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Environmental Health Initiative Kick-Off Meeting: Scaling Up Proven Strategies for Sustainable Impact

This presentation outlines the vision and goals of the Environmental Health Initiative (SEH) focusing on priority countries and key program areas. It emphasizes scaling proven interventions in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) to achieve sustainable impact through partnerships and innovative approaches. The discussion covers the importance of healthy households, community participation, integration of effective technologies, and capacity building for service delivery. The presentation also highlights the role of cross-cutting elements like behavior change, private sector engagement, and financing models. Through collaboration with partners and stakeholders, SEH aims to address global challenges related to WASH, HIV/AIDS integration, gender equality, and knowledge management. The presentation sets expectations for Year One activities, including launching initiatives in multiple countries, establishing advisory groups, and strengthening partnerships to advance environmental health goals.

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Environmental Health Initiative Kick-Off Meeting: Scaling Up Proven Strategies for Sustainable Impact

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  1. SEH: Getting off to a Good StartMerri Weinger, USAIDSEH Kick-Off Meeting, November 3, 2010

  2. This presentation will: • Briefly review our vision for SEH in key program areas • Discuss priority countries and making overtures to Missions • Highlight expectations for Year One

  3. SEH: So who came up with that name? • Healthy Households and Communities as end-products of EH Initiative • What is a Healthy Household? • Supportive Environments • Policy • Infrastructure/Institutions • Financing • Community organization/participation

  4. WASH and IAQ • Integration not essential- but encourage cross-fertilization and learning • Cross-cutting elements include: • Hardware • Behavior change strategy • Private sector entrepreneurs • Creative financing

  5. Scale and Sustainability • Working at scale as cross-cutting theme • Define scale • Aim for Sustainable Service Delivery

  6. Sub-Objective 1: Increasing Availability and Use of Proven Interventions • Scaling up sanitation activities in at least 10 countries • In partnership with other donors, private sector, civil society • Including demand creation and availability and use of quality sanitation products • With sustainable models for financing sanitation product and service delivery • With strong evidence base and documentation • Support for USAID’s Sanitation Working Group

  7. Scaling up Proven Technologies for Water Supply • Cost-effective approaches for communities outside piped networks • Implement water supply development activities (e.g. rainwater harvesting, protecting wells, etc.) • Multiple Use Water Systems • Build capacity of small scale WASH providers in private sector • Effective interaction with other country activities

  8. Scaling up Proven Technologies for Promotion of Improved Water Quality • Focus on models for getting right product into consumer’s hands, e.g. filters • Expansion of distribution channels for underserved populations

  9. Support for PPPHW and efforts to take handwashing to scale in at least one country Handwashing with soap/handwashing stations as core component of sanitation initiatives Scaling up Handwashing

  10. Indoor Air Quality: More Than Cookstoves • Develop framework for impact for IAQ including • Access to appropriate cookstoves • Behavior change approaches • Enabling environment

  11. Sub-objective 2: WASH & HIV/AIDS Integration • Increase visibility of sanitation in Basic Care Package • Go beyond home-based care • Focus on Technical Working Groups- OVC, F&N • Increase advocacy with OGAC/USG partners • Global Community of Practice

  12. Other Priorities • WASH/IAQ & Education • WASH & Nutrition • WASH & IAQ and MCH • Especially sanitation • In collaboration with MCHIP

  13. Sub-objective 3:Partnerships • Maximize potential of SEH team and resource partners • Partner with other key donors • Foster public-private partnerships

  14. Innovation Innovation = Technology AND new ways of doing business

  15. Capacity Building • Creating/collecting tools for capacity building • Sanitation- CLTS/Sanitation Marketing • Building capacity of the private sector • IAQ • Identify • What are the necessary skills? • Methodologies for skill-building, including training • Where are the gaps?

  16. Gender • Gender as visible cross-cutting element of project • Include gender-specific objectives/ indicators/outcomes

  17. Knowledge Management • Build on existing KM investments • Environmental Health Web-Site • HIP • USAID Water Team web-site • Develop innovative and expanded approach to sharing, exchanging knowledge • Using creative learning approaches

  18. Priority Countries • Reach agreement on most successful ways to approach countries • USAID • USAID + SEH • SEH • Ideally by March, 2011

  19. Possible Priority Countries • Uganda • Bangladesh • DRC • Haiti • Malawi • Indonesia • Benin

  20. Possible Priority Countries • Madagascar • WASH in Schools in Zambia • WSP/Gates countries (Ethiopia, Tanzania, India, Indonesia) • Nepal (?) • Mali (?) • Nigeria (?)

  21. Possible Priority Countries:TA to Bilaterals • Ghana • Afghanistan • Sudan • Liberia • Senegal • Tajikistan • Timor • Pakistan

  22. SEH:Year One Expectations • SEH activities launched in at least 3 countries • Confirm key partnerships with other donors/implementing partners • Identify at least 1 sanitation-at-scale country • Key integration activities launched • Establish agreed Advisory Groups (e.g., IAQ, innovation, etc.)

  23. Support from USAID Environmental Health Team • Rochelle Rainey: WASH specialist, with special focus on water quality • Jay Graham: WASH specialist, with special focus on sanitation and IAQ • Tony Kolb: Urban Advisor and WASH specialist

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