wsp – east asia & the pacific: fy07 achievements and highlights for fy08

WSP – East Asia & the Pacific:FY07 Achievements and

Highlights for FY08

Presentation for the 8th Council Meeting, Amsterdam, 4-5 June 2007Almud Weitz, Regional Team Leader, WSP-EAP

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Contents of Presentation

East Asia’s MDG ContextWSP-EAP Program HighlightsFY07 AchievementsHighlights for FY08Challenges Ahead

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East Asia’s MDG Context

Region is broadly on track to meet overall poverty reduction goal….BUT:

Wide disparities among countries in reaching specific goals

Except for the Philippines and Vietnam, all other WSP-EAP countries unlikely to achieve water goal

None of them will reach sanitation goal

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Current Likelihood of Achieving MDGs in EAP

Unlikely to reach the goals

Currently “on track” to achieve goals partly

High coverage, goals achievable

Insufficient data

• 145 million have no access to improved water supplies

• 1 billion have no access to basic sanitation

Indonesia104 MM

Vietnam 47 MM

Cambodia 12 MM

Laos 4 MM

Philippines 21 MM

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WSP-EAP Program Highlights

Dramatic increase in work program: FY07 activity rose 62% as compared to FY06, 179% up on FY05

Strong focus on sanitation and hygiene handwashing with soap

initiatives, city-wide sanitation strategies

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Innovative regional programs such as Sanitation and Water Partnership for the Mekong Region (SAWAP) nationally-led and inter-country

initiatives, including 1 (2) provinces in China

Cross-regional adaptation of successful new approaches community-led total sanitation

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FY07 Achievements

Indonesia - replication of CLTS, coupled with sanitation marketing, in 48 districts nationwide

Vietnam - National Handwashing Initiative to scale up, starting with consumer research study, utilizing PPPs and social marketing

‘Bottom up’ Sanitation and Hygiene:

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FY07 Achievements, Cont.

Communications for Reform:

Communications network set up in all 5 focus countries Laos - IEC materials on hygiene promotion designed by

14 ethnic groups in 4 provinces for dissemination in their local communities

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Decentralization and Governance:

The Philippines - capacity-building of 11 public and private water utilities to enable improved access to financing

Indonesia – under the Water and Sanitation Policy and Action Planning Program (WASPOLA), implementation of the community-based water and sanitation policy has now reached 49 districts in 9 provinces

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Indonesia - ISSDP pilot cities: production of white books/city sanitation strategies broad-based awareness campaigns, and a sanitation

declaration signed by all 6 mayor (Blitar declaration) ‘city-up’ pressure on national government approach being replicated by other cities and projects in the

country

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Domestic Private Sector Participation:

Cambodia - development of interim licensing regime for small private water suppliers

Laos - support to urban private sector providers The Philippines - feasibility study on financing for

private and public small utilities Vietnam - embarking on leading an initiative on

mobilizing the domestic private sector for water supply and sanitation under SAWAP

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Highlights for FY08

Consolidation of progress on the initiatives (ISSDP, SAWAP, SUSEA, TSSM), delivery of first measurable results, scaling up

East Asia Ministerial Conference on Sanitation (EASAN) in Xi’an, China, Nov. 2007 Involving 16 East Asian countries Co-organized by WSP, WHO and Unicef with financial

support from AusAID, DFID and Sida

Economics of Sanitation Initiative – evidence for advocacy to increase investment

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Challenges Ahead

Translating sanitation policy reform and local government capacity building assistance into actual increase in financing and action on the ground

Achieving better monitoring of impacts Managing a fast-growing work program and

increasing staff, and finding suitable staff Working with an increasing regionalized program

without appropriate funding (project funds mostly)

Getting myself up to speed yesterday

Thank you