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General
Session Title: S5 – Sanitation and Water for All’s Support to Country Led Planning
Date/ Time: 19 July, 2011, 10.00 – 13.00
Convened by: SWA – Darren Saywell Notes taken by: Jason Cardosi (wsp)
Speaker(s) and their presentation title(s):
10:00 Opening - Dr. Darren Saywell, Chair
I. Country Led Planning
10:05 Introduction of NPRI– Mr. Dominick de Waal, WSP
10:15 The Ghana Compact – Mr Demedeme Naa Lenason, Government of Ghana
10:25 Liberia’s Commitment and Action: Liberia’s Joint Mission, Compact Development and Beyond – Mr.
George Yarngo, Assistant Minister, Government of Liberia
10:40 Panel Discussion
Ms. Chantal Richey, UNDP GoAL-WaSH, Liberia
Mr. Olivier Germain, Liberia WASH Consortium
Mr. Dominick de Waal, WSP
11:15 Break
II. Aid-Effectiveness
11:45 EU Aid to WASH in Africa – Mr. Per Bertilsson, EUWI-AWG Support Group (SIWI)
11:55 Targeting and Utilization of WASH investments – Mr. Tom Slaymaker, WaterAid
III. Effectively Utilizing Resources for Improved Planning
12:05 Discussion – Facilitated by Dr. Darren Saywell, Chair
What are other countries doing to strengthen planning? What role do donors and
development partners play? What are the obstacles to improved planning at country level?
What role can SWA’s NPRI and SWA Partners play at country level to support the
Government to address the obstacles?
12:45 Commentator
12:55 Summary – Dr. Darren Saywell, International Water Association and SWA Steering Committee
Core Messages and Lessons Learned
Please note most important messages for sanitation stakeholders that can contribute to achieving improved sanitation in
Africa and add the according lessons learned and/or actions required.
Message and, if applicable, speaker Lessons learned/ Actions required
Intro Lessons on action at national level:
Planning for adsorptive capacity is essential (from intro)
National planning is key constraint to Political buy-in is crucial (from Liberia)
achieving goals. Planning processes key to developing policy (from Ghana)
Section 1 – Country Led Planning Lesson on Aid (from EU Aid):
Dominick EU aid not targeted to needs
Where can Sanitation and Water for EU aid favours donor darlings and ‘orphans’
All help? African countries rely heavily on Aid for sanitation
High level advocacy Aid is driven by EU donors rather than governments; little
Evidence based decision making coordination between donors
National planning for results
initiatives Actions required (from EU Aid):
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National Planning for Results donors
Initiative (NPRI) targets countries Improve targeting
that are off track to achieve the Reduce fragmentation and small contributions
MDGs and do not have a sector Establish joint donor funds
program or working donor Urgent coordination need
coordination and donor-government Promote relevant indicators
dialogue Enhance donor self-coordination
Liberia
Government has developed WASH Governments
compact and established partnership Capacity needs to be developed
for planning process focused on: Strengthen partnership leadership
Strengthen management
Institutional capacity Full commitment to eThekwini
Capacity Improve monitoring
Monitoring system
Improve financing Water Aid to
mechanism governments:
Ghana
Increase allocation in line with targets and commitments
Developed National strategy
stronger leadership
lagging, and specifically:
core systems for service deliver
Political buy in
transparency and accountability
Technical Capacity
pro poor
Planning and monitoring
donors:
Established working groups, carried
at least double aid flows (USD 10bn)
out briefings for key directors,
prioritize sanitation and hygiene
drafted a compact drafted, and
carried out ministerial briefings prioritize sub-Saharan Africa
Preparation for a high level meeting simply and align procurement and reporting
included engaging the Minister of provide targeted multi-disciplinary approaches
Finance to read out the everyone should improve:
commitments. High level support
Equity
Key messages from commentators (Chantal Transparency and accountability
and Olivier): Quality of reporting
A Compact engages policymakers Monitoring
and gets action – shortens policies –
makes them clean and simple
The compact helps to develop key
priorities to overcome challenges –
Section 2 – Aid Effectiveness
EU Aid
Key message to European Union Water
Initiative – Africa Working Group (EUWI
AWG) Partners
Increase funding:
Improve aid effectiveness - EU code
of conduct based on Paris
declaration
Build African leadership capacity
Renew commitments
Tom Slaymaker, WaterAid,
Increasing investment in water supply and
sanitation (WSS) and hygiene where it is
needed most:
Aid is not adequate and is not going to the
right places – mostly going to ‘large systems’
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rather than ‘basic systems’ which works in
favour of urban and rich people (however
data from 2009 may signal a reverse to this
trend). Main messages:
There are more loans than grants
which raises implications on
repayment and targeting the poorest
Aid does not go to countries where
greatest needs are.
Top 10 aid target countries account
for 35% of WSS aid
Top 10 donors account for 88% of
aid
Financial absorption – WASH sector
faces challenges common to other
inf: Donors focus on capital
expenditure and government
struggle to meet recurrent costs.
Various reporting requirements are a
burden
Section 3 - Effectively using resources for
improved planning
Erma Uytewaal, IRC
What are other countries doing?
What role do donors and development
partners play?
Mauritania – network of donors and
partners
Liberia – Consortium of partners.
Good model for post conflict
situations
Ethiopia – national sanitation and
hygiene task force with a goal of
100% coverage 2020
Brazil – has good model of utility
reporting
Egypt –tracking value of assets per
person
Discussions
Please note core content of relevant discussions among speakers, panel members and from the audience.
Topic of discussion Areas of consensus, disagreement or recommendation
The niche for SWA Many countries will not meet MDGs, and there is a need for a
Where do cities, mayors, local call to action at the political level
governments fit in? Planning and finance is a key bottleneck to the achievement
How do you involve private sector? of the MDGs
How do you know funding goes to Countries can take the initiative and build strong systems that
beneficiaries? are acceptable to donors
Will the EU simplify reporting and EUWI and donors can try to identify way to simplify reporting
procurement? and procurement, though this is a challenge.
How improve success rate due to Donors need to work with each other and governments – ie.
transaction costs etc.? JMP harmonizing indictors, Global Annual Assessment of
From a government perspective, Sanitation and Drinking Water (GLASS) work.
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trying to achieve donor harmonization Look beyond the WSS sector, ie international aid transparency
is a challenge. initiative
Money and capacity are cyclical (it is not a question of which
comes first) – ie seed money needed for capacity, then scale,
more capacity, etc.