1. Update onWSP’s Global Sanitation Strategy
&
Moving Forward with Sanitation and Hygiene
Jae So
Water and Sanitation Program
Stockholm, Sweden, August 2009

2. Status of the WSP Sanitation Strategy:
Progress since 2006
2010-2018
2009
Leveraging
70% of WSP Knowledge and
2008 portfolio Partnerships to
International sanitation scale up
2007 Year of and hygiene; sanitation and
41% of WSP Sanitation 6 sanitation hygiene
portfolio Economics of studies;
2006 sanitation and Sanitation Launch of
Global hygiene
Sanitation 2 regional Hygiene
2 regional sanitation Strategy
Crisis study sanitation
presented in conferences conferences
Paris 2

3. 1. Status of the WSP Sanitation Strategy
2. Update on WSP Action Plan to support IYS
3. WSP Hygiene Strategy
4. Next Steps
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4. Results of WSP’s Action Plan for IYS
Components of WSP’s IYS Action Plan
1. Partnering to Implement International Year of Sanitation
2. Advocating for Reform
3. Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up
4. Sanitation Roadmaps
5. Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge
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5. Partnering to Implement IYS
Global Advocacy
• Generate political commitment
• Prepare country-level sanitation MDG
Governments Put
roadmaps Sanitation and
• Follow-up for national policy reforms Hygiene on Political
and sanitation scale-up programs Agenda
EASAN
November 2007
SACOSAN III
LATINOSAN October 2008
November 2007 AFRICASAN V
February 2008 5

6. Partnering to Implement IYS
Implementing eThekwini commitments
• AU Heads of State Endorsement of eThekwini Declaration a turning
point
• 25 country action plans developed
• Increased budgets for sanitation: $10m (TZ) and $2.3m (Burkina);
• Kenya: Separate Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation + 4% budget
increase
• AMCOW capacity to provide leadership in implementation growing
• AMCOW Secretariat operational
Strategic direction:
• Country level: Support implementation of country action plans
• Regional level: coordinate tracking of eThekwini commitments
• WSP coordinating implementation 6

7. Advocating for Reform
Economics of Sanitation Initiative
The Economics of Sanitation Initiative
Economic sector work is
raising the profile of
sanitation and getting
governments to take action
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8. Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up
Urban Sanitation
Indonesia Sanitation Sector Development Program (ISSDP)
 6 small and medium sized towns have
produced city-wide poor-inclusive
Sanitation Strategy
 Approach is now being used by the
government as basis for their
Acceleration of their Urban Sanitation
Program to reach 330 cities by 2014
Building Local Government Capacity To Provide Poor-
inclusive Urban Sanitation Services
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9. Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up
Rural Sanitation
Building Local Government Capacity to Change Sanitation
Behaviors and Increase Access to Rural Sanitation
Sanitation
coverage
increased from
0.5 million people
in 2006
to almost 3 million
in 2009
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10. Supporting Policies, Strategies, Scaling Up
Scaling Up Hygiene and Sanitation
“Igniting” Amhara (Ethiopia) to Scale Up Hygiene and Sanitation
Progress of Latrine Coverage in Four Districts in Amhara
Progress of Latrine Coverage in Four Districts in Amhara
70 70
60 60
 10 Districts “ignited”
and moving towards
Percentage
50 50
40 ODF
mhara
e
30 40
age Baseline Jan.08
20 30 Baseline
Total Coverage Jan 09 Jan.08
10 20  ~1million people
Total Coverage Jan 09
0
10Gonder Achefer Kewet Tehuledere reached through
0 program
Districts
Gonder Achefer Kewet Tehuledere
Districts
Districts
Baseline Jan.08
Total Coverage Jan 09
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11. Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge
Creating Sanitation Markets in Peru
US$ 100,000 in sanitation
micro-loans by private banking sector
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12. Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge
Understanding Sanitation Finance
Six Country Study on Sanitation Finance
Allocated capital costs per household
A Range of Onsite Sanitation Financing Options Exist 12

13. Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge
Regional Knowledge Sharing
Lessons are shared across regions as they happen through innovative sharing
techniques, providing technical assistance to other countries upon demand.
Technical
Internships
assistance
Bolivia Colombia Ecuador Guatemala Nicaragua Honduras Panama
• Partnership building strategies
• Behavior change methodologies
• Enabling Environment strategies
• M&E methodologies and tools
• Capturing knowledge
• Visit is designed according to learning needs (7 to 10 days)
• Real time learning – immersion in the field, trainee becomes part of the
process
• Two way learning – feedback provided by trainee
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14. Learning, Capturing, Sharing Knowledge
Creating Country Focused Knowledge
Development of capacity building and
training materials is critical for scaling
up sanitation and hygiene 14

15. Moving Forward on Sanitation
Regional partnerships in East Asia and
Africa with key development partners
CSO- Africa Phase II (in 30 countries)
Donors & Partners:
Harmonization & Alignment Impact Evaluation of large scale Sanitation and
Handwashing interventions in 6 countries
Country Level Political Economy of Sanitation
Monitoring
Economics of Sanitation Initiative in SAR and
Institutions, AFR, and phase II in EAP
Policymakers
Sharing lessons on working with the domestic
private sector to improve sanitation products and
Service Providers services
Sustainability of CLTS in Bangladesh, and
Sanitation Marketing in Vietnam
Citizens
Sharing Lessons and Supporting Sanitation Scale
up in new Countries
Further Support to Countries to Scale Up Rural
Sanitation in Ethiopia, Tanzania, India, Indonesia 15

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