Making water and sanitation services work for the poor

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Making water and sanitation services work for the
poor

• Some experiences from WaterAid
• and partners programmes

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Without adequate, safe water and sanitation

• Juanita will not go to school
• Joyce and Takele will regularly miss their
  classes
• Safar will just as likely die
• Misra and her newborn baby will suffer from
  infection after childbirth
• Adela will not be able to earn additional income
  and her husband will lose income

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How do you make watsan services work for the poor?

• Understand the water uses of the poor, and map
  their water sources
• varied uses varied sources need for mix of
  services water for domestic, livelihood and
  environment purposes

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• Need for service pluralism different actors,
  different service arrangements, flexible
  combinations
• Centralised service production arrangements (eg
  a water utility in charge of a network) have
  failed to serve the poor.

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• Ban one-size-fits-all approaches in policy reform
  the context is varied
• - DRA that measures demand by willingness to
  pay alone
• - Private sector participation (PSP) as the
  only choice, whatever the conditions

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• Sustainability and affordability as most
  important standards of service
• - Reliable and predictable services for a
  lifetime and beyond
• - Affordability what the poor can pay without
  sacrificing other needs.

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• Multi-stakeholder dialogue, with the
  participation of the poor and their champions
• - design of service
• - investment requirements sources
• - standards of service, and its costs
• - fees and subsidies