WASH WG UPDATE

Geordie Woods, Sightsavers Yael Velleman, WaterAid ICTC WASH WG Co-chairs

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Key tasks and progress to date

• • • WG established January 2014 • • • Key outputs: Principles for Facial Cleanliness & Environmental Improvement F&E planning tool Continued work with MI&E WG to input on common indicators for F & E.

Research into use: Dissemination of current research and consolidation of findings to ICTC and others more broadly

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Principles for F & E

Partnership & participation Sustainability Equity, inclusion, non discrimination Integration Evidence

Purpose:

government efforts Joint advocacy to guide ICTC members and others in support of national Sustainable social & behaviour change Tracking progress & measuring success Ownership

Trachoma elimination

[Or - Health? equity? Poverty reduction?]

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Viable financing

Trachoma experience cont.: F&E Planning Tool

To guide stakeholders supporting national trachoma elimination programs through the coordinated design and delivery of F and E components of the WHO SAFE strategy.

Trachoma Elimination:

Principles, Planning, and Resources for F & E

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Planning tool roll-out, revision and scale

• • • • ‘First Phase’ – Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia Feedback and revision – end October 2014 Scale up use to non-funded countries – April 2015?

Wider use for NTDs – WHO?

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The London Roundtable

Collaborating to address key gaps:

Follow on from Seattle: • • Monitoring Joint Work Planning • Broad set of stakeholders: Participation included Morbidity Management and Disability Prevention, WASH monitoring and academic stakeholders

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What we agreed to prioritize:

1. Monitoring and Indicators

• Specific hygiene indicators were identified • Use of existing water and sanitation indicators • Challenge to mobilize/consolidate a set of indicators • to be used for NTDs and WASH globally Proposal of specific NTDs as proxy for measuring impact of WASH programmes

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What we agreed to prioritize:

2. Financing

• Donor coordination/advocacy increased • Possible use of multi-donor pooled funds for financing • joint interventions investigated WASH and NTDs on the SWA HLM agenda

3. Broadening common knowledge of WASH/NTDs

• Scaling up the use of joint planning tools [F&E Toolkit, NTD WASH Manuals, WHO Program Managers Guidelines] • WASH/NTD research collated in a repository.

• Training materials created • WASH representation on relevant NTD technical advisory committees

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What we agreed to prioritize:

4. London Scorecard -

Seeking to establish a united WASH voice within the Uniting to Combat NTDs coalition • WASH progress included • Opportunities for GLAAS measures to be incorporated explored • Specific WASH indicators to be included in NTD programmes determined 5. London Roundtable Policy Paper 6. The beginning of a ‘Community of Practice’

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