Water and Sanitation Vision for Afghanistan

1. Afghanistan- Vision Long term vision • Encourage additional Government budget allocation to increase safe drinking water from 2% in 2013 to a minimum of 5% by 2016. • Achieve universal access to sanitation and eliminate open defecation nationwide by 2025. Focus for 2014-2016 • - Enhance coordination with sector ministries and attract political commitments for greater financial support to the sector with specific budget lines for WASH. • - Using newly established MIS/GIS system to prioritize un-served population and vulnerable groups. • - Finalize O&M strategy and M&E framework to ensure sustainability of WASH services . Water: 45.5% have access to improved water, but off-target for MDG Sanitation: Good progress 28.5% use improved toilets 17.7% practice O.D. Inequalities: poorest households are 36 times more likely to practice O.D. than richest

2. Challenges • Key bottlenecks • Security and access to the most deprived villages. • Low capacity of both the government and private sector at subnational level. • Poor waste management practices and inadequate sanitation and sewage systems in urban areas. • - Diverse natural disasters and continuous • droughts. • - inadequate funding especially for sanitation. • - weak political commitmen.t • Poor coordination among the sector ministries. Tools used: 2013 GLAAS

3. Progress on 2012 commitments Key achievement areas • The sector MIS/GIS system and M&E framework is in place. • Afghan CLTS context and hygiene promotion has given promising results; is now rolled out to 50% of the country, 670 villages declared as ODF to date. • National drinking water quality standard has been developed and water quality testing assurance and mapping has been implemented. Areas of slow achievement - Development and functional O&M strategy for WASH services - Funding and investment by donors and international partners Carry-over to 2014 • Capacity development strategy • Long term strategic plan for the sector • Continuation and strengthening of the SWA country working group

4. 2014 Committments Policy and plans Coordination Finance • Strengthen sector partnerships with civil society, national and international NGO's, sector ministries, development partners, private sector and universities for joint advocacy, better planning and coordination of WASH interventions. • Formulation of Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction Framework for safe drinking water and sanitation programs; Formulation of Framework for Environmental and Social Safeguard for safe drinking water and sanitation programs • Develop and implement an evidence based advocacy strategy for increasing of WASH sector investment from 2% in 2013 to 5% in 2016 for WASH within the GoIRA budget. Equality Sustainability Equality Policy and plans Capacity Policy and plans • Develop a hygiene and sanitation strategy - Implemented in at least 10 provinces through comprehensive CLTS/sanitation promotion programme and document baseline/progress and learning. • Develop and testing of a comprehensive strategy for O&M and community water safety planning in 4 provinces using an effective approach to reduce risks of contamination of drinking water from source to consumption • Use existing capacity needs assessments and studies (WB, KPGM, DACAAR, Sitan, etc) to identify WASH capacity building needs and develop a capacity building strategy and 2 year action plan