The WASH Cluster

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The WASH Cluster

• The WASH Cluster
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• Global Country Level
• Partnership Challenges

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The Global WASH Cluster who is in it?
The active Global Cluster Working Group
Participants
NGOs ACF, CARE, Concern, CRS, IRC, Islamic
Relief, Mercy Corps, NCA, Oxfam, RedR,
Solidarités, Tearfund,WVI Red C/C IFRC,
ICRC UN UNICEF, WHO, UNEP, UNHCR Consortia
InterAction Institutions CDC Donors
OFDA, DFID, ECHO.
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Workplan of the Global WASH Cluster

• The 5 Strategic Areas
• Coordination and Advocacy
• Information Management Standards
• Capacity Building
• Preparedness
• Best Practice, Learning and Accountability

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Global Support for Country Level
Clusterswww.humanitarianreform.org/WASH
Best Practice for WASH Programming Tools
Guidance
Preparedness Resources
Response Resources

• Tools
• Capacity Mapping
• (WASH Vulnerability, Actor, Systems)
• Cluster Contingency Planning
• Training
• Cluster Coordination
• (Global, Regional, National)
• Awareness Humanitarian Reform
• Hygiene Promotion
• Water, Sanitation
• IM for WASH
• IM for IMers
• Advocacy Human Right to
• Water Sanitation

• Human
• Cluster Coordinator Roster
• Info. Managers Roster
• Resources for Coordination Team
• Rapid Response Team (3)
• Environment Advisers
• Regional Emergency WASH Advisers
• Technical Support Services
• (Remote/In-field )
• Advocacy
• Global Agency Linkages/Advocacy
• Tools
• Cluster Coordinator Handbook
• Rapid Capacity Mapping
• Intercluster Matrices
• Cluster Performance Review

• Hygiene Promotion
• WASH and DRR
• WASH and Accountability
• WASH and Environment
• WASH and Early Recovery
• Information Managment Needs Assessment
• Advocacy Human Right to Water
• and Sanitation
• Standards Policy/Statement
• WASH Cluster Learning
• WASH Floods

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Rapid Response Team

• Three-Person Team
• Deployable within 48hrs notice
• Based in NGOs ACF, CARE Oxfam
• Support to critical sector needs
• Additional support given by RRT
• Rapid needs assessment
• WASH cluster co-ordination
• Technical support
• Development of response strategies and resource
  mobilization

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The Global WASH Cluster Key Factors for a
Functioning Partnership
At Global Level

• Dedicated CAST NY/Geneva
• Background of CAST NGO and Unicef experience
• Joint Analysis of Gaps
• - Shared Vision Commitment to Goals
• Real decision making by the cluster participants
• - Workplan, Funding decisions, Direction/focus
  of work
• Didnt push membership
• Projectisation of workplan meant
• - sharing of responsibilities, commitment
• Joint Field Reviews of Global WASH Clusters
• - seeing it for themselves, feeling the
  change

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The Global WASH Cluster Key Factors for a
Functioning Partnership
At Country Level

• Dedicated WASH Cluster Coordinators (global
  advocacy)
• Training of WASH Cluster Coordinators/Roster (
  partners)
• Rapid Response Team NGO Supported
• (Later) Focus on Dedicated Information Managers
• - Advocacy (in training from global),
  Training, Roster
• Preparedness Capacity Building at
  Country/Regional Level
• - Initial Support, Contingency Planning,
  Capacity Mapping, Training
• Key Regional Emergency WASH Advisers (REWA)
• - Country level support, surge capacity,
  facilitate/initial support to country level WASH
  Clusters, Capacity Building
• - KEY ECHO SUPPORT for REWAS Capacity Building

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The Global WASH Cluster Key Partnership
Initiatives in Delivering at Country Level

• Rapid Response Team ACF, Care, Oxfam
• Global WASH Cluster Stockpile Cluster Agencies
  critical involvement in making it happen (under
  development)
• WASH Cluster Coordinators Secondments
• Technical Support Services a partnership
  approach to enable technical support to the field
  (under development)
• Awareness, promotion, dissemination of
  tools/services
• ALL AGENCIES NEEDED!

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The Global WASH Cluster Challenges

• Understanding/annotation of Principles of
  Partnership
• systematic approaches what does it look like
  in the cluster
• Understanding HR/Cluster Approach
• All humanitarian actors, esp at field level
  (including Unicef)
• - How to apply/use the new accountability
• - Joint prioritisation of needs/use of funding
• Knowledge Management
• - Dissemination Tools, Application of Knowledge
• Integrating Cluster Approach into Preparedness
• where big differences can be made
• Integrated Humanitarian Response
• WASH 4 of Appeal funding Food 53
• Continued Funding Support from Donors
• - Global Country levels

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The Global WASH Cluster The Future

• More intensive focus on implementation at Country
  Level
• - by all agencies
• Knowledge Management
• Awareness Application of Best Practice
• - Sharing experiences
• Key Projects (Responsibilities) Still to be
  implemented Continued
• - Stockpiles, Technical Support Services
• - Rapid Response Team
• Continuing Need for Financial Support
• - to maintain Global Cluster services
  challenges to mainstream