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Tom Roberts Chief Water Engineer Water and Sanitation Department African Development Bank, Tunisia

Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Initiative (RWSSI) An Africa-wide program

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Strategy: Demand-responsive programmatic approach, partnership building, increased fund mobilisation, fast tracking, promoting the use of appropriate technology

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Objective: 80% access to W+S to rural Africa by 2015

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Targets: water supply - 271 million people

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improved sanitation - 295 million people

 Goal: accelerate sustainable access to drinking water supply

& sanitation

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RWSSI Framework

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Concept: to serve the marginalized rural populations

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Largest RWSS program in Africa

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Endorsed by African water & finance ministers at 1st Int’l Conference on Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Africa (Apr/2005)

• RWSSI: Investment Needs and Financing Plan

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USD 10.4 billion USD 4 billion USD 95 million

9.7 billion USD 4.4

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Financing Plan

Communities Governments AfDB Donors

• Investment Needs
• RWSSI Trust Fund mobilised Euro 117 million
• Donors: Canada, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Switzerland

• Some Achievements of the RWSSI program

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National RWSSI Program Country System for NCB Country System for ICB No Parallel PIU Informati

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National Program Common Planning Framewo rk Annual Sector Performa nce … Budget Support Annual Sector Dialogue

Compliance with Paris Declaration

RWSSI has:

• Mobilized about USD 5 billion
• Progress (June/2011): 31 RWSS

programs in 22 countries

• Access to improved water supply -

33.5 million people, improved sanitation - 21.3 million people

• Increased awareness of African

governments and international community on rural WSS needs

• Increased partnership around

RWSSI

• Supported annual stakeholder

sector review

• Low priority given to rural water sector
• Weak capacity to implement & maintain, no supply chains
• Weak country M+E systems

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• No optimization of partnerships
• RWSSI: Implementation Challenges at Country Level
• Inadequate focus on long term development benefits

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Ownership - “the intended beneficiaries must have a direct stake and sense of ownership at all stages, otherwise projects will not be maintained or will become heavy, unwanted burdens.” OECD How do we perceive the poor ? How do we perceive ourselves ? How do these perceptions affect ownership and sustainability of the infrastructure ?

• RWSSI Implementation Challenges - Paris Declaration

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The Beneficiary

A bundle of problems and needs Suffering from malnutrition and living in weeds Lack of sanitation Little education Poor living quarters No money for orders Unable to join a consumer society No access to modern technology How can such an aggregate of painful ordeals Be expected to offer a solution that appeals ?

Beneficiary, Mr Bauleni Banda

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The Champion

Rights – to decide on technology, content

• f training programs, to have access

Responsibility – to think independently, to generate knowledge, to work tirelessly for the project to advance successfully Implications – on sustainability, etc …

Protagonist, Mr Bauleni Banda

Decentralization

• Increase support of decentralization policies  more capacity for knowledge

generation and decision making at decentralized levels Capacity Building

• Build capacity in individuals (poor & wealthy), communities, & institutions to

decide on selection of RWSS technology and design of RWSS education and communications activities Monitoring & Evaluation

• Annual national conference to review the sector or rural sub-sector 

increased availability of information leading to a common understanding, a more unified vision and greater distribution of decision making

• Establish and support existing M+E systems  ability to openly compare

performance over time by sub-sector + region; encourages greater external scrutiny by exposing RWSS sub sector budgets, leading to internal pressure to reform public financial management

• The way forward: more focus on long-term benefits

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 Mobilize more resources USD 9 billion :

• 2nd Int’l Conference on RWSS in Africa at 6th WWF, April 2011
• Campaign for additional funding from traditional and new donor

communities (direct bilateral support, joint financing, NGOs, better targeted ODA transfers)

• Mobilize Euro 300 million for the RWSSI Trust Fund
• Increase focus on sanitation
• Strengthen collaboration with development partners
• Increase use of country systems
• Align RWSS to climate mitigation and adaptation terms

 Enhance quality of programme preparation

• The way forward: strategic focus

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Framework for Implementation, publisher African Development Bank

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The Lab the Temple the Market, Chapter 4 by F.Arbab, publisher IDRC

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Photo credits: Photos of Bauleni Banda on slides 8,9 courtesy of Duncan McNicholl, Malawi Water & Sanitation Team, Engineers without Borders, Canada

• References (online)

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Thank you!