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SEH: Getting off to a Good Start Merri Weinger, USAID SEH Kick-Off Meeting, November 3, 2010. This presentation will:. Briefly review our vision for SEH in key program areas Discuss priority countries and making overtures to Missions Highlight expectations for Year One.
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SEH: Getting off to a Good StartMerri Weinger, USAIDSEH Kick-Off Meeting, November 3, 2010
This presentation will: • Briefly review our vision for SEH in key program areas • Discuss priority countries and making overtures to Missions • Highlight expectations for Year One
SEH: So who came up with that name? • Healthy Households and Communities as end-products of EH Initiative • What is a Healthy Household? • Supportive Environments • Policy • Infrastructure/Institutions • Financing • Community organization/participation
WASH and IAQ • Integration not essential- but encourage cross-fertilization and learning • Cross-cutting elements include: • Hardware • Behavior change strategy • Private sector entrepreneurs • Creative financing
Scale and Sustainability • Working at scale as cross-cutting theme • Define scale • Aim for Sustainable Service Delivery
Sub-Objective 1: Increasing Availability and Use of Proven Interventions • Scaling up sanitation activities in at least 10 countries • In partnership with other donors, private sector, civil society • Including demand creation and availability and use of quality sanitation products • With sustainable models for financing sanitation product and service delivery • With strong evidence base and documentation • Support for USAID’s Sanitation Working Group
Scaling up Proven Technologies for Water Supply • Cost-effective approaches for communities outside piped networks • Implement water supply development activities (e.g. rainwater harvesting, protecting wells, etc.) • Multiple Use Water Systems • Build capacity of small scale WASH providers in private sector • Effective interaction with other country activities
Scaling up Proven Technologies for Promotion of Improved Water Quality • Focus on models for getting right product into consumer’s hands, e.g. filters • Expansion of distribution channels for underserved populations
Support for PPPHW and efforts to take handwashing to scale in at least one country Handwashing with soap/handwashing stations as core component of sanitation initiatives Scaling up Handwashing
Indoor Air Quality: More Than Cookstoves • Develop framework for impact for IAQ including • Access to appropriate cookstoves • Behavior change approaches • Enabling environment
Sub-objective 2: WASH & HIV/AIDS Integration • Increase visibility of sanitation in Basic Care Package • Go beyond home-based care • Focus on Technical Working Groups- OVC, F&N • Increase advocacy with OGAC/USG partners • Global Community of Practice
Other Priorities • WASH/IAQ & Education • WASH & Nutrition • WASH & IAQ and MCH • Especially sanitation • In collaboration with MCHIP
Sub-objective 3:Partnerships • Maximize potential of SEH team and resource partners • Partner with other key donors • Foster public-private partnerships
Innovation Innovation = Technology AND new ways of doing business
Capacity Building • Creating/collecting tools for capacity building • Sanitation- CLTS/Sanitation Marketing • Building capacity of the private sector • IAQ • Identify • What are the necessary skills? • Methodologies for skill-building, including training • Where are the gaps?
Gender • Gender as visible cross-cutting element of project • Include gender-specific objectives/ indicators/outcomes
Knowledge Management • Build on existing KM investments • Environmental Health Web-Site • HIP • USAID Water Team web-site • Develop innovative and expanded approach to sharing, exchanging knowledge • Using creative learning approaches
Priority Countries • Reach agreement on most successful ways to approach countries • USAID • USAID + SEH • SEH • Ideally by March, 2011
Possible Priority Countries • Uganda • Bangladesh • DRC • Haiti • Malawi • Indonesia • Benin
Possible Priority Countries • Madagascar • WASH in Schools in Zambia • WSP/Gates countries (Ethiopia, Tanzania, India, Indonesia) • Nepal (?) • Mali (?) • Nigeria (?)
Possible Priority Countries:TA to Bilaterals • Ghana • Afghanistan • Sudan • Liberia • Senegal • Tajikistan • Timor • Pakistan
SEH:Year One Expectations • SEH activities launched in at least 3 countries • Confirm key partnerships with other donors/implementing partners • Identify at least 1 sanitation-at-scale country • Key integration activities launched • Establish agreed Advisory Groups (e.g., IAQ, innovation, etc.)
Support from USAID Environmental Health Team • Rochelle Rainey: WASH specialist, with special focus on water quality • Jay Graham: WASH specialist, with special focus on sanitation and IAQ • Tony Kolb: Urban Advisor and WASH specialist