Learning for Practice and Policy in Sanitation and Hygiene

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Learning for Practice and Policy in Sanitation
and Hygiene

• LeaPPS -towards accelerated coverage and use in
  household and school sanitation and hygiene
• Version DWSCC Koboko
• Nov 2007

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WHY LeaPPS?The household sanitation situation in
Uganda

How is Koboko doing? Rural HH sanitation Coverage
. 73?
DHSDemographic Health Survey Uganda Bureau of
Statistics
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• Few specific data on Household Sanitation in
  Koboko
• Reported sanitation coverage 73.3!
• Sanitation not prioritised in district resource
  allocation and practice
• Lack of partnership, cooperation, harmonisation
  between local govt and NGOs/CBOs
• No or limited leadership (political and
  departmental) in SanHyg
• Women and children not fully involved
• Negative attitude of community and local leaders
  towards SanHyg
• EcoSan concept not well understood yet

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Why LeaPPS?School sanitation situation pupils
per stance

How is Koboko doing? 108Pupils/stance
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• Few specific data on Primary School Sanitation
  Hygiene in Koboko
• Pupils per stance 108!
• All schools have at least one pit latrine
• Hygiene standards low filling up rate high
• Poor OM of school latrines
• Parents do not cooperate on building latrines
  they refer to UPE policy - no contribution
  parents required!!
• Lack of funds for mobilisation of school
  communities

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Enabling environment household and school
sanitation and hygiene

• Kampala Declaration on Sanitation (1997) vision,
  10 strategic actions and political will
  Sanitation Week 2007 advocated for support MPs
• Koboko Secretaries very supportive in rural
  SanHyg
• What about support from your councillors? And
  LC3, LC1?
• National strategy for financing of Improved
  Sanitation and Hygiene (ISH) - but this needs to
  be re-packed for local use!
• MoU between ministries dealing with water,
  sanitation, health and education not optimally
  working out! How at Koboko level?
• Active National Sanitation Working Group
  (coordination platform)
• Some good information products not versioned for
  sub-district
• Capacity building project-specific not
  coordinated or harmonised

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Areas for improvement Uganda-wide - 1

• Functioning of DWSCC in planning, harmonisation,
  coordination and implementation
• DWSCC Involvement district and sub-county
  champions and local politicians (councillors,
  MPs)?
• DWSCC Involvement of NGOs and Private Sector in
  district and sub-county coordination
• Harmonisation of funding from different sources
  at district level - being worked on!
• Capacity Building to be harmonised and
  coordinated at local level
• Training materials national local level
  coordination in production and sharing

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Areas for improvement Uganda-wide - 2

• Use of National Guidelines at decentralised
  levels (version these)
• Communication between national and district to be
  better/2-way
• Documenting and versioning of good practices for
  practitioners and field staff
• Sharing of good practices with practitioners and
  field staff learning within and among districts
  and sub-counties
• Sharing of non-Ugandan good practices
• Joint learning for change for effective
  practice/implementation (at district/sub-county)
  with component of action-research and pilots
• Learning for policy and strategy reformulation
  (at national and district level)

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Why multi-stakeholder learning platforms?

• If you always do what you did,
• you will always get what you got!

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Learning for Practice at District level

Communication to/from sub-county level
District Water and Sanitation Committee PLUS

Private Sector
NGO
NGO
Sharing
Council
TSU
champion
Learning
politicians
Water
Health
NGO
Private Sector
NGO
Education
Communication to/from national level
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Learning for Practice atSub-county level

Communication to/from village/schools level
Sub-county Water and Sanitation Committee PLUS
Private Sector

CBO
Council
NGO
CBO
Implementation and feedback
Sharing
Implementation and feedback
champion
Learning
politicians
Health
Private Sector
Education
CBO
CBO
Communication to/from district level
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Learning structures for Practice and Policy
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What is a multi-stakeholder learning platform?-1

• Multi stakeholder platform with members from
  local government departments, local politicians,
  communities, NGOs, private sector, donors,
• Specific focus mutual interest in specific
  topic(s)
• Search for innovations for effectiveness focus
  action-research for approaches in planning,
  implementation and management
• Learning central no top down solutions, but
  learning from each others experiences, sharing
  analysis of problems, sharing experiments

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What is a multi-stakeholder learning platform?-2

• Focus on district and sub-county level
• Intention to scale up through connecting
  stakeholder platforms at different levels down
  (sub-county- parish) and up (district -national)
• designed to optimize relationships and break down
  barriers to both horizontal and vertical learning
• Documentation (of processes) and dissemination
• Innovative capacity building, expanding knowledge
  base

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Keys to making multi-stakeholder learning
platform work!

• A shared understanding of the problem to be
  solved and a common vision and agreed objectives
  (although form can be different).
• (research and learning) Agenda to be demand-led,
  not imposed
• Issues and priorities to be determined by
  stakeholders through negotiation and consensus
• Versioned Knowledge/information products and
  services innovative capacity building
• Multi-level platforms sub county, district and
  national but essential is effective
  communication between them

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Expected Outputs Outcomes, and Effects

• Effective learningsharing methods through LeaPPS
  sessions
• Effective at district DWSCC) and sub-county level
  (SCWSCC)
• Harmonised and coordinated SanHyg approaches
  with clear roles
• Effective communication, planning, implementation
  and monitoring
• More cost-effective household and school
  sanitation programmes
• Cost-effective and innovative capacity building
  and information products
• Increased HH/school latrine coverage
• Increased and sustainable latrine use
• Improved sanitation and hygiene behaviour

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Support to multi-stakeholder learning platforms
in districts

Stimulate Communication With S/C
More sustained San. Hyg Behaviours at
households and schools
External Facilitation
Joint analysis performance
Communities, women groups, schools and local
entrepreneurs empowered and skilled
Share good practices
Harmonised coordinated approaches among local
NGOs and Govt
Capacity devt, innovation
SanHyg on political agenda Political leadership
Stimulate Communication National level
Document experiences
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Suggestions for district and sub-county
multi-stakeholder learning platform

• Institutionalize learning in DWSCCs direct
  linking toLeaPPS session (3-4/year) (1.5 days
  LeaPPS directly followed by meeting DWSCC)
• Agreement on roles in LeaPPS with district Memo
  of Understanding
• Expand DWSCC with more key politicians, NGOs, PS
• Making use of strengths of each stakeholder group
  and agree on specific contributions (both LeaPPS
  and DWSCC)
• Start with available resources (for LeaPPS some
  SNV-IRC-NETWAS funds but explore contribution
  district)
• Search for addition funds together (even if
  small)
• Jointly plan utilisation of (expanded) district
  SanHyg budget
• Link up with the National Sanitation Working
  Group, and national campaigns, larger projects

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Available Capacity Development opportunities

• Nat. Government very keen on DWSCC and LeaPPS
• Government agreed to use TSU for supporting
  LeaPPS
• LGDP has capacity building component
• UWASNET capacity building programme for NGOs,
  HiP, HWC
• Integrate LeaPPS into ongoing programmes,
  HIV/AIDS, PHC, Good Governance
• Other specialized CD service providers SNV,
  WaterAid, UNICEF support, Ug WASH RC (focus KM)