Dgroup summary of the Governance for Sanitation and Hygiene learning activity
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)
