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Accessing Funding for MDGs
In East Asia, the development challenge is not in the lack of funds, but the inability to access and use those that exist already to build up and secure assets for the long-term. For a region enjoying strong growth and investor confidence, it is a shame if part of that wealth could not be directed toward services to the poor. Investment needed to bring water to 500 million people and basic sanitation for a billion people is huge however funding available is being under utilized. This is heightened in countries that decentralized sector responsibility to the regions, such as Indonesia and the Philippines. Local governments have limited appreciation of the financing options available to them and how to make the best use of them. Recent studies in both Indonesia and the Philippines have shown that local governments and their utilities tend to rely on their revenues, and are not able to finance long-gestating infrastructure expansion and improvement programs. Similarly, small-scale providers and utilities from the Philippines to Cambodia need continued capacity building to enable them to access and effectively utilize financing. National governments should ensure that financing is directed toward the poor. They should aim to leverage, not displace, other sources of financing. Services need to become increasingly viable and generate income, letting national subsidies focus on services to the poor. Challenge funds that encourage investments in public goods, such as sanitation, or output-based aid and grants that award the achievements rather than augment inputs are excellent tools at the government's disposal.
CONTACT: Almud Weitz
Vietnam Striving for WSS MDGs
Vietnam has initiated a second RWSS (Rural Water Supply and Sanitation) National Target Program for 2006-2010 focusing on sanitation. The RWSS Partnership initiative was established in 2006 by the Government of Vietnam (GoV) and the donor community to enhance resource use through coordination and harmonization. It has improved procedures for GoV-led critical activities including; review and update of the National RWSS Strategy to 2020, sector Monitoring and Evaluation system development, research priority identification, and unified sanitation strategy and action plan (U3SAP) preparation. The RWSS Partnership is also strongly involved in promoting SAWAP (Sanitation and Water Partnership for the Mekong Region), supported by WSP. Taken together, these key initiatives are helping Vietnam stay on track toward the WSS goals.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Hoa, Director of Coordination Unit, Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Partnership (RWSS-P), Cambodia.
Washington
2008 Calendar -- Vote for Your Favorite Sanitation Cartoons
To commemorate the International Year of Sanitation, WSP is issuing a special cartoon calendar. The calendar will consist of the best sanitation cartoons from the past eight years. The selection of the 12 best cartoons will be decided by popular vote, to pick your favorite please click here.
CONTACT: wsp@worldbank.org
Global Scaling Up Handwashing and Total Sanitation Teams Meet
The global teams implementing the projects Scaling Up Handwashing and Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing met in June to discuss the first six months of start-up, recruitment, and planning as well as to set goals and share lessons learned. The two projects are funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to learn and measure results from sanitation marketing and demand-driven sanitation approaches in 6 countries. The full reports from both meetings are available on the WSP website www.wsp.org -- Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing; Scaling up Handwashing.
CONTACT: Eduardo Perez
Africa
Holding Service Providers to Account in Kenya
The launch of Citizens' Report Cards (CRCs) in three Kenyan cities last May marked the high point of a pilot initiative to strengthen citizen engagement as a means of enhancing public accountability, performance and responsiveness in the urban water and sanitation sector. CRCs gauge both citizens' access to and satisfaction with services; they point out areas where service providers are succeeding and areas that need improvement. The citizen report cards on urban water, sanitation and solid waste services in Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu revealed general consumer dissatisfaction and highlighted stark inequities suffered by the poor in accessing services and interacting with utilities.
Only 7% of the poor are connected to the water mains network in Kisumu. In response to the findings, service providers committed to improving services to the poor and addressing concerns on water unreliability, billing and communication with customers. The utilities in Nairobi and Kisumu undertook to ensure equitable distribution of water and to launch customer charters within this year. At the policy level, ministries responsible for water and public health, together with oversight agencies, committed to ensuring that service providers applied strategies with pro-poor focus. WSP-Africa, which provided technical assistance to develop the report cards, is now working with stakeholders in the sector to apply the report cards in identifying urgent priorities for national policy consideration, especially regarding services for the urban poor.
CONTACT: Rosemary Rop
Rebuilding the Water and Sanitation Sector in the DRC
The situation of water and sanitation in post-conflict Democratic Republic of Congo is dire. There has been no significant investment in the sector since the withdrawal of donors in the early 1990s. Infrastructure has deteriorated and institutions have decayed. Only 22% of the population has access to water services and only 10% have adequate sanitation. In order to assist with poverty alleviation and rebuilding of the water and sanitation sector in this post-conflict nation, WSP-Africa is working with all stakeholders to ensure coordinated efforts toward investment plans, pro-poor policies and practices. WSP-Africa initiated a sector coordination group in 2005 which has reconnected donors and WSS partners to the national WSS committee (CNAEA). A database mapping organizational players and their activities has been produced to reduce duplication, highlight gaps and improve coordination. Where good practices are identified, funds are being pooled to implement them. Currently, WSP-Africa is assisting a World Bank emergency project in Kinshasa to define a US$25 million water project to supply water to 150,000 people in the Southwest part of the city. The WSP support is focused on implementing a community-management approach for communal stand-posts.
CONTACT: Georges Kazad or Madio Fall
WSP Strengthens Partnership with African Development Bank
WSP has opened a liaison office within the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Tunis, Tunisia. The office will increase cooperation and harness synergies with regional institutions involved in water and sanitation. The regional financial institution is currently supporting the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI), which assists countries improve access to water supply and sanitation in rural Africa. The aim is to increase access to safe water and basic sanitation to 80% of the rural population by 2015, with 100% coverage by 2025. The AfDB also hosts the Africa Water Facility, which assists African countries in attracting investments necessary to achieve regional targets on water and sanitation. WSP has deployed two water and sanitation specialists to the liaison office to improve AfDB engagement in the sector and strengthen institutional collaboration with the World Bank. WSP-Africa has also entered into collaborative arrangements with the EU Water Initiative and the African Ministers' Council on Water.
CONTACT: Jerome Rihouey
New Financing Strategies for the Water Sector in Africa
WSP-Africa is partnering with the OECD and the EU Water Initiative's Finance Working Group to support development of financing strategies for the water sector in Africa. At a joint technical meeting in May, held in Paris, France, OECD presented its FEASIBLE model. It has been used to develop financing strategies for environmental infrastructure in mostly urban contexts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. FEASIBLE uses unit costs based on key variables (e.g. pipe sizes) to estimate program costs. WSP-Africa showcased its SWIFT model, which has been developed to assist the African water sector to perform long-term financial planning. This planning was completed within the context of emerging sector programs, SWAps and decentralization reforms required if the MDGs are to be reached. The SWIFT model estimates program costs and also facilitates public finance modeling of government and donor transfers. Examples include the Ethiopia Water Supply Sector Resource Flows Assessment, and Alternative Tools and Methodologies to Support Policy Dialogue on Finance Strategy for Water Supply and Sanitation. The three agencies will collaborate to support the development of a financing strategy for water infrastructure in at least one African country. They will also update documentation on the SWIFT and FEASIBLE models.
CONTACT: Kameel Virjee
East Asia and the Pacific
First Sanitation Donor Group Meeting in Indonesia
WSP recently organized the first sanitation donor group (SDG) meeting in Jakarta with the objective of developing a coordination mechanism for donors involved with the sanitation sector in Indonesia. The SDG concept had been discussed with Indonesia's National Development Planning Agency-Bappenas, which agreed that an organized group may prompt better coordination. During the meeting, each agency made a short presentation on lessons learned on urban and rural sanitation, and on the focus of their current and future funding programs. The group agreed to work on a number of outputs-a matrix of current donor sanitation activities in Indonesia; lessons learned in urban and rural sanitation; and a joint presentation of lessons learned for the GOI National Conference on Sanitation in August 2007 and to put sanitation financing and investment support on agenda. Participants included AusAID, JBIC, CARE International, the Netherlands, PLAN International, UNICEF, USAID, WHO, and World Bank/WSP.
CONTACT: Almud Weitz, Isabel Blackett
China's Yunnan Province Engages in SAWAP
In May 2007, WSP-supported Sanitation and Water Partnership for the Mekong Region (SAWAP) completed its first phase by organizing a start up meeting in Yunnan Province of China. It was attended by the Yunnan; Environmental Protection Bureau's International Cooperation Department, Provincial Bureau of Health, Academy of Science, Private Sector Association and The Nature Conservancy's Wetland Program. Core SAWAP teams from other partners were well represented: Cambodia by the Ministry of Rural Development, Lao PDR by the Urban Research Institute and Vietnam by the Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Partnership. Insights from the workshop-linked field visits, ideas for specific initiatives that SAWAP might support through partnership in Yunnan, and emerging awareness of common issues for Yunnan Province, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam were some of the workshop outputs. As of July 2007, SAWAP will see an increasingly intensive phase of expanding WSP support work to country-led SAWAP initiatives as well as a growing number and scale of cross-boundary and region-wide SAWAP contributions. Swedish Sida is the initial SAWAP supporting donor with others showing strong interest in the approach.
CONTACT: Michael Seager
Indonesia Paves the Way for Handwashing Public-Private Partnership
On July 9 the Government of Indonesia invited the private sector to join the Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap Initiative (PPP for HWWS). At a national conference in Jakarta the Ministry, in cooperation with WSP, elaborated on the initiative, roles and benefits for potential partners. The 58 participants included fifteen media representatives who published positive national coverage of the initiative after taking part in the discussion. A core group that will prepare a formal launch of the PPP for HWWS on the sidelines of Indonesia's Sanitation Summit (scheduled for 27-29 August 2007) was agreed upon at the conference. While handwashing with soap at critical times -- after defecation, after cleaning child's bottom, before feeding children, before preparing food, and before eating -- would significantly contribute to prevention of certain diseases. The practice of handwashing with soap is still uncommon among Indonesians. The Basic Human Services: Baseline Household Survey 2005/6 showed that less than 12% of respondents in 30 Districts of 6 Provinces in Indonesia wash their hands with soap after defecation; 6% before preparing food and only 14% before eating.
CONTACT: Yosa Yuliarsa, Ida Rafiqah
Sanitation Roadshow Launched
The Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing (TSSM) Project has visited 11 districts in Indonesia since June. Funded by a grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, TSSM aims to scale up the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach in East Java Province in 2007-2009. On average, each roadshow drew 50 participants from local government and lawmakers, NGOs, media and informal leaders. The roadshows consisted of presentations on a national sanitation strategy, on the TSSM project itself, Q&A, and stakeholder discussions. Several districts have already committed to conducting follow-up roadshows to their respective sub-districts as early as July 2007. In a related development, the Water and Sanitation Policy and Action Planning Project (WASPOLA) has begun involving universities as stakeholders in efforts to replicate the CLTS approach. The WASPOLA-facilitated Working Group held training sessions on June 25-30 for lecturers and students of the Banten-based Tirtayasa University, sanitarians and officers of a community empowerment project. The training sessions covered CLTS knowledge, behavior triggering and facilitation skills. In less than two years, the CLTS approach has so far been replicated by 38 districts in nine provinces, covering more than 300 villages and resulting in 23,000 new latrines.
CONTACT: Yosa Yuliarsa, Ratna Josodipoero
New Vietnamese Wastewater Decree
The Government of Vietnam issued a new decree on Wastewater Management for Urban Areas and Industrial Zones on May 28, 2007. The development was supported by World Bank and WSP staff. The decree offers clarification on: Government ownership of the drainage and sewage collection and treatment assets; the roles of the operating companies and contractual agreements with the asset owners; needs for a regulatory body to supervise the performance of the contractual parties; and wastewater tariffs to reach full cost recovery. This is a significant step forward by the Government of Vietnam in the sanitation sector, matching the rapid progress in the transition toward a market economy of all sectors. The Decree links closely with WSP-supported activities in Vietnam, including the regional Economics of Sanitation Initiative (ESI).The forthcoming Options Study phase of this is expected to support the Government's guiding of decision makers within the new decree. This policy will also be supported by the WSP supported four-ministry Unified Sanitation Sector Strategy and Action Plan (U3SAP).
CONTACT: Michael Seager
Lao PDR Launches a Health Promotion Website
Lao PDR Vice-Minister of Health inaugurated the launch of the country's first health promotion website, www.health.gov.la on June 7. The Ministry of Health's National Centre for Environmental Health and Water Supply (Nam Saat Central) developed the website with support from a number of water supply and sanitation partners, including WSP. The website compiles guidelines, manuals, toolkits and hygiene promotion materials in Lao and English. The 'Ask Expert' and 'Health Forum' functions, for instance, allow users to interact, post health, hygiene and sanitation-related questions and to share ideas through an interactive web board.
CONTACT: Thomas Meadley
Latin America and the Caribbean
LatinoSan Website and Registration Available
The International Year of Sanitation has prompted a group of institutions, headed by Colombia's Ministry of Environment, Housing, and Territorial Development and the Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation Regulatory Commission, to jointly launch a Latin American Sanitation Conference, LatinoSan 2007, in Cali, Colombia, from November 12-16. The goal is to raise the political profile of sanitation and hygiene at country and regional levels in Latin America and the Caribbean through high level advocacy. Although over one billion people have gained access to improved sanitation in the past 14 years, estimates are not encouraging for Latin America. To achieve the Millennium Development Goals' sanitation target, 10 million people need to gain access to sanitation facilities each year during 2005-1015. According to the Joint Monitoring Program, 14% of the urban population (60 million) and 51% (65 million) of rural dwellers in Latin America lack access to any kind of improved sanitation system. For more information and to register please visit us online.
CONTACT: Edgar Quiroga, Johnny Rojas
Collaborating with Small-Scale Operators
WSP, CARE and the Ministry of Health of Panama organized a three-day event in Panama in June 2007 on the role of small-scale operators and businesses in the water sector in Latin America. The workshop was a part of a WSP-managed global project on Domestic Private Sector Participation Initiative, funded by DFID. Attended by 100 participants from all over Latin America, the workshop was the first ever regional event organized on the subject. Small-scale operators and businesses play a significant role in water service provision in Latin America, especially in the ever-growing urban concentrations in the region where majority of urban poor live. Surprisingly, very little is known about these small-scale operators. The workshop, along with regional studies, aimed to fill the knowledge gap and elevate the status of small-scale providers. Creating favorable conditions for the participation of small-scale operators, strengthening their legal position and regulatory status could yield significant results for the development of the sector. The first concrete steps agreed upon are to prepare individual country agendas to give more exposure and visibility to small-scale operators in the region. The country agendas will reinforce the contributions and role of small-scale providers in the water sector from both legal and political perspectives in hopes to hasten their inclusion in the decision-making processes in the sector.
CONTACT: Iris Marranillo and Franois Brikke in Peru, Rafael Vera in Honduras
South Asia
Water and Sanitation For People with HIV-AIDS
Latest estimates show that some 8.3 million people were living with HIV in Asia at the end of 2005, more than two-thirds of them, or 5.7 million, in India. People living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) recognize the need for safe water, appropriate sanitation, and hygiene practices better than most people but there seem to be barriers in converting knowledge into practice. Although nongovernmental organizations and networks of people living with HIV and AIDS have started incorporating messages on safe water and hygiene practices into their efforts, the communication is inconsistent and not always comprehensive. Realizing the need for disseminating the findings of the study and drawing the attention of stakeholders regarding the links between water, sanitation, and hygiene, and HIV and AIDS, Water and Sanitation Program-South Asia developed the Field Note, 'Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Behavior Among People Living with HIV and AIDS.' The note draws upon learning from the study commissioned by WSP, the proceedings of the national and state-level consultations, and from desk research on other studies and experiences, mainly in South Asia. This field note captures the importance of incorporating improved, consistent, and comprehensive water, sanitation, and hygiene-related information into HIV and AIDS care interventions at both the implementation and policy levels.
CONTACT: Suseel Samuel
Funding Incentive for Open Defecation Free Movement in Pakistan
In a major boost to the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) movement in Pakistan, the Khushal Pakistan Fund has announced that funding of its US$ 200 million program, being executed through the Rural Support Program (RSP), would be linked to achievement of Open Defecation Free (ODF) targets in their villages. During the current calendar year, the Khushal Pakistan Fund is expected to reach over 9.7 million people in about 1.36 million households spread across 73 districts of Pakistan. The announcement by Khushal Pakistan Fund CEO, Mr. Arif Yakub, came at the first training of community activists on techniques for triggering CLTS in rural villages of Pakistan, from June 26- 30, 2007, near Islamabad. The training was jointly organized by the Water and Sanitation Program- South Asia (WSP-SA) and Rural Support Program Network. Nearly 49 participants were trained to become "community consultants/barefoot consultants" and will in turn train another 5000 activists from the Rural Support Program Network's pool of 35000 community activists. A tent village was established near Islamabad, to train the participants on various aspects of CLTS, including construction of communal latrines. In the next few months, the trained consultants are expected to help nearly 40 villages achieve ODF status in Pakistan. Nearly 42 villages of Mardan are already ODF Free.
CONTACT: Masroor Ahmad
Cash Reward for Pakistan's First Open Defecation Free Village
The village of Inzer Killi in the Mardan district of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), received a reward of US$ 5,000 for becoming the country's first Open Defecation Free (ODF) village. Mr. Mirafzal Khan, a representative from the Integrated Regional Support Program, (IRSP), which helps villages to reach ODF status, received the reward from the Nazim (Mayor) of Mardan District in the presence of many elected representatives including the Nazim of the Tehsil (Block) of Takht Bhai. Mr. Khan said their village became ODF in only 40 days in 2006, after the initial visit of IRSP staff who triggered the CLTS movement in Inzer Killi. "None of the 180 household residents in the village defecate in the open and latrines have been constructed without any support for hardware," he said, adding that people from his village had gone to surrounding villages of Inzer Killi and triggered CLTS on their own initiative. "This has cost nothing but has brought priceless satisfaction and convenience to people, especially to women who now do not have to wait for the dark to defecate". The District Mayor and member of provincial assembly announced rewards of US$ 830 and US$ 3,300 respectively for each union council, which will achieve ODF status. In Mardan district 42 villages have achieved ODF status. The rewards are in line with the Pakistan National Sanitation Policy which promotes 'Community Led Total Sanitation' as one of its basic principles and offers 'reward for outcomes' as incentives for Tehsils to create 'Open Defecation Unions.'
CONTACT: Masroor Ahmad
More Rewards for Indian States
Andhra Pradesh, in Southern India, has joined the small but growing club of Indian states that are using financial incentives to boost total sanitation. The state government has instituted a US$ 1.5 million rewards scheme, Shubram (Cleanliness) based on the lines of the national rewards scheme. It will reward gram panchayats (local self-government bodies) that excel in maintaining a clean and sanitized community to become Open Defecation Free (ODF). While the national scheme, Nirmal Gram Puraskar (Clean Village Award) provides incentives for local governments to achieve a certain benchmark in sanitation outcomes, the Andhra Pradesh rewards scheme will provide additional incentives to local governments to achieve total sanitation through community participation and action in environmental sanitation. The scheme will recognize panchayats for their efforts towards achieving total sanitation and will have four tiers at the mandal (Block), Zilla Parishad (District), Division and State levels. The reward for first tier, at the block level will be based on parameters that include being ODF, safe disposal of excreta, liquid and solid waste management, operation and maintenance of drinking water schemes, personal hygiene and community participation. Individuals will also be eligible for awards if they motivate and encourage others in the village to adopt good practices for ensuring better health and hygiene. The awards are being instituted to reduce the cases of water and sanitation related diseases and to promote a spirit of competition among the gram panchayats across the State. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Haryana, are the other states that have instituted state rewards schemes to promote total sanitation.
CONTACT: Mariappa Kullappa
Innovative 'Clinic' on Billing and Collection
Six South Asian urban water service providers worked with counterparts in Bangkok and Singapore to design and implement plans to improve billing and collection operations, in an innovative customized clinic on billing and collection for South Asian utilities, organized by WSP from May 7 to 11, 2007. Collection of arrears, reduction of non-revenue water, installation of meters, 100% mapping of customers, data cleansing, regularization of connections and institutional capacity building of billing and collection, emerged as key areas of focus at the clinic. The participants - 17 officials from water utilities of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan - focused on the importance of managing data (e.g., 100% mapping of customers) for the purposes of non-revenue water monitoring (e.g., reduction of NRW by 9%) as well as managing arrear payments due to them by customers (e.g., improve arrears management efficiency by 25%).This "customized clinic", combined exposure visits to Bangkok's Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) and Singapore's Public Utilities Board (PUB), with hands on support to participants to design improvement plans. Based on issues discussed at the clinic, each of the six water service providers designed their own implementation plans to improve on two or three strategic areas of their billing and collection operations. By establishing time-bound indicators of success, each service provider will be able to monitor its progress more effectively. WSP-SA will provide follow-up support over the coming year.
CONTACT: Glenn Pearce Oroz
| Publications and Learning Resources |
Africa
Can Hygiene be Cool and Fun? Insights from School Children in Senegal
(March 2007) by Myriam Sidibe and Val Curtis
Latin America and the Caribbean
Revista Agua # (Sector magazine in Peru)
Evaluacion de Los Operadores Locales de Pequena Escala de Agua y Saneamiento en el Peru
The study looks into the role of small-scale providers in the provision of water supply and sanitation services in Peru.
La Inclusion del Enfoque de Equidad de Genero en el Sector de Agua y Saneamiento en Honduras: Diagnostico y Propuesta
The document deals with the inclusion of gender focus in the water and sanitation sector in Honduras. It assesses the current situation and analyzes accomplishments that have been achieved with regard to strengthening gender focus in the water and sanitation sector. The document also offers tangible proposals on how to further advance and strengthen gender approach on various policy/administrational levels in the water and sanitation sector in Honduras as well as in sector projects that are in preparation or already in implementation.
South Asia
Overview and Key Findings: Engaging with Citizens to Improve Services & Engaging with Citizens to Improve Services
This study explains why and how the creation of institutionalized citizen engagement will enhance the public accountability, performance, and customer responsiveness in the Indian urban water and sanitation sector. The accompanying volume contains ten practical case studies of citizen engagement in India to derive lessons for civil society groups, policy makers and service providers pertinent to different points in the 'service delivery chain' -- including policy making, planning and budgeting; standard-setting and enforcement; and performance monitoring. For more: Engaging with Citizens to Improve Services
Empowering Citizens' Participation and Voice
This field note explores the dynamics of making available mechanisms that allow voicing of grievances and exercising client power for redress through a case study from an urban municipality in Pakistan: the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) of Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi. The TMA established a computerized customer complaints center for addressing consumer grievances. This initiative proved to be not just a technological advancement for the citizens of the area, but also a sorely needed confidence-building measure.
| The Water Cooler - News from Our Partners |
SoapBox Newsletter
SoapBox, the newsletter of the global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing, features country updates and other news from the world of handwashing promotion.
CONTACT: Kate Tulenko & Lene Jensen
IRC Report Launched
Water Advocates' 2007 New York Times advertisement published
Take a sneak peak on their website at http://www.wateradvocates.org/nytimesad.htm.
Blue Planet Run
An international team of 20 citizen runners left New York City on June 1 and is running around the world 24 hours a day in ten-mile relay segments for more than 95 days. The runners will touch down in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 1, and then spend August running across the United States, ending in New York City on September 4. Find out more about their run on their website www.blueplanetrun.org.
Africa
AfricaSan + 5 Conference, Durban, South Africa, February 18-20, 2008
CONTACT: Oussenyou Diop
East Asia and the Pacific
National Conference on Sanitation in Jakarta, Indonesia on 4-6 September, 2007.
CONTACT: Isabel Blackett
East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene 2007 (EASAN 2007), Xi'an City, China on 7-8 November, 2007.
CONTACT: Jemima T. Sy
Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America Regional Sanitation Conference
Organized by the Water and Sanitation Program - Latin America and the Caribbean (WSP-LAC), Colombian Vice Ministry of Water and Sanitation, CINARA (Colombia) and UNICEF. One of a series of regional sanitation conferences in support of the 2008 International Year of Sanitation.
CONTACT: Edgar Quiroga, Johnny Rojas
Latin America and the Caribbean staff
MERCEDES ZEVALLOS has joined WSP-LAC's regional office in Lima to support implementation of "Sanitation is a Business" project. Mercedes was in charge of a communication component of the small town pilot project. She has experience in participating and managing projects in social marketing and civil society participation in rural and urban areas.
CONTACT: Mercedes Zevallos
MILTON MARTIN VON HESSE LA SERNA joined WSP-LAC in June to coordinate the project to support decentralization and good governance project in Peru. Milton is Peruvian Economist with strong experience in public policies, investment projects, rural development, and public- private partnerships. Prior joining WSP he teached in Institutional Economics and Project Appraisal Milton has experience working in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay.
CONTACT: Milton M. Von Hesse
Wan Alkadri, a director at the Health Ministry, was quoted as saying by The Jakarta Post's July 10, 2007 edition
This handwashing program needs the private sectors' involvement. Their involvement would allow us to extend our capabilities and make the program sustainable.
Contact Information
WSP Africa
wspaf@worldbank.org
(254-20) 3226000, 3226386
WSP East Asia and the Pacific
wspeap@worldbank.org
(62-21) 52993003
WSP Latin America
wsplac@worldbank.org
(511) 6150685
WSP South Asia
wspsa@worldbank.org
(91-11) 24690488, 24690489
WSP Washington D.C.
wsp@worldbank.org
(202) 473-9785
| | | About WSP
Administered by The World Bank and one of its oldest external partnerships, the Water and Sanitation Program is primarily a field-based organization with regional offices in Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and South Asia, and a Washington, D.C.-based headquarters.
WSP supports water and sanitation sector reform focusing primarily on poverty-targeted, gender-sensitive, community-based solutions in rural settlements, urban areas, and small towns.
WSP staff provides advisory support, helps identify and disseminate best practices and lessons from experience across countries, and facilitates informal networks of practitioners and sector stakeholders.
WSP Funding Partners
The Water and Sanitation Program's present funding partners are the governments of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the United Kingdom; The United States; the UNDP, and The World Bank.
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