WSP South Asia Overview of Progress in FY07

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WSP - South AsiaOverview of Progress in FY07
Highlights for FY08

• Catherine Revels, Regional Team Leader
• WSP Council Meeting, Amsterdam
• June 2007

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Outline

• Overview WSS in South Asia
• FY07 Achievements
• FY08 Highlights, Challenges and Opportunities

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Overview WSS in South Asia
India Pakistan UWSS access increasing, but
household connections decreasing
Across the region rural sanitation access has
increased significantly
Bangladesh UWS RWS access have decreased
Economic growth between 6-9 rising inequality
South Asia is the region with the worlds largest
conflict-affected population
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How slum dwellers are coping without water
connections
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and with poor sanitation
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Outline

• Overview WSS in South Asia
• FY07 Achievements
• FY08 Highlights, Challenges and Opportunities

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FY07 Achievements Scaling up Sanitation
Rural sanitation scaling up across the region
Bangladesh Impressive scale-up
Pakistan Just beginning
India CLTS spreading
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Progress on sanitation in 3 years since SACOSAN I
FY07 Achievements Scaling up Sanitation
Pakistan SACOSAN II catalyst for change
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FY07 Achievements Scaling up Sanitation
Pakistan SACOSAN II catalyst for change
Punjab Province PKR 500 million
National policy announced at SACOSAN II
National policy development
Develop provincial strategies
programs
Support SACOSAN II
NWFP scaling up in projects
Build capacity of local govts
support agencies in NWFP
Visits to Maharashtra
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FY07 Achievements Scaling up Sanitation
India starting to tackle urban sanitation
Mumbai scaling up
Lessons from Mumbai sanitation project
Scaling up JNNURM donor-funded projects
Partnerships to improve slum sanitation
Development of state strategies
programs
National policy w/Cabinet for approval
Exposure visits, information sharing
Build capacity of local govts
support agencies
National Sanitation Policy developed Task Force
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FY07 AchievementsDecentralization Governance
India putting 1-2 billion/year behind urban
reforms with National Urban Renewal Mission

• Progress
• City Development Plans prepared with citizen
  participation, posted on web
• Some interesting projects dealing with
  institutional arrangements, water conservation,
  water losses
• Cities and states starting to address key policy
  issues

• Challenges
• Funding available to improve service to the poor
  is not being tapped
• Measuring service delivery outcomes is a
  challenge
• Still a long way from getting professional
  utilites
• Many reforms promised in future years

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FY07 AchievementsImproving Services to the
Urban Poor
Improving sanitation in Dhakas slums

• Overlaying poverty mapping and utility network
  maps to identify opportunities to improve service
  and prioritize improvements within the larger
  project

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FY07 Achievements Decentralization Governance
Innovative Approaches Social Accountability

• Linking Right to Information disclosure laws to
  utility benchmarking for monitoring service
  delivery

• Using citizen report cards to measure customer
  demand and satisfaction with service across a
  range of cities/ villages Karachi, NWFP, smaller
  towns in India

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Outline

• Overview WSS in South Asia
• FY07 Highlights
• FY08 Highlights, Challenges and Opportunities

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FY08 Highlights, Challenges Opportunities
Scaling up sanitation

• International Year of Sanitation activating
  Inter-Country Working Group for regional
  knowledge sharing between SACOSANs
• Rural Sanitation - moving from ODF to clean and
  healthy villages
• Urban Sanitation - translating policies and
  strategies into action

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FY08 Highlights, Challenges Opportunities
Decentralization Governance for improved urban
rural service delivery

• Policies are in place, but limited progress on
  the ground to get accountable, effective service
  providers
• Solid evidence to support advocacy
• Communications for reform
• Social accountability to create pressure from
  citizens

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FY08 Highlights, Challenges Opportunities

• Managing demand, being selective
• Strengthening partnerships
• Shoring up funding
• Funding for India urban program starts running
  out in FY08

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