Developing a Philippine Water Supply Roadmap an IWRM Approach

1. Developing a Philippine Water Supply Roadmapan IWRM Approach by Ramon Alikpala Executive Director National Water Resources Board November 2007

2. From 1990 to 2005, the government successfully provided water for an additional 23.04 Million Filipinos; however.. • The population increased by 24.5 Million over the same period Meeting the MDG Water & Sanitation targets is a precondition to addressing all the other Millennium Development Goals.

3. 2005 1990 1995 2000 60.7 68.6 76.5 85.2 Population Growth Average Annual Growth Rate 1990-2000 : 2.34% or 1.8 million per year

4. Households with Access to Safe Water Supply 85.2 76.5 68.6 80% 81.3% 60.7 67.35 62.27 73% 53.57 2015 MDG Target: 87% 44.31 2010 MTPDP Target: 92%-96% 2010 ASEAN Target 87% Source: National Statistics Office - 1990-2000 data from census of Pop. and Housing; 1998, 1999 and 2002 data from Annual Poverty Indicators Survey

5. Households with Access to Sanitation 85.2 86% 76.5 68.6 73.36 60.7 60.66 58.85 67.6% 2015 MDG Target: 84% 41.03 2010 MTPDP Target: 86%-91% 2010 ASEAN Target 84% Source: National Statistics Office - 1990-2000 data from census of Pop. and Housing; 1998, 1999 and 2002 data from Annual Poverty Indicators Survey

6. Summary of Water Supply and Sanitation (WSS) Issues • Institutional fragmentation • Inadequate Support for Rural Water Supply • Low Tariff and Cost-Recovery Level • Low Performance of Water Utilities • Weak and Fragmented Regulatory Framework • Sector Investment and Financing • Lack of WSS Sector Information

7. In 2006, the GTZ (German Technical Cooperation Agency) answered the call to assist the Philippine Government develop a Water Supply Roadmap using IWRM principles.

8. Scope of Work • Synchronize efforts to meet 2010 targets • Develop an integrated water supply planning program; • Develop an investment program for the water supply sector; • Develop a database and monitoring program that will ensure achievement of water supply targets

9. Scope of Work • Identify long-term institutional reforms • Identify/institutionalize a Water Supply Apex Body • Develop a program to strengthen regulation of WSPs • Provide a technical and institutional support program to assist WSPs • Develop capacity building programs for WSPs

10. Long Term Goals2025 • Institutional Strengthening • Capacity Development • Strategic Alliance Building

11. 2025 Institutional Strengthening • Effective Policies and institutions with an integrated economic and resource regulatory framework and strong and coordinated national and local structures and mechanisms 2010 • Harmonized and mainstreamed institutional framework in a decentralized and enabling policy environment • Strengthened national regulatory framework and harmonized guidelines for economic and resource regulation of the water supply sector • Strengthened local structures and mechanisms playing their role as effective coordinating nodes of national initiatives

12. 2025 Capacity Development • LGUs adequately capacitated for policy formulation, planning, monitoring, evaluation and fiscal management, WSPs efficiently and financially sustainable and National Government Agencies equipped to provide sustained support services 2010 • Enhanced LGU capacity in local policy formulation, water services planning, monitoring and evaluation and fiscal management • Efficient and financially sustainable Water Service Providers (WSPs) • Improved National Government support for LGUs and WSPs

13. 2025 Strategic Alliance Building • Water supply sector nurtured by strong stakeholder participation, multi-actor collaboration and champions in the legislative and executive bodies of national and local government units. 2010 • Empowered communities effectively participating in water supply sector development • Champions in the executive and legislative bodies of the national government and local government units bearing the water agenda into the higher order of priorities in policy making and programming • Effective multi-actor collaboration mechanisms