Looking through the GLAAS

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"Looking through the GLAAS"
Ministerial Dialogue on Sanitation and
Water Washington, DC 22 April 2010 Federico
Properzi Peregrine Swann Project
Manager Senior Adviser properzif_at_who.i
nt swannp_at_who.int WHO GLAAS Team
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Context and content of presentation

• Data from first UN-Water GLAAS report launched
  yesterday 21 April
• Report includes data from nearly all donors and
  42 developing countries
• WHO GLAAS team worked closely with World Bank WSP
  team that is preparing the Country Status
  Overviews for 32 African countries
• Strong collaboration between UN-Water GLAAS and
  WSP-CSO
• Presentation looks at
• Impact of poor sanitation and unsafe water
• Targeting of resources
• Who's providing the external resources?
• Who's receiving ODA?
• Who's not receiving ODA?
• Are resources focused on the poor and the
  un-served?
• What is happening at the country level
• Some highlights

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Outline

1. Impact
2. Priorities
3. Targeting
4. Capacities
5. Partnerships
6. Highlights

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1. Impact of poor sanitationand unsafe water

• HEALTH
• 2.2 million preventable deaths of children
• Diarrhoea the second leading contributor to
  global disease burden
• For children under 15, impact of diarrhoea
  greater than that of HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB
  combined
• Overall around 9 of the global burden of disease
  attributable to poor sanitation and unsafe water
• EDUCATION
• 11 increase in girls attendance in Bangladesh
  UNICEF study
• Evidence of increased learning performance when
  worm infections reduced
• ECONOMY
• economic benefits of many times the invested
• World Bank estimate between 2 and 7 of GDP lost
  through poor sanitation and unsafe water in
  developing countries

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1. Impact of poor sanitationand unsafe water
Source Safer Water, Better Health WHO, 2008
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2. PrioritiesDonor priority sectors
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2. PrioritiesAid for health and education has
outpaced aid for sanitation and drinking-water
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2. PrioritiesDeveloping countries report
insufficient funds to meet the sanitation and
water MDG target
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UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 1
Greater political commitment to sanitation and
drinking-water by donors and developing countries
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3. Targeting42 of WASH aid to low-income
countries
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3. TargetingGlobal trends of WASH aid
Aid flows for basic water and sanitation remained
relatively constant at US 1.1 billion, and aid
flows for large systems increased from US 2.6
billion to US 4.3 billion from 2000 to 2008
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3. TargetingPoor targeting to unserved and poor
populations
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UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 2
Target resources better to reach the sanitation
and drinking-water MDG Target
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4. CapacitiesInstitutional roles and
responsibilities need to be better defined and
operationalized
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4. CapacitiesInvestment programmes in sanitation
are lagging behind
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4. CapacitiesStaff shortages primarily due
toinadequate budgets
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UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 3
Strengthen national systems to plan, implement
and monitor delivery of services
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5. PartnershipsProcedures to promote local
stakeholder participation are weak
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5. PartnershipsMost aid recipients have a
multitude of donors disbursing funds
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5. PartnershipsAid disbursements generally
follow commitment levels
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UN-Water GLAAS 2010 ReportRecommendation No. 4
Stronger partnerships to develop and implement
national sanitation and drinking-water plans
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6. Highlights Donors

• WASH aid increased between 2000 and 2008 by over
  150 to Africa and over 50 globally
• Over the same period, WASH aid reduced as a of
  overall aid (from approx 6.3 to 4.7)
• 42 of aid targeted to LICs (plus some regional
  aid)
• Top 12 priority recipients receive 50 of WSS aid
  
• ODA for basic services declined from 27 to 16
  over the last five years
• Donors targeted 37 of WASH aid to sanitation
  against 63 to water
• Predictability of donor funding as perceived by
  GLAAS countries increasing

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6. Highlights Developing countries

• Most countries developed national MDG targets but
  financial flows to WASH insufficient to meet
  these national MDG targets in many countries
• Governments spend 20 of WASH funds on sanitation
  (median figure)
• Only one third of countries implement criteria
  for targeting resources to the poor for water and
  hardly any for sanitation
• Most countries have developed WASH policies but
  only one half have clearly defined and
  operationalized roles for WASH institutions
• Most countries are developing some kind of HRD
  plan, but many HR obstacles are cited
• Most countries have an annual review process but
  few update undertakings made in previous reviews
• Around one third of sub-sectors utilize over 75
  of donor commitments, but 20 utilize less than
  50
• Local participation in planning and
  implementation of programmes not consistently
  applied in any of the four sub-sectors
  (urban/rural water/sanitation)

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THANK YOU
Federico Properzi Peregrine
Swann Project Manager Senior
Adviser properzif_at_who.int
swannp_at_who.int WHO GLAAS Team
www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/glaas
glaas_at_who.int