September; CLTS included in New Kolena (GP); RWP: Tirotonna NOD celebrated at last! Makira conducted recently in 16 villages + 5 World Vision managed villages: 5 nearly ready to be declared NOD after verification; Training in Western Province conducted in May in 16 villages monitoring now so no update as yet; Training in Isabel province planned for August (with L&L); ToT planned for Aug/Sept with sector partners in Honiara; Hygiene Campaign: in the schools: term 3 started which will include student competitions; Term 2 drama group was well received; Small sponsorship call only met with 4 replies (sponsorship is for developing songs/drama etc, not hardware); Analysing monitoring data from school hygiene campaign now; received draft IEC materials: story book for age 6-9, and comic book for age (developed using UNICEF fund and MEHRD review); Sanitation Marketing: discussing with TVET on developing WASH/Sanitation related courses for inclusion in curriculum of RTCs; focus not only on technical but also awareness and possibly CLTS in life-skills program; Caritas: none at the moment; Live & Learn: Sanitation Marketing in communities around Honiara: 2 businesses now have license to operate in Honiara and GP; CLTS program being developed with Plan Australia covering 55 communities, 3 schools over 3 years: community selection yet to take place, due to start in August; Working with Ilia and Kolale schools on hygiene and sanitation; ADRA: doing sanitation in schools only at the moment; RDP: some sanitation projects in the GP flood plain projects with ablution blocks in 2 schools and flush toilets in a third; Cycle 1 may include sanitation at schools if funds are available; Looking to include CLTS in program; 2

3 World Vision: CLTS in 10 communities in Makira (iwash project) 3 need verification for NOD; CLTS in 5 Honiara communities; Implementing PHAST in 16 schools (8 in Makira & 8 in South Malaita); 4. Institutional WASH: Save the Children: looking to cooperate with schools in communities so that when community sessions take place, children get involved as well; WaterAid: Institutional triggering should be included in community activities so all are reached WaterAid looking to (how to) support this idea; World Vision: working with 18 schools and 1 clinic (Makira); 5. Finance Resources: DFAT: HSSP 3 starting in October with portion of funds for EHD RWASH mainly focused on sanitation & hygiene. Funding several sectors partners through ANCP funding; RDP: Communities can co-fund or look for additional funding if projects exceeds RDP program limit. Discussion with RWP have taken place in co-funding projects through Grant mechanism; Funding: Save the Children A$500,000 (DFAT); WaterAid A$200,000 + A$40-50,000; French Red Cross funded by USAID, SI Red Cross by UNICEF; World Vision: SBD400,000 left in budget, for evaluation, joint verification visits and NOD celebrations etc.; L&L: SBD3 million with Plan Australia; ADRA: using church-raised funding, 1 st appeal A$100,000, second appeal underway; RWP: The outsourcing framework that has been drafted is yet awaiting approval from CTB, expected at the end of July; 6. Emergencies/Disasters/DRR/CC: Save the Children: DRR focused more on food security and is part of the DFAT funded HPA project; Has commenced already; World Vision: DRR project in Central Islands and East Malaita (till end of 2016); L&L: DRR project focused on food security in Temotu and Guadalcanal; WaterAid: new coordination group for NGOs relating to DRR, next meeting August 8; ADRA: DRR in 10 communities in Guadalcanal and 10 in North Malaita, funded by ADRA International; activities include setting up Disaster Mngt Committees, scheduled to finish this month; Red Cross: all DRR activities always linked with WASH projects; RDP: the Guadalcanal Flood Recovery Project; DFAT: funding provided to Save the Children s activities on DRR (and WASH); UNDP: working closely with OCHA and World Bank to draft new DM plan; high-level discussions have taken place to include DRR in all activities across Ministries; 6 desalination plants being procured; Caritas: research on climate change completed by Australia office, included work in communities in GP and Malaita; 3

4 7. Completed project /completion certificate: Current database includes projects marked as completed while they only deal with part of the project (f.e. community mobilization) or limited interventions (f.e. increase in storage volume or disaster recovery projects). Issue is that once it is marked as complete this community will not be included anymore regardless whether there are still WASH needs; The indicators for the EU support to the RWP state that only projects that include water supply, sanitation, handwashing facilities and hygiene awareness as per MHMS standards can be considered as complete. This implies the use of the Engineering standards, CE guidelines, CLTS toolkit, policy etc. ; Comment was made that the CE guide is too focused on (big) piped supplies and not applicable to smaller say rainwater projects, though it was argued that regardless of the type of system, some community management must be set up; The CE guide may require adjusting none the less; Discussion followed whether this means that CLTS must be done in each village where a water supply is being constructed: on the one hand the 3-pillar approach (water, sanitation and hygiene) is acknowledged as the optimal way to achieving health benefits, but on the other hand world-wide experience has shown that a subsidized water project significantly reduces the chance of success for the no-subsidy CLTS approach. Red Cross argued that the community is not told that they will only get the water supply if they are NOD (i.e. which would mean the wrong incentive for wanting a toilet). A conclusion of the discussion was not reached; A completion certificate (with photo) is required as evidence of completed projects. This means that a way will have to be found to certify that the community has access to water according to the Engineering Standards. A TWG will be organized to deal with the matter further; 8. Presentation on new NDMO disaster management structure: Vini (UNDP) presented new plans for disaster management in SI, resulting from the lessons learnt from the April Floods in 2014; WASH will now fall on both the Humanitarian and Social Services branches depending on the exact activity; A simulation exercise may be staged later in the year (unless a real disaster happens beforehand) Presentation circulated to WSG; 9. Baseline dissemination tour: 6 provinces now completed with Choiseul, Western and Central Islands yet to do; turn out at the provincial meetings was good and greater level of understanding and willingness to take 4

5 action achieved, as the baseline study results were linked with the changes in the sector of the recent years (the policy, Strategic Plan, Engineering Standards, CE Guidelines, CLTS etc).; The National results of the baseline will be put on the website ( 10. CLTS presentation (Red Cross): Red Cross presented their finding after working on CLTS for 5 months; Presentation circulated to WSG group and will be placed on website; Village leaders were triggered before pre-triggering: question was raised which village leaders were selected: Red Cross committee member to bring 2 more, one of which must be female; 11. RWASH website: is the resource for the sector: what should we put on it? Partner reports (if SI specific), and presentations but not the WSG minutes as this may contain information on funding; 12. AOB: Invite from WaterAid for the 27 th of July will be sent soon to discuss a sector analyses which has been conducted, looking at 5 sector foundations/blockages; ACTION POINTS: ACTION POINT ACTOR(S) 1 L&L/UNICEF to update WASH database L&L & UNICEF 2 TWG completion certificate Piter 3 Baseline National result + Red Cross CLTS presentation on website Isabel 4 5