WSP – East Asia & the Pacific: FY07 Achievements and Highlights for FY08

1. WSP – East Asia & the Pacific:FY07 Achievements and Highlights for FY08 Presentation for the 8th Council Meeting, Amsterdam, 4-5 June 2007 Almud Weitz, Regional Team Leader, WSP-EAP

2. Contents of Presentation • East Asia’s MDG Context • WSP-EAP Program Highlights • FY07 Achievements • Highlights for FY08 • Challenges Ahead

3. East Asia’s MDG Context • Region is broadly on track to meet overall poverty reduction goal….BUT: • Wide disparities among countries in reaching specific goals • Except for the Philippines and Vietnam, all other WSP-EAP countries unlikely to achieve water goal • None of them will reach sanitation goal

4. Current Likelihood of Achieving MDGs in EAP Laos 4 MM Philippines 21 MM Cambodia 12 MM Vietnam 47 MM High coverage, goals achievable Currently “on track” to achieve goals partly Unlikely to reach the goals Indonesia 104 MM Insufficient data • 145 million have no access to improved water supplies • 1 billion have no access to basic sanitation

5. East Asia’s MDG Context • WSP-EAP Program Highlights • FY07 Achievements • Highlights for FY08 • Challenges Ahead

6. WSP-EAP Program Highlights • Dramatic increase in work program: FY07 activity rose 62% as compared to FY06, 179% up on FY05 • Strong focus on sanitation and hygiene • handwashing with soap initiatives, city-wide sanitation strategies

7. Innovative regional programs such as Sanitation and Water Partnership for the Mekong Region (SAWAP) • nationally-led and inter-country initiatives, including 1 (2) provinces in China • Cross-regional adaptation of successful new approaches • community-led total sanitation

8. East Asia’s MDG Context • WSP-EAP Program Highlights • FY07 Achievements • Highlights for FY08 • Challenges Ahead

9. ‘Bottom up’ Sanitation and Hygiene: FY07 Achievements • Indonesia - replication of CLTS, coupled with sanitation marketing, in 48 districts nationwide • Vietnam - National Handwashing Initiative to scale up, starting with consumer research study, utilizing PPPs and social marketing

10. FY07 Achievements, Cont. • Communications for Reform: • Communications network set up in all 5 focus countries • Laos - IEC materials on hygiene promotion designed by 14 ethnic groups in 4 provinces for dissemination in their local communities

11. FY07 Achievements, Cont. • Decentralization and Governance: • The Philippines - capacity-building of 11 public and private water utilities to enable improved access to financing • Indonesia – under the Water and Sanitation Policy and Action Planning Program (WASPOLA), implementation of the community-based water and sanitation policy has now reached 49 districts in 9 provinces

12. FY07 Achievements, Cont. • Indonesia - ISSDP pilot cities: • production of white books/city sanitation strategies • broad-based awareness campaigns, and a sanitation declaration signed by all 6 mayor (Blitar declaration) • ‘city-up’ pressure on national government • approach being replicated by other cities and projects in the country

13. FY07 Achievements, Cont. • Domestic Private Sector Participation: • Cambodia - development of interim licensing regime for small private water suppliers • Laos - support to urban private sector providers • The Philippines - feasibility study on financing for private and public small utilities • Vietnam - embarking on leading an initiative on mobilizing the domestic private sector for water supply and sanitation under SAWAP

14. East Asia’s MDG Context • WSP-EAP Program Highlights • FY07 Achievements • Highlights for FY08 • Challenges Ahead

15. Highlights for FY08 • Consolidation of progress on the initiatives (ISSDP, SAWAP, SUSEA, TSSM), delivery of first measurable results, scaling up • East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation (EASAN) in Xi’an, China, Nov. 2007 • Involving 16 East Asian countries • Co-organized by WSP, WHO and Unicef with financial support from AusAID, DFID and Sida • Economics of Sanitation Initiative – evidence for advocacy to increase investment

16. East Asia’s MDG Context • WSP-EAP Program Highlights • FY07 Achievements • Highlights for FY08 • Challenges Ahead

17. Challenges Ahead • Translating sanitation policy reform and local government capacity building assistance into actual increase in financing and action on the ground • Achieving better monitoring of impacts • Managing a fast-growing work program and increasing staff, and finding suitable staff • Working with an increasing regionalized program without appropriate funding (project funds mostly) • Getting myself up to speed yesterday

18. Thank you