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Sustainable Water and Sanitation Vision for Universal Access and Equitable Coverage

Laos PDR envisions achieving equitable and universal access to water and sanitation by 2015. Challenges include lack of national policy, limited resources, inequalities, and poor monitoring. Key areas for improvement include coordination, financing, decentralization, and health programming. The focus is on scaling up sanitation and hygiene efforts, enhancing human resources, and increasing funding. Commitments for 2014 include policy formulation, increased budget allocation, and capacity building to ensure sustainable service delivery.

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Sustainable Water and Sanitation Vision for Universal Access and Equitable Coverage

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  1. Lao PDR - Vision Long term vision • - Equitable and universal access: national coverage water 80% and sanitation 60% by 2015 (NSEDP) • - Alignmentwith poverty eradication outreach • - Improve HR and institutional strengthening for delivery and O&M Focus for 2014-2016 • - Improved sector coordination and collaboration • - Increase funding for water supply and ODF • - Concentrate on underserved remote and poor Water: 70% have access to improved water, but urban/rural divide Sanitation: 62% use improved toilets, lower rural coverage where 45% practice O.D. Inequalities: WASH access lower in South & for ethnic groups; strong rich/ educated - poor gap

  2. Challenges • Key bottlenecks • - Lack of a national overarching WASH policy • - Limited human resource capacity for implementation of WASH projects, service delivery and compliance • - Inadequate annual budget allocations; • - Inadequate ability to scale up rural sanitation and hygiene promotion; • - weak Monitoring and Evaluation capacity Tools used: LSIS 2011-2012 NSEDP, NGPES, MNFSAP, IWA

  3. Progress on 2012 commitments Key achievement areas - Coordination: among sector agencies and partners  WASH TWG - Financing: SWA HLM accelerated action plan and priority setting - Decentralization: through prioritization in district development funds for basic social services  MoHworkplan - WASH in Health Programming and in Schools Areas of slow achievement - Scaling up of sanitation and hygiene: more trained mobilizers (for CLTS), private sector for sanitation materials; promotion takes time & effort Carry-over to 2014: - Coordination: Joint Sector Review and setting up a M&E framework; - Financing: to urge MoF to raise budget allocation for rural WASH

  4. 2014 Commitments Policy and Plans Visibility Finance Formulation of an overarching policy on WASH for both urban and rural areas by 2016; Open Defecation will be reduced to 35% in rural areas by 2016 and synergy with the Multisectoral Food and Nutrition Security Action Plan Increase the annual bud-get allocation for rural WASH to 30% of MoH budget and create a separate budget line for rural WASH Sustaina- bility Equality Equality Capacity Service Delivery Coordination MOH and MPWT to raise institutional capacity by increasing its human resources at least by 15%, by 2016 By 2016, access to sustainable, equitable and safe water supply raised to 70% in rural communities Strengthening WASH Sector Coordination: hold Annual Joint Sector Review and monitor agreed sector indicators

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