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Nicholas Mancus, Chairman, Operations Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group

Rotary and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) A presentation to the D-9370 Conference. Nicholas Mancus, Chairman, Operations Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group November 2017 – Champagne Sports Resort, Central Drakensburg, KZN, SA. Personal Background. Nicholas Mancus

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Nicholas Mancus, Chairman, Operations Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group

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  1. Rotary and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) A presentation to the D-9370 Conference. Nicholas Mancus, Chairman, Operations Water & Sanitation Rotarian Action Group November 2017 – Champagne Sports Resort, Central Drakensburg, KZN, SA

  2. Personal Background • Nicholas Mancus • Rotary Classification: Public Health • Member: Rotary Club of Abidjan Golf, Cote d’Ivoire, D 9101 • Chairman of Operations, WASRAG

  3. What is WASRAG?

  4. The Background: • 663 million people (one in ten) lack access to safe water.

  5. The Background: • 2.4 billion have no sanitation.

  6. 8,000 people, mostly children, die unnecessarily every day. Women and children, usually girls, spend up to six hours per day hauling water. Young girls miss classes, drop out of school. 40 billion hours spent annually hauling water. Families pass away for lack of water. The consequences are critical:

  7. But Rotarians are liberating women, children and families from hauling water: Bore holes Dug wells

  8. 251 water and sanitation projects in Africa Total investment of around $19.5 Million USD over past five years

  9. TRF has provided funding: • 734 Global Grants approved since 2013 • 302 Grants in 2015 alone. • Over $50 million granted for WASH since 2013 • In 2015 $6 million Global Grants for Africa. • WASH in Schools, US AID collaboration focus.

  10. Rainwater harvesting Household filtersand purification

  11. SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection)

  12. Sand, earth and concrete dams Pipelines and distribution systems

  13. Toilet blocks Latrines

  14. Sustainability requires: • Appropriate technology • Community “ownership” • Capacity building • Behavior change • Funding for operations and maintenance

  15. Scaling up calls for: • Collaboration between clubs • Effective relationships with NGOs and CBOs • Robust linkages with local authorities • Advocacy and innovation • Professional management

  16. Every one of us can address these challenges: • Get your club involved in a WASH project • Donate to the WAS*MGI (Water & Sanitation Major Gifts Initiative) • Personally get involved with WASRAG

  17. WASRAG gives tangible support to clubs: • Technology and sustainability guidelines • Professional project/program management • Leadership in training and capacity building • Linking clubs and NGOs • Enabling business enterprise • Project fund-raising • WASRAG Fund (new initiative)

  18. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools pilot program, or “WinS”. Rotary International (RI)/United States Agency for International Development (USAID) partnership program. Water and Sanitation Major Giving Initiative (WaS MGI). Three new Rotary Foundation initiatives:

  19. WAS*MGI will kick-start new funding: • Goal of $25 million over 3 years • A Rotary Foundation program for major donors • Endowed and Term Gifts • Spendable earnings for Global Grants in AoF • Working with WASRAG

  20. 10th annual  WASRAG World Water Summit on Friday June 22th, 2017 - 08.00 am - 17.30 pm This year's theme will focus on WASH and Health Location:  Delta Toronto Hotel, 75 Lower Simcoe St, Toronto, ON M5J 3A6, Canada

  21. WASRAG's Annual General Meeting  Saturday June 23, 4.30 - 7.00 pm Toronto Convention Centre

  22. WASRAG is more than your resource for WASH. It’s helping Rotarians to transform communities: Go to: www.wasrag.org Click on “Sign Up”

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