Sanitation and Water for All

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Sanitation and Water for All
Type Partnership
Focus Sanitation, hygiene, water supply
Website sanitationandwaterforall.org

The Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) is a global partnership committed to achieving universal access to clean drinking water and adequate sanitation. In 2015, 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, one billion people defecate in the open and 748 million people lack access to an improved source of drinking water.[1]

Over 90 partners, including governments, civil society and development partners, work together as part of SWA to coordinate high-level action, improve accountability and use scarce resources more effectively.[2]

The SWA Partnership organizes meetings called "High Level Meetings" (HLM). After two HLM in 2010 and 2012, the third HLM took place in Washington DC in April 2014, with over sixty delegations from developing countries and donors, including 20 finance ministers from SWA partner countries.[3]

The SWA Secretariat is hosted by the UNICEF at the request of the Steering Committee. The Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) works with UNICEF to provide hosting support to the Secretariat.

History

A number of water and sanitation stakeholders first conceptualised SWA in 2006 to improve access to sanitation and drinking water following the release of two publications:

  • The Human Development Report Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis,[4] highlights the urgency for key donors and development partners to “provide an institutional point for international efforts to mobilize resources, build capacity and—above all—galvanize political action by putting water and sanitation in a more central position on the development agenda.”
  • The UK Department for International Development (DFID) [5] report entitled “Why we need a global action plan on water and sanitation” .

In 2007, DFID reiterated its call for a better WASH sector coordination and the need for a Global Action Plan based “Five Ones”:[6]

  1. one annual global monitoring report;
  2. one high level global Ministerial Meeting on water;
  3. at country level, one national plan for water and sanitation;
  4. one coordinating body;
  5. and activities of the United Nations (UN) agencies in water and sanitation to be coordinated by one lead UN body under the UNDP country plan .

In 2008, DFID, the Dutch Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS), other donors and developing country governments officially agreed to create a Global Framework for Action on Sanitation and Water Supply (GF4A),[7] which was launched at a side-event during the UN MDG High-Level Event.[8]

In April 2010, the partners organized the first High Level Meeting in Washington DC, USA and developing countries and donors tabled commitments to improve sanitation and water.[9] In September 2010, under a new name – Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) – the new partnership was formalized with an agreed Governing Document, an elected Steering Committee and a Secretariat[10]

Membership

SWA's partners are categorized into seven different constituencies. Each constituency is represented on the Steering Committee, which holds decision-making authority for the partnership.[11]

Developing Country Partners (any Low Income Country government or Middle-Income Country government which is off-track for the water and/or sanitation MDG targets; including regional governmental associations)

Afghanistan Gambia (The) Mongolia Sri Lanka
Angola Ghana Mozambique Sudan
Bangladesh Guinea Nepal Tanzania
Benin Guinea-Bissau Niger Timor-Leste
Burkina Faso Kenya Nigeria Togo
Burundi Lao PDR Palestine National Authority Uganda
Cameroon Lesotho Paraguay Viêt Nam
Central African Republic Liberia Rwanda Zambia
Chad Madagascar Senegal Zimbabwe
Côte d’Ivoire Malawi Sierra Leone .
Ethiopia Mali South Africa .
Egypt Mauritania South Sudan .

Donors (governmental donor agencies, or private foundations, providing funding to water and sanitation)

Multilaterals (UN or other multilateral agencies/mechanisms engaged on water and sanitation)

Development Banks (global or regional development banks)

Civil Society (regional and global associations of not-for-profit CSOs engaged on water and sanitation)

  • African Civil Society Network on Water and Sanitation (ANEW)
  • End Water Poverty (EWP)
  • Freshwater Action Network South Asia (FANSA)
  • Millennium Water Alliance (MWA)

Research and Learning (international organizations focused on a research and learning agenda with recognized water and sanitation technical and policy expertise and influence)

Sector Partners (International organization with recognized sector expertise and influence; this may include not-for—profit associations of private sector)

Areas of focus

SWA provides a framework for partners to work globally, regionally and nationally on three priority areas:

  1. Increase political prioritization to accelerate progress towards universal access to sustainable sanitation and water
  2. Promote the development of a strong evidence base that supports good decision-making
  3. Strengthen government-led national planning processes to guide the development and implementation of sustainable sanitation and drinking water services[12]

Working together on these three areas, SWA aims to increase the impact of available resources and strengthen mutual accountability among partners. It is a platform for partners to act on international aid and development effectiveness principles.[13]

High Level Meetings (HLMs)

The High-Level Commitments Dialogue (HLCD) includes the preparatory process that countries and donors carry out to develop commitments which are later tabled at SWA High- Level Meetings. The commitments are tabled to address bottlenecks holding back progress in water and sanitation. In April 2014, SWA held its third High-Level Meeting attended by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the President of the World Bank, Dr. Jim Yong Kim . The meeting was attended by 20 ministers of finance and 35 ministers responsible for water, sanitation or health. Sixteen donors and development banks also attended the meeting.[14] On behalf of the partnership, the SWA Secretariat monitors these commitments and issues a report on progress made.[15]

Governance and leadership

Sanitation and Water for All is composed of a high-level Chair, a Steering Committee led by a Vice-Chair, the partners themselves and a Secretariat.

The Partnership, through its constituencies, elects the Steering Committee who takes overall responsibility for strategic leadership of SWA and elects the SWA Vice-Chair.

The Chair provides leadership to SWA, and engages politicians and high-level decision- makers on behalf of the partnership . Since 2010, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor has served as chair of the SWA Partnership .

The Secretariat supports the functioning of the partnership[11]

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