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Michel Becks [email protected]
Demand-driven humanitarian WASH innovations A selection of priorities and solutions
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Key principles in humanitarion assistance
Right to life with dignity Right to humanitarian assistance Right to protection and security
Address emergency thresholds:
• Crude Mortality Rate: 1 per 10,000 per day • Under 5 Mortality Rate: 2 per 10,000 per day
(“Non-crisis” CMR in Sub-Saharan Africa: 0.3 to 0.6 per 10,000 per day, +/- double for U5MR)
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Noticable changes in the humanitarian system
Improved coordination, transparency and predictable response (Cluster system)
Clear standards and indicators (SPHERE) Increased focus on health outcomes (hygiene
promotion/ software...) Addressing/ absorbing trends:
• Cross-sector working • Resilience building • Green response • Cross-cutting issues: Gender, disability
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Challenges remain…
Natural disasters, and other shocks such as human pandemics and conflict, are likely to occur more often in urban settings
More than half of the refugees now served by UNHCR lives in urban areas; Forming new high density settlements, settling in urban slums or living with host families
River flooding poses a threat to over 379 million urban residents
Over 283 million urban people could potentially be affected by earthquakes
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Water supply Water Treatment,
particularly bulk and point of use household filters, including cost and sustainability issues
Low-tech solutions that are acceptable and can be sustained by local people
Study carried out through the Humanitarian Innovation Fund
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Sanitation Latrines in locations where no pits
are possible (urban, high water table/flooding)
Latrine emptying and desludging Final sewage disposal options
after desludging and treatment Community Led Total Sanitation
(CLTS) and sanitation marketing Urban alternatives for excreta
disposal Further develop non-toilet options
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Hygiene Promotion/ software Hand washing hardware and
promotion and sustainability Non-soap options Approaches that are suited to
the local context • Behaviour Change Communication • Data collection and feed-back
using mobile devices
‘Other’ issues Programming across the relief-development continuum
• Sustainability • Integrate exit strategies from the onset
Greater involvement and coordination • With existing local NGOs and NGO development programmes • With other clusters
Urban disasters Create an evidence base: Impact of WASH interventions on
health outcomes Attention to sanitation and hygiene promotion (‘Getting the
balance right’) Impact of the SDGs on humanitarian action
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Transformation management intensity
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• Many innovations but within some silo’s (sectors/ organisations)
• No shared vision • Underdeveloped coordination
Conservative
• Shared but underdeveloped vision • Limited, but traditionally strong
innovation • Strong coordination/ control • Active in building innovation capacity
and culture
Innovation Leader
• Strong shared vision, governance and coordination
• Vibrant innovation chain with measurable added value
• Strong innovation culture
Beginner
• Management sceptical towards innovation in its organisation
• (Potentially) some experiments • Immature innovation culture
Creating a culture of innovation
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The innovation process
Developing Functional Requirements
Intensive (WASH) sector consultation
Match-making: humanitarian actors, knowledge institutes
& Private Sector
Match offerings with requirements
Testing/ adjusting promising solutions
Bringing innovation to scale
Beyond humanitarian demand...
e.g. PPPs in longer-term settings
Matching humanitarian demand
with supply
Setting priorities 1. Raised latrines 2. Desludging 3. Treatment and disposal
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Humanitarian innovation value chain: Exploring & fixing our weakest link
Converge: common priorities and agenda • Platform for humanitarian (WASH) innovation
Inclusiveness: identify local needs, centering innovation more around local communities (but… ‘do no harm’)
Partnership approach: Co-creation of innovative and scalable solutions by humanitarian actors, Private Sector & knowledge institutes
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Aspirations
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Social capital
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Physical capital
Natural capital
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resilience level
Longer-term response
Disaster Response
Longer-term response
Diagram adapted from IFRC’s ‘the road to resilience’
The relief-development continuum
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