The Mutual Accountability Mechanism and the Sector Ministers Meeting

1. Thank you for joining. The SWA webinar: The Mutual Accountability Mechanism and the Sector Ministers Meetingwill be starting momentarily.

2. The Mutual Accountability Mechanism and the Sector Ministers Meeting

3. The Sanitation and Water for All framework and the Mutual Accountability Mechanism

5. Why the Mutual Accountability Mechanism? Accountability is a Guiding Principle & a Collaborative Behaviour • Collective, multi-stakeholder action • Global sharing of priorities and ideas • Reporting on the SDGs

6. Mutual Accountability Mechanism

7. What is the updated Mutual Accountability Mechanism? Updated Mutual Accountability Mechanism (2018 - ) • All SWA partners make commitments • National planning and review cycles are the basis for creating commitments • Multi-stakeholder process essential • Commitments drawn from national targets and milestones • Reflects the SDGs

8. How does the Mutual Accountability Mechanism link to national planning and review processes? National multi-stakeholder process • 3-5 year plans with targets and milestones • Governments choose 2-3 country-level Commitments • Timeline for achieving Commitments • Each constituency or partner contributes commitments relevant to the government commitment • Multi-national partners join in making a national commitment • Multi-national partners can also make a global commitment >> Choose commitments > Present commitments > Implementation > Review commitments > Report back > Discussion & learning >>

9. Making commitments

10. Example of a National Government Commitment: Rural sanitation strategy Development of a rural sanitation strategy targeting poorest districts by XX External support agency commitments: • Align funding and priorities to the strategy and target financing to poorest districts CSO commitments: • Identify approaches that will improve sanitation in poorest and hardest to reach areas   Research and Learning Institutions’ commitments: • Research into other countries’ sanitation strategies and make relevant proposals Private sector commitments: • Engagement with all stakeholders in outlining the role and responsibility of private sector actors in developing and delivering the Rural sanitation strategy.

11. Commitments to Leave No-one Behind 2019 UN focus on Leave No-one Behind, reflected in the focus of the SWA Sector Ministers Meeting The first Ngor commitment focusses on the elimination of inequalities Poverty, gender, ethnic groups, age, disability, geographic areas could be central to your commitments

12. Global level action – the Sector Ministers Meeting and beyond Catarina de Albuquerque, CEO, SWA

13. What happens at the global level? SWA Global High-level Meetings • Presentation of Commitments • External Support Agencies make global Commitments • All partners report back on previously made Commitments

14. The Mutual Accountability Mechanism at the SMM Plenary session on the Mutual Accountability Mechanism Commitments made by countries and other stakeholders will be on display at the SMM

15. Implementing the Mutual Accountability Mechanism: The pioneer countries and beyond

16. Implementing the Mutual Accountability Mechanism Pioneer countries are implementing the Mutual Accountability Mechanism, we are using this experience to help inform the wider secretariat of the challenges and opportunities afforded by the Mutual Accountability Mechanism. We will hear from them now. Other (non-pioneer) countries have already started making commitments.

17. Commitments template

18. Commitments template COUNTRY NAME: Constituency / Institution Commitment (including target date): Was this commitment made through a participatory process including other constituencies?: Indicator and Source (optional): Is there a link to one of the government commitments?:

19. The Mutual Accountabilty Mechanism and the Sector Ministers’ Meeting

20. The Mutual Accountability Mechanism Preparing for the Sanitation and Water for All Sector Minister Meeting Emma Mbalame Director of Water Supply and Sanitation, Malawi

21. Plan of action in preparation for SMM Road map and multi-stakeholder processes

22. Agreed priorities and commitmentscommitment no:1 Government • Review the National Sanitation Policy to consider issues of the poorest but also the whole sanitation value chain by December 2019 • Development of Financing Mechanisms and strategy on Leave No One Behind (with plans to base it on the Last Mile Study Results which Malawi undertook through National ODF Taskforce) by November 2019 Donor commitment • Align funding and priorities to the strategy and target financing to the poorest and marginalized groups of people Develop funding packages that target the identified marginalized as per the study CSO commitment: • Identify approaches that will improve sanitation in poorest and hardest to reach areas and groups of people

23. Progress and achievements after MAM • JSR Annual Meeting in December 2018- (DPs, Academia and CSOs contribution) • The last Mile study (To identify characteristics of a population segment in ODF status TAs that still have not adopted 100% habits of latrine usage and Propose practical strategies that will be implemented to allow this segment enable TAs attain 100% ODF coverage. • Joint Review of the ODF strategy 2008 to National Hygiene and sanitation strategy. This has led to gaps in the ODF strategy dealing with marginalized to be filled.

24. Why The last Mile • Despite communities being declared open defaecation free (ODF) status, some households (less than 6%) still remained without toilets (MDHS 2016, ODF strategy 2011 to 2016). • There is need to have all households in a community to have and use latrines in order to achieve maximum health benefits • The last mile survey identified the characteristics of these groups and determined why these households fail to own and use sanitation and hygiene facilities.

25. Challenges and how they have been resolved • Difficult to get all key sector leads together on one table consistently to come up with an agreed plan of action and execute the undertakings. • Accountability issues. Sector Partners holding government accountable, but difficult to hold CSOs accountable. • Difficulties to ensure that programs and projects being implemented with different prayers in the sector align to the sector plan and strategy. • Challenge in aligning the country sector plans to the SDG 6 target.

26. Opportunities provided by the Mutual Accountability Mechanism • Brings greater legitimacy to the outcomes of national joint planning processes through a link to global accountability mechanism • Links the Ministerial level automatically to key commitments adopted through national planning and review processes • Examines the role of each constituency in achieving the commitment rather than relying on a single institution • Use of existing country processes to allow sector players look at sector plans and progress being made. The country processes include Sector Working Group, Technical Working Group and JSR.