Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI)

1. Global Water and Sanitation Initiative (GWSI) ‘Contributing to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by scaling-up established capacities’

2. The Problem • 1.1 Billion lack access to safe water & 2.4 Billion lack basic sanitation • 4 Million die annually (80%<5yrs) • 30% of common recurrent diseases are WatSan related • 100 Billion US$ productivity lost annually • 4 out of 8 MDG’s focus on WatSan needs

3. The Response • Federation commitment (S2010, WatSan Policy, GWSI) • UN Declaration – ‘access to safe water & sanitation, a human right’ • UN Commitment – CSD & MDG’s • 2nd UN Decade for Water 2005-15 All of the above contributes to an increased global momentum to ‘increase sustainable WatSan coverage’

4. WatSan Activities 1993-2006 2.5 Million People served by Developmental WatSan North-East Russia Secretariat Geneva Switzerland Slovakia Kazakhastan Hungary Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatia Uzbekistan Albania Azerbaijan North Korea Macedonia Turkey Tajikistan Syria Iran Afghanistan China Iraq Nepal Algeria Pakistan Jordan Bangladesh Cuba India Myanmar Haiti Belize Laos Dominican Rep Eritrea Guatemala Honduras Thailande Philippines Sudan Panama El Salvador Guinea Bissau Active in over 35 Countries Djibutia Cambodia Nicaragua Vietnam Venezuela Somalia Nigeria Costa Rica Liberia . Cote d'Ivoire Malaysia Ethiopia Sri Lanka Uganda Colombia D.R. Congo Kenya Rwanda Papua Indonesia New Guinea Tanzania Angola Comores Fiji East Timor Peru Malawi Zambia Mozambique Bolivia Zimbabwe Namibia Paraguay Madagascar Botswana Swaziland Lesotho Argentina 6.5 Million People served with Emergency WatSan

5. Federation WatSan Beneficiaries 5 M Developmental 9 M Emergency 2.5 M Developmental 6.5 M Emergency Emergency WatSan : Projected increase in demand and delivery Developmental WatSan : Scaling-up with the GWSI

6. Lessons Learned - conclusions • Well established WatSan Disaster Response capacity – demand increasing – Federation recognised as a leader in this field – partnerships with WHO, Unicef, OXFAM Etc. • Further capacity needed - maintaining of standards & HR’s • Developmental programmes increasing – many as follow-on to Disaster Response, now 35% of WatSan activities • Need for better coordinated and common approach – increase resource opportunities/partnerships – increase impact on MDG’s

7. Established Methodologies • Led by ‘software’(i.e. community participation, community fundraising and training for O&M, behavioural change in hygiene practices)

8. Established Methodologies • Appropriate ‘hardware’(i.e. simple low-cost technology to enable community level sustainability)

9. GWSI – Progress • Set of GWSI criteria identified • EU-ACP Water Facility bids (Austrians, British, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, and Spanish RCS’s for Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Haiti, Dom.Republic, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.) Cost/Ben: 20 Euro • WatSan and PLWHA Pilot in Kenya (Nestle, Procter and Gamble, British RCS • GWSI Information booklet and project design checklist • GWSI ‘software’ booklet/toolkit to be published