Governance for rural sanitation and hygiene
Information and outputs related to governance for rural sanitation and hygiene. WASH Governance is one of the implementing components of the Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All (SSH4A) programme.
Dgroup summary of the Governance for Sanitation and Hygiene learning activity
19 Jan 12
Governance for Sanitation and Hygiene is about how countries, provinces and districts are organising themselves to ensure that all people have access to sanitation and hygiene. It starts by thinking at scale: how can we reach all? And also: how can we make sure that what is achieved today will be sustained?
Logically organising ourselves for sanitation includes coordination, collaboration, pooling of resources, joint planning, clear roles and responsibilities. However, at the moment the responsibility for sanitation is fragmented over different agencies, and in most cases the priority given to sanitation is low. Therefore more leadership and political will is needed to make sure that organisational structures function, that plans with good intentions become a reality on the ground and that resources go to the right places. While leadership for sanitation is needed at all levels, it’s most urgent at sub national level, in districts and provinces, because it’s there where the actions take place.
This document gives a summary of an email discussion on this topic on the WASH Asia Dgroups platform from the 9th of August 2011 till the 9th of September 2011. 120 WASH practitioners from different countries in Asia participated.
Dgroup summary Governance for Sanitation and Hygiene Sept 2011.doc (95.0 kB)
Discussion Programme Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene For All, Kathmandu, 19 Sep 2011
14 Dec 11
"Creating flashes of success is not difficult. The difficulty lies in taking good lessons, examples and approaches to scale", says Mr Suman Sharma, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works Division Nepal at a sharing and learning event in Kathmandu. The event aimed at sharing results and learning from the ‘Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All’ programme and to discuss the way forward to achieve sustainable sanitation and hygiene on a large scale in the five countries.
The meeting was organised by The Ministry of Physical Planning and Works of Nepal in collaboration with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre. This note reflects the key remarks and conclusions of this sharing and learning event
Discussion Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All at Scale- brief report-final.pdf (551.3 kB)
Report Governance for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Workshop, Surkhet, Nepal, 13-17 Sep 2011
14 Dec 11
Report of the Workshop “Governance for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene”, organised by SNV Asia and IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre from 13th – 17th September 2011, in Surkhet, Nepal. This workshop is part of the “Sustainable Sanitation and Hygiene for All” Programme, implemented in Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam with funding from AusAID and DGIS.
Workshop report 13-17 Sep 2011_final_plusannex_lowres2.pdf (1.4 MB)
Asia: Accelerated and sustainable progress in sanitation and hygiene is within our reach, hygiene experts say
20 Sep 11
Kathmandu (MPPW/SNV/IRC): Accelerated and sustainable progress in sanitation and hygiene is within reach in Asia, as long as we aim at district-wide coverage and build a broad alliance under leadership of local governments. This is the main conclusion of sanitation and hygiene experts from five countries (Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia) participating in a workshop on governance for water, sanitation and hygiene organized by the Nepal government together with SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and the IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre from 13 to 17 September 2011.
Newsletter: Insights to the Governance for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Workshop
19 Sep 11
Nepal has an area-wide approach which proved to be successful for scaling up improved sanitation and hygiene. This is one of the lessons learned at the Governance for Rural Sanitation and Hygiene workshop held in Surkhet, Nepal from 13-17 September 2011. There were more lessons learned from Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal and Vietnam. This newsletter provides insight into the topics discussed during the workshop.
newsletter_20bSep2011.pdf (558.4 kB)
