IFRC-Nestl partnership for WASH
Description
For Cote d'Ivoire and Ghana, Nestl markets and RCRC National Societies agreed on a list of rural, cocoa growing communities. Once identified, the IFRC and the RCRC National Society follow procedures for implementation of WASH projects under the IFRC's Global Water and Sanitation Initiative. This means that projects must:<br />
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Target vulnerable communities where WASH coverage is well below national average and where WASH related morbidity and mortality is above national averages (especially areas where cholera/AWD is endemic). Often where government or other WASH actors have limited capacity or activities.<br />
Recognise the importance on WASH as a vital component of good nutrition and as a means to reduce stunting and other effects of poor WASH and nutrition.<br />
Community based approaches working with and through grass root Red Cross National Societies volunteer and branch networks. Increased focus upon sanitation and hygiene, sustainable community based management while not de-emphasising the need for safe water access. Where practical applying low-cost sustainable and innovative technology choices.<br />
Apply and support Integrated Water Resource Management, working closely with Government and other WASH actors and stakeholders, ensuring environmental sustainability.<br />
Ensure gender equity, having a special focus upon women and children, WASH services at health structures and schools in the community and menstrual hygiene management. Ensuring social inclusion disability, age and other cross cutting elements are fully embedded in all activities in all contexts.<br />
Promote oral rehydration, hand washing, safe water storage, solid waste disposal.<br />
Provdie WASH services at health structures that provide post-partum, maternal and neo-natal services and at schools where hygiene promotion and MHM can also be delivered.<br />
Undertake a robust real time and post implementation monitoring and evaluation framework throughout while maximising sustainability over time. KPIs will be SDG linked and we have already unpacked WASAH SDG6 indicators and will do the same for health related SDGs.<br />
Projects to scale (typically 100,000 beneficiaries per project) and over a typical time scale of 3 to 5 years. Increasingly we consider additional post implementation low key sustainability activities continuing in the longer term and increased interaction and promotion of sanitation marketing and local entrepreneurship.<br />
Capacity building occurs at several levels in the partnership: at individual and community levels, as well as for the Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies implementing the partnership. <br />
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At an individual level, volunteers are extensively trained on hygiene promotion and awareness, which they in turn pass on to community members. Children in schools are also trained, for example on hand washing, which they share with their families. Additionally, some individuals are trained as masons to enable small repairs and local maintenance of water pumps and sanitation facilities. The latter is linked to technology transfer and knowledge sharing. <br />
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At a community level, not-for-profit Water Committees are set up in the communities where water pumps are rehabilitated or built. These committees will manage the day to day operations and payments of water, as well as ensuring that money is saved up for repairs on the facilities (from income on the water). In this way, communities and individuals are empowered to lead healthier and safer lives through the partnership.
In addition to frequent communication between the partners, the partnership has hired a joint intern who works at both the IFRC Secretariat and Nestl head quarters in Geneva and Vevey, respectively. The intern also went to Ghana to support the local partners in the implementation of the partnership. <br />
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Locally in, for example, Ghana, the Ghana Red Cross is implementing the WASH projects in 50 communities which were identified in collaboration with Nestl Ghana. The local partners also collaborate on communications about the partnership, and are exploring the potential for growing the partnership.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 6
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
6.1
By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all
6.1.1
Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
6.2
By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations
6.2.1
Proportion of population using (a) safely managed sanitation services and (b) a hand-washing facility with soap and water
6.3
By 2030, improve water quality by reducing pollution, eliminating dumping and minimizing release of hazardous chemicals and materials, halving the proportion of untreated wastewater and substantially increasing recycling and safe reuse globally
6.3.1
Proportion of domestic and industrial wastewater flows safely treated
6.3.2
Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality
6.4
6.4.1
Change in water-use efficiency over time
6.4.2
Level of water stress: freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources
6.5
By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate
6.5.1
Degree of integrated water resources management
6.5.2
Proportion of transboundary basin area with an operational arrangement for water cooperation
6.6
6.6.1
Change in the extent of water-related ecosystems over time
6.a
6.a.1
Amount of water- and sanitation-related official development assistance that is part of a government-coordinated spending plan
6.b
Support and strengthen the participation of local communities in improving water and sanitation management
6.b.1
Proportion of local administrative units with established and operational policies and procedures for participation of local communities in water and sanitation management
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
SDG 14 targets covered
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Christian Vousvouras, PhD, Public Affairs Water Specialist