79791 WSP South Asia Results for FY2013 and Expectations for FY2014 What the Government did What WSP did to support the Government TARGETING URBAN POOR AND IMPROVING SERVICES IN SMALL TOWNS INDIA With nearly 30,000,000 households dependent on septic tanks, the Government of India published an BANGLADESH advisory note and committed financial resources for septage management. At the same time the Government of PAKISTAN In Bangladesh 686,600 people were connected to piped water by 33 utilities Madhya Pradesh established plans to improve urban sanitation in 20 million that constitute the water utility network. In Pakistan the Faisalabad Water and WSP supported the establishment of households. The Government Sanitation Agency in Punjab the utility network with the International committed USD 45 million towards this established Pakistan's first pro-poor Benchmarking Network (IBNet). goal. Also the government of cell in the utility to prioritize the need of Karnataka is implementing 24/7 water WSP facilitated a Change Management urban poor for improved water and supply for 2 million citizens. The Training for Union leaders of Dhaka sanitation services. A Rs 161M project government of India has recently Water Supply and Sewerage Authority is underway by the utility to bring launched an ICT-based initiative, SLB in Kampala Uganda. The National 82,000 urban poor into the formal net Connect, to strengthen citizen Water Supply and Sewerage work. WSP supported t h e institutional engagement in monitoring service Corporation (NWSC) responsible for design of the cell, GIS mapping and a levels. WSP assisted in drafting the Kampala water and sewerage services socioeconomic survey through a advisory note on septage arranged the training event. mobile app in a pilot area, and management, provided expert support introduced the staff of the cell to best in designing the Karnataka project, practices in the Africa region. WSP , in supported the creation of the state's partnership with WBI, organized a urban sanitation vision and helped in training program for utility functionaries developing and implementing SLB from South Asia, while India's urban Connect with a survey of 5,200 water supply sector agenda has households. highlighted the need for the reform of utilities. Technical assistance for the program was received from South Africa. SCALING UP RURAL SANITATION AND HYGIENE INDIA PAKISTAN In India the scale-up of open defecation free villages in In Pakistan Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa established Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, Maharashtra, "Urban Policy Unit", a think tank on urban sector issues. WSP Kerala and Rajasthanhas continued and WSP has been supported the government in designing it. supporting districts and the states in adopting a 1.5 million people benefit of improved sanitation, through a community led participatory approach. province-wide scale-up program in 20 districts. WSP guided The Governments of Rajasthan and Meghalaya officially the development of the Pakistan Approach to Total Sanitation. adopted outcome-focused performance benchmarking WSP also provided technical assistance that leveraged to monitor district-level progress in rural sanitation. government funding of PKR 1 billion Sindh, PKR 100M in Rajasthan has also evolved a policy for community led Punjab and PKR 10M in Azad Jammu and Kashmir for rural behavior change. sanitation. WSP provided technical assistance to state In Punjab, a province-wide scale up program benefits 1.35 governments in developing the benchmarking model million people through improved sanitation. WSP supported and supported the designing and disseminating of the the program. WSP also trained 372 communities to become policy in Rajasthan. open defecation free. CREATING SUSTAINABLE SERVICES THROUGH DOMESTIC PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIP BANGLADESH INDIA 71 sanitation entrepreneurs have improved the sanitation In India the government initiated guidance documents to facilities of 89,000 Bangladeshis. This is supported by 6 strengthen public-private partnership (PPP) in urban water micro finance institutions allocating USD 107,000. In supply. It also published a report on non-stateproviders of Bangladesh WSP is working with a leading global rural water supply services to inform states of alternatives in manufacturer of sanitation products. operations and maintenance. The National Water Supply and Sewerage Corporation WSP reviewed the implementation of five PPP projects to (NWSC) responsible for Kampala water and sewerage inform areas to be addressed in guidance notes. WSP also services arranged the training event. prepared the publication with rural water supply case studies from three states, and analytical input on alternatives. 14,523 Bangladeshis were served through extensions by 21sponsors managing piped water supply schemes installed under the World Bank funded Bangladesh Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (BWSSP). WSP developed a system for benchmarking the viability of ruralprivate operators. This is a key piece of advocacy for sponsors to join the BWSSP . SUPPORTING POOR-INCLUSIVE WATER AND SANITATION SECTOR REFORM BANGLADESH INDIA PAKISTAN In Bangladesh, the services for 5 Government of India has set up In Pakistan the government of Punjab million people were improved by 378 support organizations in 10 states to approved Rs 260 million for a "Backup local governments, 75 of which were coordinate a drinking water security support mechanism" for CBOs to newly included, allocating 3 million pilot. WSP trained all officials of the sustain their operation during major dollars to replicate 90 good practices. support organizations in basic repairs, especially in case of natural WSP and partners support local principles of drinking water security, calamities. This has resulted in the governments in replicating the good such as water budgeting, source continued provision of safe water to a practices of their peers. WSP also sustainability and system sustainability. population of over 15 million people. collated audit data on all 4,500 UPs. The India Water Security Pilot is WSP supported the department in responding to depleted ground water undertaking a situation analysis of the The government has started an availability. On the basis of training CBOs' management, developing an initiative to create an open data provided by WSP and support institutional framework for a support platform to improve sector organizations, Gram Panchayats are mechanism and finalizing the coordination of water and sanitation preparing water security plans. WSP is performance-based criteria to ensure sector data. WSP undertook the preparing reports on sanitation and transparent flow and use of funds. Service Delivery Assessment which stunting, as a respond to government's has been adopted in the WSS Open In Punjab the government approved need for research on improving water Data Platform. the Service Delivery Assessment (SDA) and sanitation sector outcomes. to assess their own service delivery WSP also published a map on Hard to pathways for turning scarce finances Reach Areas, using aggregates of into water supply and sanitation context, impact and outcome. A services and also helping donors to strategy for hard to reach areas for ensure targeted financing. WSP water supply and sanitation was Water Supply Coverage (%) supported the preparation of the SDA approved by the Ministry of Local 86.00 from conceiving the idea to fine-tuning Government and National Forum for 84.00 the findings of the SDA report and its Water and Sanitation Sector. 83.78 82.86 analysis to draw a picture of the gaps. 82.00 80.00 78.00 77.65 78.49 Sanitation Hackathon 76.00 In all three countries WSP organized a 74.00 73.62 hackathon for 500 people to find new 72.00 72.00 solutions and raise awareness about 70.00 sanitation in the IT sector. The 68.00 national and local governments supported and participated in the 66.00 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 global sanitation hackathon. Utility benchmarking: Chandpur pourashava Hard to Reach areas in Bangladesh Future Expectations SCALING UP RURAL SANITATION AND CREATING SUSTAINABLE SERVICES HYGIENE THROUGH DPSP In Pakistan, provincial governments and WSP plan to In Bangladesh, WSP will scale up the sanitation showcase pilot projects to the new national government marketing approach, providing support to government as part of the advocacy work aimed at securing political projects, NGOs and private sector in an estimated 450 will to implement large scale-up programs through the local governments. Through the South Asia Food and replication of pilot projects. The provincial governments of Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI), WSP will continue Sindh, AJK, and Punjab are expected to implement CLTS the study on fecaloral pathways exposure, prevalence of / PATS in more districts while moving towards scale-up. diarrhea, and sanitation coverage. In India WSP is planning cooperation with Bank In India WSP will help the government to prepare operations to reduce open defecation and improve advisory notes on project preparation for PPPs in urban service provision in peri-urban areas. water supply and develop standard contract clauses for bid documents. TARGETING URBAN POOR AND IMPROVING SUPPORTING POOR-INCLUSIVE WSS SERVICES IN SMALL TOWNS SECTOR REFORM In Bangladesh, WSP is seeking to expand the knowledge In Bangladesh, WSP will support the replication of good exchange network of benchmarking utilities, to promote practices in water and sanitation to reach an estimated 10 learning on institutional reform alternatives with existing million people by strengthening horizontal accountability and emerging Water and Sewerage Authorities (WASA), processes. This includes drilling down accountability for and to engage with World Bank lending these good practices, building good practices into local operationsproviding services to urban low income government training curricula, and galvanizing the media communities. to link good practices to policy. In India, WSP will help the government to develop WSP will also continue to build on the Hard to Reach Area advisory notes on wastewater recycling and reuse, as well Mapping & Service Delivery Assessment to support the as slum sanitation. WSP will also support the government Government and development partners to establish an to revise the national program guidelines to make these Open Data Platform to strengthen sector coordination more participatory. through improved monitoring instruments. At state level, it is proposed to showcase districts that have been successful in scaling up a participatory In Pakistan, WSP plans to institutionalize the follow-up of approach to move towards a State Wide Approach. The Service Delivery Assessment in Punjab. WSP is also Outcome Tracker mobile to web MIS for monitoring rural planning to provide sector orientation information and sanitation outcomes is proposed to be scaled up at training for newly elected representatives to institutionalize national level and in selected states. In addition, WSP will gender policy targets. support the development of a septage management strategy in two states, and pilot septage management plans in two cities in India. In India, WSP is working with the government to overcome challenges informed by the SDA, through To improve the tracking of service outcomes, WSP will workshops on gender, sanitation and malnutrition and support the adoption of ICT-based citizen feedback M&E. WSP is also working with the ministry to create an through SLB Connect in at least ten more cities. WSP will ICT strategy for government also support the adoption of strategies for poor-inclusive service delivery and strengthened performance orientation through technical assistance to utilities and analytical support to Bank-funded projects. In all three countries WSP is showcasing hackathon achievements at SACOSAN and planning a regional In Pakistan, WSP is planning to develop mobile apps Water Hackathon. based on open data and to provide capacity building for utility staff in generating results from the data. WSP will also support Faisalabad WASA to develop pro-poor policy and strategy.