south asia 102602 Highlights and Activities FY07 Rural Sanitation: Igniting Urban WSS: Improving Rural Water Supply Communications Behavior Change Service Provision And Sanitation For Reform Transformation Planning Scaling-up community led total Documenting development Creating broad-based sanitation (CLTS). of nascent domestic private Supporting state and awareness around the need Supporting development of state/ sector and building capacity provincial level RWSS for reform and reform provincial level programs to ignite for local governments to assessments and sector options upstream. behavior change in four states in engage. transformation planning for Initiated a program for India and two provinces of Supporting utilities across decentralization service UWSS reform Pakistan. the region to institutionalize delivery in India and communications: Media benchmarking and link to Pakistan. partnerships forged to Supporting improved monitoring and evaluation of CLTS program projects, fiscal incentive Carried out studies and provide impetus for change: linked to national awards program programs and regional water assessments of fiscal flows media conclaves organized. in India and new donor programs utility networks. and alignment with in Bangladesh. Supporting design of decentralization policies. Voice And Client Power Initiated scientific studies to institutional and governance Initiated steps to test and frameworks and planning for Services To The Poor evaluate health impacts from total establish mechanisms for the sanitation initiatives. WSS services in smaller Supported a consultative institution of effective and cities and towns in India. process to develop Guidance ongoing citizen engagement Urban Sanitation: Supporting design of Notes on Urban WSS platforms within the six The New Challenge capacity-building assistance services to the poor. WSP-SA reform pilots. program for implementation Documented good practices Developing and testing Providing policy advisory support of National Urban Reform in drafting India’s national urban from water and sanitation mechanisms for citizen Mission in India with World utilities and other sectors engagement in assessing, sanitation policy and revising Bank and DFID. Soild Waste Management rules, summarized as short notes planning and monitoring and Pakistan’s national sanitation Working with service and disseminated among service delivery. policy. providers and CSOs to stakeholders. develop standards for Supporting capacity-building reporting and disclosure on and orientation programs for service provision. sanitation service provision for urban poor, to help cities develop outcome focused city-wide approaches. Supporting design of slum sanitation components in large- scale projects. south asia Highlights and Activities FY08 Supporting The Incorporating WSS Into Translating Policy Into Constructive International Year Of Urban Planning Reality In The Context Of Engagements With CSOs Sanitation Decentralized Service Focus on services to urban Supporting utilities and civil Delivery Supporting development of poor. society organizations to state and provincial Moving from projects to Addressing capacity constructively engage in sanitation strategies and integrated urban planning. constraints of local planning and monitoring fiscal mechanisms. governments. service delivery Documenting and Continuing support to Aligning financial flows with improvements. disseminating good scale-up of CLTS. practices in water resource functional assignments. Creating Broad-based Supporting establishment of protection and water quality Alternate Service Delivery Awareness inter country working group monitoring. Arrangements May 2007 • Designed and printed by: Roots Advertising Services Pvt Ltd for regional knowledge Supporting cities to Supporting strategic exchange. incorporate WSS to the poor Developing models through communication programs Introducing behavior change into their city development which local governments can that will create buy-in and approaches to improve urban plans, and move from project access sector capacities support for the goals of WSS sanitation to the poor. to integrated urban planning. (i.e. small and medium reform projects among key enterprises, community- constituencies. Developing advocacy/ research materials, tools and Improving WSS Urban based organizations, training documentation for decision Service Provision institutes. makers that offer choices Developing guidelines for and support demonstration cost recovery strategies. through pilots to influence national- and state-level Institutionalizing policies and sector benchmarking and linking to transformation. projects and water utility networks.