Urban Group Presentation

Commitment and Leadership Legislate Policies Increase Allocation Sanitation Champions at different levels Sanitation as a separate Department/Ministry of Sanitation Make politician on board

Commitment and Leadership Involve Local Leaders Not to pollute Sanitation in Party manifesto and ownership Financial commitment from Government Transparency Data base and mapping and documentation of existing systems

Partnership, coordination & Integration Clear targets Link education to sanitation R&D Policy Advocacy

Enabling Policies Review Policies Periodically Gross root awareness Pro-citizen awareness Policy consistency Consumers encouraged to pay user charges Separation of service provision and regulation

Enabling Policies Capacity building of all actors Formulation of provincial policies Media Program Sanitation as part of curriculum Involve stakeholders to make implementation effective

Enabling Policies Health- Education linkage Investment in the poor/backward areas must be part of integrated strategy Enforcement mechanism Sanitation Documents may be translated in Local/regional languages Local policies for different areas Policy making on sanitation must be done Provinces as it is there constitutional right

3. Effective and Accountable Institutions Institutional arrangement i.e merging Representation of Citizens on various boards Third party validation,evaluation and regular audit Periodic Stakeholder consultation and partnership Training institutions at local level Focal point for all concerned departments

3. Effective and Accountable Institutions Advocate widely Partnership models in the policy Institutional level approach rather than ad hocism No separate department, rather a coordination facilitating committees Linking various department Institutional Autonomy Capacity and commitment for Policy Implementation must be enhanced

4. EFFECTIVE APPROACHES Mass sharing of successful model and mass level orientation Develop a strong community strategy for all stakeholders Changing behavior especially among the young generation Local community, school, colleges and university, media, political leaders and govt. officials Reward employees/staff concerned on achieving targets Service providers should be effective and accountable to the public Tax all - The UCs should have funds collected through taxation Actors involvement, awareness, low cost/simple technology Regulatory mechanism Component sharing is an effective approach

4. EFFECTIVE APPROACHES Greater integration between water, sanitation and hygiene work Govt. to act as co-coordinator and facilitator Based on ground realities design communication strategy. Approaches- result oriented, based on local communities, successful piloted, include Public- Private-Partnership Focus on educational institutions and imam masjid and women Do more if they pay more

5. SATITATION SECTOR FINANCING Fund flow mechanism should be transparent End users should be paying for the services Penalize on laps of funds Utilizing capacity of the implementing agencies needs to be increased as most of the budgets are lapsed Need enhancement of allocations at federal and provincial level and proper utilization at local level We enhance no need of more financing, PPP and Built Operate and Transfer (BOT) methodology should be used Financially sustainable feasible success stories should be multiplied with special reference to south-south-dialogue Separate and committed funding from provincial govt. for O&M Financial schemes based on incentives Assign financing liability to the asset owner

6. SECTOR COORDINATION CBO, NGO and Gov. Coordination Cell Web Portal Govt + Donor Steering Committee Multi Stakeholder committee Focal Persons at Local Level Socail/GIS Mapping

7 Monitoring and Sustaining change Real time monitoring processes and results Involve all actors as equal partners Make institutions more proactive rather than projects Long term strategy can ensure sustainability R&D

Use Appropriate Technology for monitoring as needed Sustainability is linked with Policy continuity Adopt inclusive mechanism