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12th World Toilet Summit: Scaling up Dignity for All

Join us at the 12th World Toilet Summit to address the global sanitation crisis and promote safe accessible sanitation for all. Collaborate, develop strategies, and celebrate progress towards achieving dignity for all.

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12th World Toilet Summit: Scaling up Dignity for All

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  1. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS BRIEFING ON THE 12th WORLD TOILET SUMMIT 27 NOVEMBER 2012 BY DIRECTOR-GENERAL

  2. Presentation outline • Background of the 12th World Toilet Summit • Objectives of the 12th World Toilet Summit • Conference proceedings • International trends of Sanitation • International Bodies of Sanitation • Legislation and Regulations • Departmental service delivery trends • Partnerships • Departmental Focus

  3. Background of the 12th World Toilet Day • The inaugural World Toilet Summit was held in Singapore in 2002. • Over the past 10 years the summit been held across the globe in Seoul, Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Belfast, Moscow, Bangkok, New Delhi, Macau and Philadelphia. • With the voices of influential leaders of the world coming together, the World Toilet Summit brings an opportunity to bring hope to the 40% of the world’s population needing proper sanitation. • This annually event aims to bring together non-profit organizations, government bodies, academia and other industry players to address the sanitation crisis that affects 2.6 billion people globally. • The 12th World Toilet Summit, The 1st for Africa, hosted by SATO and FPD, in December 2012, have been designed to muster the individual and collective minds of academia, legal professionals, technical specialist, industry leaders, gender advocacy, civil society, governments, educators and all other role players in the fields of sanitation, education, health and hygiene and human rights.

  4. Specific objectives of the 12th World Toilet Summit • Increase collaboration in an attempt to achieve the universal goal of “Dignity for All” in terms of all aspects related to the provision of safe accessible sanitation for all people, by developing the Outcomes Based Strategy; • To develop a Document Of Principles that will facilitate and promote the collaboration of all relevant participants including the development of the World Toilet Workplan - 2015 to promote the achievement of agreed goals, progress monitoring and reporting with measurable outcomes; • Establishing a Working Committee, representing different fields of expertise, to mobilize action, track progress and report achievements; • Acquire buy-in and support from key but often sidelined stakeholders and interested parties, including the media and civil society; • Celebrate progress made on development of improved legislation towards proper regulations, monitoring and evaluation on sanitation related services. • The theme of this year’s summit: “ African Sanitation: Scaling up Dignity for All?”

  5. Conference Schedule - Day 1 Track 1- SANITATION & HUMAN RIGHTS Sub-theme 1: UN 2010 Declaration of Water and Sanitation as a Human Rights. Sub-theme 2: The importance Community Led Sanitation Mobilization • Morning Session: Opening Ceremony • Opening remarks- Ms N.W. Mandela • Speech by Guest of Honour: Minister T. Sexwale • Progress report • Award Ceremony: Minister T. Sexwale • Tea Break • 5 plenary sessions of 15 minutes each • Panel Discussion to deal all issues as highlighted in the plenary sessions (30minutes). • Lunch • Summit workshop of 3 tracks • Track 1- Sanitation in the context of Human Rights • Track 2- Community Led Sanitation Approach • Track 3- Sanitation as a business and a demand driven approach Cocktail Event

  6. Conference Schedule - Day 2 Sub-theme 2: Gender in Sanitation : Domestos Day- Collaborative Structures and Partners. • Morning Session: Welcoming note by Jack Sim the founder of the World Toilet Summit • 2 plenary sessions of 30 minutes each on importance of PPP: scaling up of sustainable living plan and Importance of sustainable Health and Hygiene Practices (community and schools). School based programmes in Africa • Tea Break • 2 plenary sessions of 30 and 20 minutes – Science at the core of sustainable sanitation and Role of Gender in Sanitation. • Panel Discussion to deal all issues as highlighted in the plenary sessions (40minutes). • Lunch • Summit workshop of 3 tracks • Track 1- Sustainable H&H Practices • Track 2- African Sanitation Challenges • Track 3- Behavioural change initiative for better sanitation • Evening Session- 5 abstract presentations • Wrap-up/WTO Durban Declaration Networking Cocktail sponsored by Domestos .

  7. Conference Schedule - Day 3 TRACK 2: CLTs, HEALTH & HYGIENE Sub-theme 1: The importance of Sustainable H&H Practices in schools and domestic. • Morning Session: Recap of Day 2 • 5 plenary sessions of 15 minutes each on importance of PPP: scaling up of sustainable living plan and Importance of sustainable Health and Hygiene Practices (community and schools). School based programmes in Africa • Tea Break • 2 abstract presentations • Closing Speech and Handover ceremony • Filed trips- Sanitation for schools

  8. SanitationInternational trends • In September 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) amongst others, to reduce poverty and improve the health and well-being of communities; • In 2002, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, sanitation was included as one of the MDG targets. • In 2002 South Africa hosted the first Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference, which sought to highlight the strategic importance and benefits of adequate provision of sanitation and to put mechanisms in place to accelerate the rate of delivery in Africa. • In November 2004 in the “Dakar Declaration” the Sanitation and Hygiene Week was introduced at the Global WASH Forum as a constant reminder for many other countries to fast-track efforts towards meeting their MDGs, • In 2008 South Africa hosted the second African Sanitation and Hygiene Conference where African Ministers responsible for Water made a political declaration known as the “The eThekwini Declaration” which committed all member states to create an enabling environment towards meeting the Sanitation MDGs. • It was also aimed at assessing achievement of the acceleration of basic sanitation delivery to reach the MDGs and sharing of lessons and challenges in line with 2008 being declared as an international Year of Sanitation by the United Nations. • In 2011, the 3rd AfricaSan was held in Kigali, Rwanda to assess the progress made in terms of eThekwini Declaration in sanitation provision in Africa. • South Africa chaired the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCOW) from June 2010 to June 2012. • The increasing attention given to the provision of acceptable, safe and dignified sanitation to all residents of Africa has been a particular highlight of the years 2001 to 2011. • Achievement of the sanitation MDG in Africa had been decelerated by civil unrest, but governments, NGOs and civil societies across the continent have committed themselves to the goal of achievement of universal access to hygienic sanitation facilities, the practice of safe hygiene, and the promotion of human dignity in the provision of sanitation.

  9. SanitationInternational Bodies • South Africa, as a global actor has a moral obligation become involved in international obligations, agreements and processes and influences decisions taken locally, regionally and nationally, and draws on the skills and resources of a diversity of people and institutions at many levels • The importance of involving both women and men in the management of water and sanitation has been recognized at the global level, starting from the 1977 United Nations Water Conference at Mar del Plata, the International Drinking Water and Sanitation Decade (1981-90) and the International Conference on Water and the Environment in Dublin (January 1992), which explicitly recognizes the central role of women in the provision, management and safeguarding of water. • Involvement of women in water management in Agenda 21 (paragraph 18.70f), and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation2 (paragraph 25). • The International Decade for Action, ‘Water for Life’ (2005-2015), calls for women’s participation and involvement in water-related development efforts. • The Water for Life Decade coincides with the timeframe for meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

  10. Legislation and Regulations • Access to basic sanitation is a Constitutional right (Sec 24 of the Constitution) • The Water Services Act, 1997( Act no 108 of 1997) ensures the realization of this right • The Constitution: Section 10 of the constitution (act 108 of 1996) acknowledges the inherent dignity and right of everyone and that their dignity should be respected and protected. • The Water Services Act, 1997 sec. 11 (1) stipulates that every Water Services Authority has a duty to all consumers or potential consumers in its area of jurisdiction to progressively ensure effective, affordable, economic and sustainable access to water services. • The Local Government Transition Act, 1993 (Act no.209 of 1993), refers to WSA as any municipality, District or Rural, responsible for ensuring access to water services (i.e. water supply services and sanitation services).

  11. Legislation and Regulations • The Strategic Framework for Water Services approved by Cabinet in 2003 guides the implementation of water and sanitation services and sets targets for the country in respect of water and sanitation service Local Government • In terms of Schedule 4 Part B of the Constitution, 1996(Act no.108 of 1996) water and sanitation services limited to potable water supply systems and domestic waste-water and sewage disposal systems are the responsibilities of local government

  12. SANITATION MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS • Reduce by half the proportion of the population which does not have access to basic sanitation by 2015: • In 1994 the sanitation backlog was 5,2 m household reduced to 4,8m in 2001 • In April 2012 this backlog was at 2,2 million households • South Africa is well on track to meet the sanitation MDG target ( source DWA:WSNIS) 12

  13. Departmental service delivery trends

  14. Departmental service delivery trends • To establish , review , update and adopt national sanitation and hygiene policies: • At national level a task team comprising of all the relevant sector Departments, WRC, Civil Society and SALGA , formed to provide oversight to the revision process of White Paper on Basic Household Sanitation , 2001. • National Health and Hygiene Education strategy was developed and approved in 2007 • Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) programme is implemented to profile sanitation and for behavioural change in schools and communities • MSTT establishment to identify performance barriers in provisioning of sanitation, implementation gaps and improvement strategies to ensure continuous improvement in communities.

  15. Departmental service delivery trends • To recognise the gender and youth aspect Sanitation Job creation initiatives (construction and Health and Hygiene) for 9761 people since 2009 to date have changed livelihoods of South Africans. Of the number 63% is female. • Sanitation job creation and youth empowerment programme ensures that; • Training of youth and women is prioritised; • Youth and women benefit in jobs created through implementation of sanitation projects ; • Before any sanitation implementation project youth and women are part of project steering committee and are involved in decision making • Special sanitation grant (RHIP) to address water and sanitation in rural areas is currently implemented

  16. Departmental Focus • Provide adequate funding to reduce sanitation service delivery protests; • Monitoring and Evaluation sanitation implementation; • Support municipalities in the sanitation implementation; • Robust implementation of Health and Hygiene Strategy; • Implementation of MSTT findings; • Alignment sanitation strategies, framework, guidelines and policies with the sector; • Reviving of National Sanitation Task Team; • Strengthening of collaborative structures nationally and regionally including CBOs, NGOs and CSOs to minimize fragmentation; • Promotion of integrated planning in the sector to curtail double dipping; • Encouragement of community involvement in municipalities in the selection of technological options; • Beefing up information dissemination in the municipalities; • Support municipalities in operation and maintenance and sludge management; • Guidance, advise and monitoring of Waste Water Treatment Plants; Departmental Focus

  17. THANK YOU 1/2/2020 17

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