Waltaji Terfa, NPO/PHE, WHO Ethiopia kutanew@who.int WSP Progress and Impact Assessment in Ethiopia Waltaji Terfa, NPO/PHE, WHO Ethiopia kutanew@who.int University of North Carolina 30 October 2015

Outline WSP Impact Assessment Water Safety Plan Value of impact assessment information WSP linkage to SDG monitoring Lessons Challenges Way forward Water Safety Plan Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan implementation progress in Ethiopia

Water Safety Plan Water Safety Plan A comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that includes all steps in the water supply from catchment to consumer Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan: A WSP that considers climate change in a way that ensures that safe water is supplied to users in enough quantity and which considers the sustainability (i.e. resilience of the system & infrastructure). Important concepts linked to resilience: Capacity to anticipate, respond to, cope with, recover from and adapt to stress and change Ability of the system to keep on functioning in a way that it maintain its essential function, identity and structure.

WSP in Ethiopia in 2012 WASH sector Joint technical review Water quality status assessment as part of the joint sector technical review(JTR) 12 institutions involved. Nonetheless, continuous, comprehensive & proactive water quality monitoring and surveillance activities have done in none of these institutions... Safety was a low priority Result was presented to WASH multi stakeholders forum in the same year WSP came out as one of the major undertaking of the 5th WASH Multi-stakeholders Forum meeting in the same year

WSP Started in 2013 Partners German Agro Action Jan 2013 TOT for project Woredas with WHO support. Small community Water supply Serving multiple villages over 98km pipe line Drop of Water 3 small community water supplies COWASH: Community managed water supplies WHO technical support Training Planning & resource mobilization

National Workshop March 2014 Sharing experiences on rural water safety plan, from different organizations COWASH, UNICEF, Drop of Water and German Agro action Explore how Ethiopia can scale up water safety planning as an instrument to improve WASH sector performance

WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Policy Framework National framework

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Tool for implementation Implementation Guidelines

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2014 Capacity building Training TOT with WHO support 26 participants 5 from Tanzania Multi sector participants Water, Health, Environment, Agriculture, meteorology & University National Technical Working Group from sectors involved in TOT Urban utilities & Small community managed water supply training package was developed by TOT & used for cascading training

National Validation Workshop 2015 Framework & Implementation guidelines

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2015 Implementation Cascaded CR-WSP Team training, planning, water quality testing & established baselines 387 trained

CR-WSP in Ethiopia 2015 Implementation With the support of WHO/DFID project 9 water supplies( 6 urban & 3 rural) implementing CR-WSP serving 500,000 Population Scaling up to more 4 water supplies before end of 2015

WSP Impact Assessment & its Value To establish baseline & measure progressive improvement of water supplies safety & service reliability through time Changes in knowledge & understanding of safety, quantity & sustainability among supplier, consumers & decision makers Change in operation, maintenance & management practices Help in policies, guidelines & SOP development & utlization

WSP Impact Assessment & Its Value Infrastructure improvement , service expansion & supplier institutional arrangement including min laboratory establishment Utilities & small community water supplies included control measure & improvement cost in their ongoing O&M budget Additional resource mobilization from WASH program & uptake of CR-WSP by partners CR-WSP as indicator performance evaluation for suppliers with set of defined criteria including good governance .

WSP linkage to SDG monitoring To halve the proportion of the population without access at home to safely managed drinking water and sanitation services; and to progressively eliminate inequalities in access. Water Safety Plan Impact Assessment SDGs Water and Sanitation Working Group

% households access to Safe source Quantity Per capita per day (lpcd) WSP Impact on Reliability of Water Supplies Services Indicators Measurement unit Coverage % households access to Safe source Quantity Per capita per day (lpcd) Continuity hours/day ; day/week; weeks/month; Months/year Quality Critical parameters … Total coliform, fecal coliform, E.Coli… cfu/100ml Sanitary hazards/risk Revealed by on-site sanitary inspection low, medium, high , very high Cost/ affordability Tariff and % of consumers paying These indicators are very important elements of water supplies for public health

Challenges Resource for infrastructure & watershed level CR-WSP Technical capacity and tools for designing & implementation of CR-WSP Expert capacity. Example prefer to select water source sites in most cases in marshy areas/ prone to flood to increase precision of water availability. Multi sector involvement Settlement and agricultural activities with in 300m Buffer zone

Way forward Inclusion of CR-WSP to WASH Program planning, implementation & report; regulatory … framework millstone Scaling up to more urban & rural water supplies Continue capacity building of the suppliers, surveillance & regulatory

Way forward Water resource inventory(WRI) ground & surface Water resources vulnerability assessment(VA) at basin & catchment level CR -Water Safety Plan including infrastructure implementation at watershed (ecosystem) level. GIS application(WRI,VA & CR-WSP)

Lessons Start with high level decision makers commitment Capacity building for experts & staffs at water supply Knowledge & understanding are very important for changing business as usual Partnership ……… development partners & Universities Ownership of the water supply staffs (manager to security guard) & community

Addressing Environmental Safe guard including Climate risks Conclusion WSP is Instrumental from catchment to point of use for incremental drinking water service improvement WSPs respond to O& M, quality & System reliability challenge of water supply system None functionality Addressing Environmental Safe guard including Climate risks Addressing HWTS as part of WSP specially for small community water Supply HWT Options compliment Behavior gaps

Thank you! Conclusion Therefore, we need to: Act Now Act Together Act Differently Thank you!

Acknowledgement Triningo W/ G, German Agro Action Arto Suominen, CO-WASH Technical Advisor Hermella Wondimu, Drop of Water Angella Rinehold, WHO Osman Yiha, WHO Technical support to Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy Semunesh Golla, Director of Water Quality and Hydrology, Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy Balew Yibel & Eyob Abebe, Expert of water quality & hydrology, Ministry of Water , Irrigation and Energy CR-WSP Technical Working Group