water: tools and approaches for sustainability
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Presentation prepared to introduce the water track at the 5th WASH Sustainability Forum. By Stef Smits, José Gesti Canuto and Cecilia Scharp. 30 June - 1 July 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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Supporting water sanitationand hygiene services for life
2014 WASH Sustainability Forum
30 June – 1 July 2014
Water: Tools and Approaches for Sustainability
Stef Smits, José Gesti Canuto and Cecilia Scharp
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Defining sustainability for water supply
• Whether water continues to flow over time, and whether it continues to provide an agreed level of service
• Systems may need to be replaced at the end of their life time, but services should be forever
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Two broad approaches to sustainability1. Groups of factors (dimensions) that affect likelihood of sustainability:
• Social
• Technical
• Environmental
• Institutional
• Financial
• Health
• Mainly at community level, but increasingly at other institutional levels
• Seek to be predictive: if all factors in all dimensions are in place, services are likely to be sustainability
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Two broad approaches to sustainability
2. Snapshot of performance in service delivery
- Sustainability manifests itself through level of service to the user (whether water flows and with what characteristics
- Depending on performance in service delivery by:
- Service provider, responsible for daily operation, maintenance and administration
- Service authority, responsible for planning, coordination, support and oversight roles (typically local government)
- Enabling environment
- Snapshot of current situation, as basis for inferences towards the future
- Explicit recognition that sustainability depends on factors at different institutional levels
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Four broad group of tools
• Tools to assess sustainability in comprehensive manner, covering all (or most) dimensions
– Mainly in use for assessments, monitoring and evaluation
• Tools that zoom into one specific dimension,
– More oriented towards identifying actions within that dimension
• Tools to comprehensively assess service delivery performance, covering all levels
– Identifying what bottlenecks are at different institutional levels
• Tools to assess performance at a single institutional level
– Identifying structural improvement or reform at that level
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Challenges and gaps
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Being comprehensive
Challenges and gaps
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Challenges and gaps
Keeping it simple
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Challenges and gaps
• Sustainability just depends on many factors, at different institutional levels, and often are interrelated
• But is data on all of these reliably available?
• Do we know the exact interaction between them
• Making sense out of many data to identify bottlenecks and priorities: generation of alerts
Being comprehensi
ve
Keeping it
simple
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The big picture?
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Or zooming in?
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Challenges and gaps
• Tools zooming in at a particular dimension or level, may yield more actionable results
• But may forget links to other factors, levels and dimensions
• Complementarity between tools
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Challenges and gaps
• Utility of tools depends on institutional capacity to use them
• Therefore need to be commensurate with that institutional capacity
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Agenda
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Key questions for discussion
What are the design principles when developing sustainability tools – possible issues
− Levels and dimensions of sustainability
− Scoring and aggregating
− Evidence that they work
− Qualitative and quantitative:
What is needed to make the tools contribute to sustainability?
− Complementarity between tools
− Contribution to sector change
− Government leadership
− Balance between diversity and standardization of tools
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Enjoy the flow