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Michel Becks [email protected]

Demand-driven humanitarian WASH innovations A selection of priorities and solutions

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Key principles in humanitarion assistance

Right to life with dignity Right to humanitarian assistance Right to protection and security

Address emergency thresholds:

• Crude Mortality Rate: 1 per 10,000 per day • Under 5 Mortality Rate: 2 per 10,000 per day

(“Non-crisis” CMR in Sub-Saharan Africa: 0.3 to 0.6 per 10,000 per day, +/- double for U5MR)

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Innovation priority areas

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Noticable changes in the humanitarian system

Improved coordination, transparency and predictable response (Cluster system)

Clear standards and indicators (SPHERE) Increased focus on health outcomes (hygiene

promotion/ software...) Addressing/ absorbing trends:

• Cross-sector working • Resilience building • Green response • Cross-cutting issues: Gender, disability


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Challenges remain…

Natural disasters, and other shocks such as human pandemics and conflict, are likely to occur more often in urban settings

More than half of the refugees now served by UNHCR lives in urban areas; Forming new high density settlements, settling in urban slums or living with host families

River flooding poses a threat to over 379 million urban residents

Over 283 million urban people could potentially be affected by earthquakes


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WASH gap analysis 2013

Water supply Water Treatment,

particularly bulk and point of use household filters, including cost and sustainability issues

Low-tech solutions that are acceptable and can be sustained by local people

Study carried out through the Humanitarian Innovation Fund


Sanitation Latrines in locations where no pits

are possible (urban, high water table/flooding)

Latrine emptying and desludging Final sewage disposal options

after desludging and treatment Community Led Total Sanitation

(CLTS) and sanitation marketing Urban alternatives for excreta

disposal Further develop non-toilet options

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Hygiene Promotion/ software Hand washing hardware and

promotion and sustainability Non-soap options Approaches that are suited to

the local context • Behaviour Change Communication • Data collection and feed-back

using mobile devices

‘Other’ issues Programming across the relief-development continuum

• Sustainability • Integrate exit strategies from the onset

Greater involvement and coordination • With existing local NGOs and NGO development programmes • With other clusters

Urban disasters Create an evidence base: Impact of WASH interventions on

health outcomes Attention to sanitation and hygiene promotion (‘Getting the

balance right’) Impact of the SDGs on humanitarian action

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Urban WASH in Tondo, Manila

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Transformation management intensity

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• Many innovations but within some silo’s (sectors/ organisations)

• No shared vision • Underdeveloped coordination

Conservative

• Shared but underdeveloped vision • Limited, but traditionally strong

innovation • Strong coordination/ control • Active in building innovation capacity

and culture

Innovation Leader

• Strong shared vision, governance and coordination

• Vibrant innovation chain with measurable added value

• Strong innovation culture

Beginner

• Management sceptical towards innovation in its organisation

• (Potentially) some experiments • Immature innovation culture

Creating a culture of innovation


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The innovation process

Developing Functional Requirements

Intensive (WASH) sector consultation

Match-making: humanitarian actors, knowledge institutes

& Private Sector

Match offerings with requirements

Testing/ adjusting promising solutions

Bringing innovation to scale

Beyond humanitarian demand...

e.g. PPPs in longer-term settings

Matching humanitarian demand

with supply

Setting priorities 1. Raised latrines 2. Desludging 3. Treatment and disposal


Humanitarian innovation value chain: Exploring & fixing our weakest link

Converge: common priorities and agenda • Platform for humanitarian (WASH) innovation

Inclusiveness: identify local needs, centering innovation more around local communities (but… ‘do no harm’)

Partnership approach: Co-creation of innovative and scalable solutions by humanitarian actors, Private Sector & knowledge institutes

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Aspirations


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critical resilience

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Social capital

Financial capital

Physical capital

Natural capital

Political capital

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Longer-term response

Disaster Response

Longer-term response

Diagram adapted from IFRC’s ‘the road to resilience’

The relief-development continuum

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