Learning for Practice and Policy in Sanitation

Learning for Practice and Policy in Sanitation LeaPPS -towards accelerated coverage and use in household and school sanitation and hygiene Version Inception Session-1 July 2007 By Jo Smet, IRC Int. Water & Sanitation Centre

The household sanitation situation in Uganda DHS=Demographic & Health Survey Uganda Bureau of Statistics

Overall observations Household Sanitation

Using DHS data: hardly coverage increase

What about your district and sub-county?

Latrine coverage range (JSR 2006): 2% (Kotido) to 95% (Rukungiri)

Lowest coverage in Northern and North-Eastern districts

No data on use of latrines

School sanitation and hygiene

UPE high increase in enrolment

Most Primary Schools separate girls, boys and teachers latrines

Physical and hygienic condition latrines questionable to poor; cleaning frequency too low for high usage

So privacy older girls not ensured: risk for absenteeism

Urinals only for boys

Limited no. of latrines for students with physical disabilities

About 60% of Primary Schools do not have hand washing facilities; 80% do not have adequate water supply

What about your district and sub-county?

School sanitation situation: pupils per stance

Good practices in Uganda

For instance,

Rakai District,Nsumba village (“cleanest in Uganda”)

Kabale District, Kigezi Diocese (women groups)

Busia District - Dabani sub-county (Local Gov’t through bye-laws)

Gulu District - IDP Camps Health Clubs - CARE

HEWASA; VAD; Busoga Trust

PPP on Hand-washing campaign

Good practices in your district or sub-county, please share and we all learn

Enabling environment household and school sanitation and hygiene

Adequate policy environment

Kampala Declaration on Sanitation (1997): vision, 10 strategic actions and political will

What about support from your councillors?

National strategy for financing of Improved Sanitation and Hygiene (ISH)

MoU between ministries dealing with water, sanitation, health and education

Pro-active National Sanitation Working Group

How pro-active is your DWSC?

Active WASH Cluster of NGOs/UN active in North Uganda

Several good information products (production supported by Development Partners e.g. WSP, UNICEF, WaterAid)

Capacity building: project-specific not coordinated

Areas for improvement-1

Functioning of District Water and Sanitation Committees in planning, harmonisation, coordination and implementation

Involvement district and sub-county ‘champions’ and local politicians ( councillors , MPs)

Involvement of NGOs and Private Sector in district and sub-county coordination

Harmonisation of funding from different sources at district level - being worked on!

Capacity Building: from project-specific to harmonisation and coordination

Training materials : coordination in production and sharing

Areas for improvement-2

Use of National Guidelines at decentralised levels

Communication between national and district

Documenting and versioning of good practices for practitioners and field staff

Sharing of good practices with practitioners and field staff; trans-district learning

Sharing of non-Ugandan good practices

Joint learning for effective practice/implementation (at district/sub-county level);

Learning for policy reform and strategy reformulation (at national and district level)

Learning for Practice at District level Sharing Learning NGO NGO NGO NGO Private Sector Private Sector TSU Water Council Education Health District Water and Sanitation Committee PLUS Communication to/from national level Communication to/from sub-county level politicians champion

Learning for Practice at Sub-county level Sharing Learning NGO CBO CBO CBO Private Sector Private Sector CBO Council Education Health Sub-county Water and Sanitation Committee PLUS Communication to/from district level Communication to/from village/schools level Implementation and feedback Implementation and feedback politicians champion

Learning structures for Practice and Policy Community level: Focus Household Sanitation & Behaviour Primary Schools: Focus Sanitation Facilities & Hygiene Behaviour Sub-county level Multi-stakeholder Learning Team District Water and Sanitation Committee PLUS National Sanitation Working Group Regional level Multi-stakeholder Learning Platform (AfriSan plus) Information/Resource Centres/PS outputs: Info Products & Services Learning Facilitation Capacity Building

Multi-stakeholder learning platforms -why?

If you always do what you did,

you will always get what you got!

Multi-stakeholder learning platforms -why/what?

break down barriers to both horizontal and vertical info sharing

speed up processes of identification, development and uptake of innovation

carry out innovation and learning within a group of practitioners, researchers, policy makers and dev’t partners, the ‘engine’ for uptake and replication

ensure innovation in realistic context (institutional, organisational, financial) for a given district, small town or city for quick uptake and upscaling

create an honest and open environment to share lessons learned – particularly failures

create an environment in which flexibility and adaptation to local circumstances become the norm when dealing with complex problems

Multi-stakeholder learning platforms -what?

If you want to get what you have not got,

you will have to do what you have not done!

Action Learning Cycle Source: Gonzalez & Meitner

Expected Outputs & Outcomes

Functioning and effective Multi-Stakeholder platforms at district (DWSC) and sub-county level (SCWSC?)

Effective learning&sharing methods developed and applied at EA-regional, national, district and sub-county level

More harmonised and coordinated approaches and support (demand-responsive) with clear roles for NGOs and private sector

More cost-effective household and school sanitation programmes from innovative approaches

Cost-effective and innovative capacity building methods and materials at district and sub-county Versioned information and documentation products for practice and policy on good HH / school sanitation and hygiene