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KnowledgePoint: cross-organisational enquiry handling for life-saving expertise across the globe

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Capturing the humanitarian imagination
Capturing the humanitarian imagination

KnowledgePoint: cross-organisational enquiry handling for life-saving expertise across the globe

Organisation:

IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre

Partners:

WaterAid, Practical Action, RedR, EngineerAid and local partners

Location:

Global

Challenge(s) addressed:

  • Existing and future high demand for reliable and timely expertise in field operations from those who need critical, technical advice or information
  • Duplication and inefficiency in having isolated support services

Innovation Factor: inventing shared processes and developing a supporting ICT platform, allowing local stakeholders and international organisations to pool technical expertise, delivering and tracking life-saving information responses.

Added Value: increasing the range of expertise open to enquirers, raising peak direct support capacity during emergency response, improving links to and utilisation of existing knowledge bases, providing a range of data on enquiry levels and type.

Innovation Phases Description:

  1. Recognition: Opportunity identified and systematically documented;
  2. Invention: Collate stakeholders’ requirements to invent a common process and develop prototype for participatory review.

Key Deliverables / Impact: Deliverables for this phase include:

  • To work with partners to invent and test a shared organisational process that enables technical support services to become more integrated, more collaborative and more reciprocal between stakeholders
  • To identify technologies to support this process, and to create a proof-of-concept prototype

 

Source  http://www.humanitarianinnovation.org/projects/small-grants/knowledgepoint

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Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health Newsletter

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Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health
Newsletter N° 149 / 1 February 2012

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JMP thematic report 2011 published
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation published its 2011 thematic report Drinking Water: Equity, safety and sustainability. Based on the 2008 datasets, the report investigates access to and use of drinking-water in greater detail than is possible in the regular JMP progress reports, and includes increased disaggregation of water service levels and analyses of trends across countries and regions.  Download from www.wssinfo.org

 

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HWTS News
The WHO/UNICEF/UNC International Network on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage will organize a HWTS session at the 6th World Water Forum on 14 March 14:30-16:30. The session will focus on the international target of having, by 2015, 30 additional countries with national policies regarding household water treatment and safe storage. Policy options will be linked to proven solutions, effective implementation and regulation. HTWS Network members attending the WWF6 are asked to contact Maggie Montgomery (montgomerym@who.int) who coordinates the HWTS target session.

 

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More HWTS News
HWTS Network members working closely with government counterparts are encouraged to assist their counterparts in completing the online HWTS survey available in English, French and Spanish. http://www.who.int/household_water/advocacy/en/

 

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February 1, 2012 at 10:08 am Comments (0)

WASA Chief Says Rawalpindi Water to be tested for Quality

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RAWALPINDI:  

The water being provided to Rawalpindi will be tested for its quality, Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) said on Tuesday.

Wasa Managing Director (MD) Raja Shaukat Mehmood said the fresh survey is needed to check if clean water is being supplied to the city.

The MD directed the water quality manager to collect samples from head tanks around the city for laboratory testing. Following the lab tests, Wasa teams will start plugging any leaks in the pipelines.

The recently appointed MD said Rawalpindi has three major sources of water: Rawal Dam, Khanpur Dam, and 290 tube wells spread across the city.

The water is supplied after treatment at Rawal Dam and Sangjani treatment plants in accordance with WHO standards, he added.

In a recent meeting, Wasa authorities said that that most tube wells, especially those installed on Nullah Lai’s banks, were equipped with hypo-chlorinators to purify water.

The MD said that a well-equipped water testing laboratory was installed at the Rawal Lake Filtration Plant under the supervision of a qualified manager. Mehmood was briefed on complaints of muddy water being supplied in Aria Mohallah, which was later rectified.

The Wasa chief also appealed to consumers to clean underground and overhead tanks in their houses, for which Wasa will provide free manpower to consumers upon request, the press release said.

Credits:  The Express Tribune, February 1st, 2012.

 

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global forum on sanitation and hygiene , Bombay

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Chief Rapporteur Barbara Evans on the highlights from the Global Forum on Sanitation and Hygiene

by dietvorst

Barbara Evans, chief rapporteur at WSSCC’s Global Forum, discusses the world’s sanitation challenges, themes from the conference, and highlights a couple of inspirational presentations.

 

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The WASH Sustainability Charter

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The Charter

PREAMBLE

We, the undersigned, believe:

  • That the lasting provision of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education (WASH) is a leading development priority of our time. Around the world, almost one billion people live without access to improved water sources, while 2.6 billion people live without access to adequate sanitation facilities;
  • That the lasting provision of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education is key to sustaining human health, education, and economic development, empowering women, and maintaining ecosystems that support all life;
  • That sustainability requires the development of meaningful partnerships that recognize the diverse roles of all actors, including communities, governments, donors, implementers, and all other stakeholders;
  • That our efforts to promote ongoing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene education are critical to the stability and development of communities around the world and can end the needless suffering and premature death of men, women, and children due to waterborne illness;
  • That there are still enormous systemic challenges to providing sustainable safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services in many countries. Most critically, many of those who may have benefited in the short-term from WASH projects now have systems that are not working adequately, or have failed completely.
  • That the premature failure of these solutions is unacceptable.

The first steps in partnering to address these systemic challenges are to build on our successes, learn from our failures, and agree on a shared vision of sustainable WASH services regardless of one’s role or perspective. Specifically, WASH should be viewed in the developing world as it is in the developed world – as a service, not as a project.

Together, we propose to advance sustainable solutions[i] in water, sanitation, and hygiene education through the following mission and guiding principles. These are intended to serve as a common framework that stakeholders[ii] in the sector can agree upon when collaborating with communities in pursuit of these basic services[iii] around the world.

MISSION

To collaboratively promote the delivery of safe water, sanitation, and hygiene services that produce high-quality, lasting benefits to consumers.

PURPOSE

This Charter seeks to align WASH stakeholders around collaboratively developed sustainability principles and catalyze adoption of these principles around the world. In recognition of the many approaches to achieving each principle, the Charter provides a framework for the development of corresponding best practices and metrics to facilitate ongoing learning rather than prescribing specific practices to achieve these principles.

Those endorsing this Charter will strive to incorporate these principles and actively promote WASH sustainability throughout their work. The Charter is an aspirational document, not a governing one. Endorsers agree to pursue the mission and strive towards the principles incorporated in the Charter. It is intended that WASH stakeholders will encourage and assist each other in applying the Charter’s principles, and ultimately, in improving the sustainability of WASH services around the world.

SUSTAINABILITY GUIDING PRINCIPLES

This mission will be enabled by guiding principles in the areas of:

STRATEGY AND PLANNING

In order to ensure that WASH services are properly planned, designed for long-term operation, and coordinated with the local community and other stakeholders, we will:

  • Consider solutions that are equitable, environmentally-friendly, and well-suited to the specific needs and long-term operations and maintenance capabilities of the local community.
  • Align planning efforts with other stakeholders, including development organizations and national/local governments.
  • Meaningfully include consumers and other stakeholders throughout the planning and budgeting processes.
  • Assess full life-cycle[iv] risks during planning and develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
  • Consider the long-term education, capacity-building, and training needs of stakeholders.

GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY

In order to ensure effective management of resources and communication amongst stakeholders, we will:

  • Clearly articulate and document roles, responsibilities, commitments, and expectations of all stakeholders while recognizing the central role of women in WASH solutions.
  • Promote and deliver programs where all stakeholders are accountable to each other and operate in a transparent manner.
  • Evaluate the capabilities and capacity of the consumers, community, and service providers when determining their roles in ongoing service delivery.

SERVICE DELIVERY SUPPORT

In order to ensure that an operational infrastructure is in place to meet ongoing service delivery needs, we will:

  • Develop and promote a local operational infrastructure (e.g. replacement parts, curriculum, maintenance capability, supplier network, etc.) that enables long-term service delivery.
  • Prepare the consumers and/or other stakeholders to take responsibility for the service delivery support processes.
  • Establish mechanisms to educate stakeholders and to ensure that education transmission is sustained over time.

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

In order to ensure that capital is available to meet the full life-cycle costs associated with ongoing service delivery, we will:

  • Utilize financial resources for their intended purposes, as agreed-upon by all stakeholders, throughout the service delivery life-cycle.
  • Establish a long-term financing plan that realistically accounts for all phases of the service delivery life-cycle.

REPORTING AND KNOWLEDGE-SHARING

In order to ensure timely identification of service delivery challenges and to continuously improve our efforts, we will:

  • Utilize appropriate and consistent metrics, evaluation criteria, and tools to monitor and measure performance relative to long-term service delivery throughout the solution life-cycle (including post-implementation phases).
  • Share data and lessons learned – both from failures and successes – in order to provide continuous improvement throughout the sector.
  • Adopt and use consistent financial and operational reporting frameworks.

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ENDORSEMENT

By signing this Charter, we agree to pursue the mission and strive towards the principles incorporated herein, thereby leading the sector toward a vision of WASH as a sustainable service.

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Endnotes

[i] Solutions – Refers to the system or approach used to improve the delivery of water, sanitation, and hygiene in a particular geographic area.

[ii] Stakeholders – Refers to a collective group of individuals (e.g. consumers), organizations (e.g. donors, NGOs, implementers, corporations), and other entities (e.g. local and national governments, private sector actors, ministries of health, etc.) that have an interest or stake in the delivery of WASH services for a particular geographic area.

[iii] Services – Refers to the ongoing delivery of WASH solutions in a particular geographic area. Often this term is used in contrast with projects/programs, with emphasis on the implementation of temporary WASH solutions (often interventions) for a specific community or geographic area.

[iv] Life-Cycle – Refers to all stages of a WASH service improvement, from the preliminary needs assessment through the post-implementation period.

souce    http://washcharter.org/charter/

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