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The IASC WASH Cluster Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

The IASC WASH Cluster Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. WASH Cluster Advocacy and Support Team. Global WASH Cluster Coordinator Paul Sherlock New York Global WASH Cluster Co-ordination - Jean McCluskey Geneva UNICEF Cluster capacity building Nick Willson New York.

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The IASC WASH Cluster Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

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  1. The IASC WASH ClusterWater, Sanitation and Hygiene

  2. WASH Cluster Advocacy and Support Team • Global WASH Cluster Coordinator Paul Sherlock New York • Global WASH Cluster Co-ordination - Jean McCluskey Geneva • UNICEF Cluster capacity building Nick Willson New York

  3. Responsibility of Global Cluster Leads • Standards and Policy Setting (including Best Practice) • Building Response Capacity (including training, surge capacity, standby roster, stockpiles) • Operational Support (capacity assessment, emergency preparedness, access to technical expertise, advocacy & resource mobilisation) • ensuring system-wide preparedness & technical capacity to respond to emergencies • ensuring greater predictability and more effective inter-agency responses • achieved through establishing broad partnership bases (i.e. “clusters”) that engage the achievement of these responsibilities

  4. Global WASH Cluster Partners NGOs ACF, Oxfam, IRC, WVI, CRS Concern, CARE, NCA, Red R ICMH, (IMC) Red Cross IFRC, ICRC UN UNICEF, WHO, UNEP, UNHCR, OCHA Consortiums InterAction, (SCHR/ICVA) Inst. CDC. CEHE Donors OFDA, DFID, ECHO.

  5. Implementation - The Working Group Approach • Agencies have specific strengths/comparative advantages • Value and contribution to make in developing the sector globally – desire to harness these strengths for the sector as a whole • The strengths of all different agencies together are much greater than the capacity of any one agency • Cluster lead has responsibilities and accountabilities – but these can only be achieved by working together • Implementation supported by the Cluster Support Team – ensuring it happens

  6. Working Structure Global WASH CAST (UNICEF) (Cluster Advocacy & Support Team Internal Lead Agency Support Interagency Global Cluster Workplan Support UNICEF Capacity Building Inter-cluster/sector links

  7. Working Structure Global WASH Workplan Principles Project Management • Shared ownership of workplan • Joint decision making • Multi-agency involvement • Project based • 3 levels of involvement • Lead Agency – implementer(s) • Steering Group (CAST +++) • Peer Review Group

  8. Summary of Global WASH Cluster Workplan 5 Strategic Areas • WASH Cluster/Sector Co-ordination • Information Management • WASH Sector Capacity for Humanitarian Response • WASH Sector Preparedness • Best Practice and Learning

  9. 1. WASH Cluster/Sector Co-ordination 1.1 Global Cluster Advocacy & Support Team 1.2 Training & Roster of country-level Co-ordinators …RedR../unicef 1.3 Resources for Initial Cluster Co-ordinator Cell ** NA 1.4 Rapid Needs Assessment Team *NP 1.5 Advocacy & Resource Mobilisation – Tools and Guidance for Clusters and Cluster Co-ordinators Lead by CAST

  10. 2. Information Management 2.1 Systems and Tools - Rapid Needs Assessment - Detailed Needs Assessment - Who What Where in WASH - Gap Analysis - Monitoring (Benchmarks and Indicators) - Mapping needs (Done in co-ordination with OCHA and other clusters) Lead by Oxfam and IRC

  11. 3. WASH Cluster/Sector Capacity for Humanitarian Response 3.1 Hygiene Promotion – coherence, tools, guidance, training, resources, mentors , Oxfam 3.2 Training for Capacity Building – Development and roll-out 3.3 Standby Arrangements for accessing Technical Expertise 3.4 Agency specific capacity building in WASH

  12. 4. WASH Cluster/Sector Preparedness 4.1 Global & National Capacity Mapping Frameworks 4.2 WASH Cluster Awareness Workshops 4.3 Interagency Preparedness & Contingency Planning 4.4 Global WASH Stockpile

  13. 5. Best Practice and Learning 5.1 Learning – Reviews of WASH cluster implementation 5.2 Cross Cutting Issues Publication for WASH 5.3 Environment –guidance, tools, Field Advisory Support 5.4 Early Recovery - guidance, tools 5.5 Disaster Risk Reduction - guidance, tools 5.6 Accountability in WASH Programming - guidance, tools 5.7 Vulnerable Groups and WASH Programming - guidance, tools (children, older people, disabled)

  14. WASH Cluster • Take an example, how it works for us

  15. Global WASH cluster….what is it • Every large scale emergency, now a system. Between global and field. • Operational ngo’s already engaged and have an expectation of what to happen • Global WASH now looked at this inLiberia , Java Uganda ,Philippines and recently Moz. (RTE) • Collected these lesson learnt for OCHA training course • We are planning to bring ALL WASH cluster leads so far together in July in Nairobi. (mostly unicef) • Backing up system , soon to be 7 Emerg.WASH Advisers (unicef). These funded out of both capacity building and other cluster donors ie ECHO

  16. At a Country/Regional level WESNET meetings in all areas cluster being rolled out • Every area will follow up with training. (part of RedR work) • Linking in with work being done by DHR and RedR on the global roster and training at Global and regional level • From this comes UNCT with the Gov planing recently in Timor Leste and a little in Somalia • Next month an up dating of the UNICEF office in Ethiopia with some briefing for the Gov.

  17. Environmental and Solid Waste issues..we are planning work in this area but little done yet. • The lastest thing from our learning Project was a Review of our WASH Cluster Strategy. • This was to see if we were going in the right direction and the we still had our feet in the water and hands in the …..

  18. Is WASH Cluster complementary/compatable with UNICEF’s established policies and commitmentsie the CCC’s • YES one full time member of the CAST is focused only on internal UNICEF. We see as the cluster grows then UNICEF ‘s capacity has to grow. • Example .We` have a global cluster capacity mapping of equipment used by the agencies and where its stored and do we need more of it etc. We have the same going in UNICEF and its equipment and how we get it out quicker. These two will very soon come together

  19. Some areas where everyone is involved • Hygiene Project lead by Oxfam with global office support from UNICEF . Very soon first phase will be rolled out. (very much in support of the YEAR of SANITATION 2008) • In the WASH cluster we are looking to build capacity in the sector agencies as well as unicef. But we recognise UNICEF unique in child focus work and have requested money in this years appeal for work in preparedness in schools

  20. Linking with Other Clusters • Camp Co-ordination and Camp Management – Developing MoU on roles of each cluster in camps • Shelter – NFI responsibility; ensuring WASH facilities integrated into shelter in emergencies/recovery • Developing MoU withUNHCR for Refugee Situations • Nutrition &Health – potentially on inter-sectoral needs assessment. • Meeting of Cluster leads for Health, Nutrition, WASH …Planned joint meeting 19th-20th June 2007

  21. Thank you

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