Drawing from the FANSA's experience of engaging with SWA, Ramisetty Murali from Fresh Water Action Network South Asia (FANSA) made a presentation on the topic of "Learning and achievements of SWA Global platform and its relevance to achieving Hygiene and Sanitation Development in India".

1. "Learning and achievements of SWA
Global platform and its relevance to
achieving Hygiene and Sanitation
Development in India"
India WASH Summit
17th February 2015, New Delhi
Presentation by:
R. MURALI, Regional Convenor - FANSA

2. About SWA
Global Partnership Platform formed in 2009
for universal access to safe water and
adequate sanitation.
SWA is aimed at:
1. Increasing political prioritization of
WASH

3. Priority areas of work
2. Promote coordinated action
3. Develop strong evidence base for
informed decision-making on WASH
4. Strengthen the accountability between
Governments and development
partners

4. Current Partnership and
Structure
 97 partners including 48 National
Governments and 5 from SA
 A Chair and Vice-Chair who
provide high-level direction.
 Steering committee and task teams
 Secretariat housed by UNICEF NY

5. Action
 Partnership Meetings- 2012
and 2013
 Sector Ministers Meetings
 High Level Meetings-2010,
2012, 2014
 Monitoring of progress on
commitments

6. Summary of Hygiene commitments
Policy and Plans:
 Hygiene must be a key component in the sector policy
and plans
 Integrated Hygiene strategy at the national level
 Decentralized plans and targets

7. Summary of Hygiene Commitments
Coordination and Alignment:
 Integrate hygiene into Health and
Education Sectors and develop prgramme
framework for implementation
 National Task teams to track progress and
hygiene outcomes

8. Summary of Hygiene Commitments
Means:
 Skilled Human resources at all levels through
nationwide training strategy
 Adequate financial resources separately for
Hygiene promotion
 Dedicated budget for Hygiene education to be
ensured by Donors in the WASH programmes
funded by them
 Prioritization of Hygiene within the overall WASH
portfolio of donors
 Engaging media, Private sector and NGOs

9. Tracking Hygiene Progress:
Establish National level mechanism to ensure
- Database
- baselines
- indicators
- reporting
- review
- monitoring and evaluation
- Research and Evidence collection on health
outcomes
Summary of Hygiene Commitments

10. Key achievements- HLM 2010
 19 National Governments and 13 donors
joined together to address the WASH
challenges
 Countries and donors made 165 and
74commitments respectively
 On majority of the commitments progress is
reported by both countries and donors
 The progress on water and sanitation in 15
developing countries is significantly
influenced by HLM Commitments

11. Key Achievements- HLM 2012
 Brought together ministers responsible for finance,
development co-operation, water and sanitation and
heads of the world’s leading water and sanitation
agencies.
 415 commitments to address barriers to delivering
sustainable water & sanitation services.
In 2014, partners reported progress:
 50 Completed
 31 Almost Completed
 186 Good Progress
 105 Slow Progress
 15 Major Barriers

12. Key Achievements- HLM 2014
 43 countries and 12 donors tabled 309 and 70
commitments respectively
 18 countries committed to eliminate open
defecation by or before 2030
 35 countries recognized that the elimination of
socio-economic and geographic inequalities is
fundamental to achieving the goal of universal
access.

13. Some challenges
 Highly diversified needs and expectations
 Inadequate regional and country level
partnership in line with the spirit of global
partnership processes
 Change of political leadership leading to
inconsistency in engagement
 Hard evidence needs to accompany the talk on
commitments and accountability
 Countries with huge figures of ‘unreached
population’ are not on board

14. Need and Relevance for India to be
part of the SWA
 To be part of the global movement to raise the
profile of sanitation and water and improve
sustainable service delivery.
 To understand emerging priorities and challenges
from the global WASH scenario and accordingly
update country’s vision and mission for accelerated
progress on WASH
 To have voice at the table with the world’s leading
agencies shaping future approaches to water and
sanitation development,
 To be part of designing new instruments and

15. Need and Relevance for India to be
part of the SWA
 To join the ongoing dialogue on eliminating
inequities and align country strategies
 To influence development partners to align and
support National Mission, plans and programme
 To seek and contribute to the knowledge and
evidence on addressing the key bottlenecks in
WASH sector in order to speedup and scale up
the relevant strategies at the country level for
country targets on water and sanitation.

16. Thank you
“A fundamental requirement to success in bringing about
complex change is a willingness to transform yourself,
your environment and your institutions so that you have
space for completely different ways of thinking, groups of
people and actions. There must be a clear and central
purpose to which everybody is united. But we still have to
be able to demonstrate that the results are really coming
through … this is part of accountability. ”
Dr David Nabarro, at the 2013 partnership meeting