Small-scale Water Supplies and Sanitation: issues in the region and activities in the programme of work under the Protocol

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Small-scale Water Supplies and Sanitationissues
in the region and activities in the programme of
work under the Protocol

• Oliver Schmoll and Bettina Rickert GermanyFranti
  sek Kozisek Czech RepublicSascha Gabizon and
  Margriet Samwel WECF

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Small-scale supplies and sanitationWork
programme 2007 - 2009

• Assess problems and health-related risks
  small-scale water supplies identified as the
  priority risk area
• Share experience, information and good management
  practices
• Sanitation voluntary activities of WECF

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Small-scale water suppliesWorkshop in Bad
Elster (Nov 2008)

• Backbone of water supply in rural areas
• Common challenges
• Lack of political attention
• Differently regulated
• Poor compliance
• Sense of responsibility
• Lack of access to support networks
• Limited resources

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Small-scale water supplies Workshop in Bad
Elster (Nov 2008)

• Positive cost-benefit ratio
• Water Safety Plan (WSP) is a viable management
  approach
• Need for guidance and advocacy materials

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Small-scale water supplies Awareness raising
document

• What are small-scale water supplies?
• Why are small-scale water supplies important?
• What are the challenges?
• What is the evidence?
• What are the cost and benefits of interventions?
• How can Water Safety Plans support improvement?
• How can an enabling environment be created?
• Networking and resource materials

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Small-scale water suppliesWG Water and Health

• 2nd meeting (July 2009)
• Continuation of work endorsed
• WG entrusted Germany with preparing a proposal
  for the Programme of Work for 2011-2013
• 3rd meeting (May 2010)
• Sanitation as integrated component suggested
• Draft work programme endorsed
• Czech Republic announced co-lead for the activity
• Re-iterated and confirmed in Parma

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Work programme 2011 2013Programme area 3

• Cross-cutting issue Small-scale water supply
  and sanitation approved by the 2nd MoP in
  Bucharest (November 2010)
• Lead Parties and organizations
• Germany and Czech Republic
• Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF)
• Responsible bodies
• Expert group approach
• Close collaboration with Task Forces

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Work programme 2011 2013Water supply

• Proposed activity areas
• Development of policy and guidance documents
• Improvement of evidence base
• Supporting the application of WSPs
• Facilitating enhanced regional networking
• Complementary to ongoing WHO and EU activities
  and programs

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Work programme 2011 2013Sanitation

• Proposed activity areas
• Development of guidance documents
• Water and Sanitation Plans for Schools
• Facilitating sharing of experience and networking

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Policy advice materialWater supply

• Area for target setting under Article 6
• Development of effective resource-sensitive
  surveillance approaches
• Roadmap for introduction of the WSP into
  policy frameworks
• Capacitating national institutions to play their
  role in providing technical managerial support
• Inter-institutional inter-sectoral communication

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Policy advice materialSanitation

• Policy, institutional and technical guidance
  documents for sustainable waste water treatment
  and sanitation systems
• For municipalities below 10,000 population
  equivalents
• To be used for target setting
• Cost-benefit-analysis of waste water and
  sanitation systems
• In Russian and English

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Improvement of evidence baseWater supply

• Inter-country collaboration for systematic data
  collection plus gap analysis QUESTIONNAIRE
• Continuation of systematic literature review on
  diseases

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Supporting the application of WSSPSanitation

• Water and sanitation plans (WSSP) for schools
• Development of best practice document as a basis
  for up-scaling community-based water, sanitation
  and hygiene monitoring systems

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Enhanced regional networkingWater supply

• Regional workshop to further exchange information
  and experiences
• Building and strengthening collaboration with
  WHO-led SCWSN Network
• Involvement in the EU project on producing a
  technical guidance note on use of WSP-type
  approaches for small scale water supplies in the
  EU (lead consortium KWR and the Scottish
  Regulator)

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Enhanced regional networkingSanitation

• Facilitating sharing of experience and networking
• Web platform in Russian and English with several
  functions
• Database providing information
• Discussion forums
• Policy section
• E-learning training in Russian and English for
  technical personnel

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Options for field work Water supply Sanitation

• Targeted rapid assessments of drinking water
  quality in small-scale supplies
• Pilot small-scale sanitation systems to
  demonstrate benefits costs
• Field projects in pilot areas to bring local
  knowledge data into the baseline analysis
  target-setting process
• If additional funding becomesavailable in due
  course

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Realistic plan for 2011 Water supply
Sanitation

• No funding available for this programme area so
  far (!!) difficult position of WECF
• Planning meeting Prague, 17 January 2011
• Selection of core expert groups (2 groups of 5-12
  experts)
• Proposal of content of policy guidance document
• Proposal of questionnaire
• Extended lead-party planning group in June
  (Germany?)
• Following information to the Bureau and the WGWH
  on possible further progress

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• DANKE
• THANK YOU
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• MERCI