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Water for Life: UK's Proactive Water Aid Initiatives for Sustainable Development

Dive into the impactful work of WaterAid, centered on field experience in 15 countries with 250 local partners benefiting 7.8 million people. Their integrated approach focuses on water, sanitation, and hygiene, with a twin-track strategy of pro-poor projects and advocacy. Despite challenges like financial barriers and governance issues, they are making strides towards achieving universal water access. Learn about their innovative campaigns and efforts to address the global water crisis.

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Water for Life: UK's Proactive Water Aid Initiatives for Sustainable Development

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  1. Water for Life:the UK working as one Ravi Narayanan Director, WaterAid

  2. WaterAid • centred on field experience • 15 countries, 250 local partners, 7.8m beneficiaries • watsan & hygiene integration, local partners & DRA • twin track strategy: pro-poor projects and advocacy • public and private partners within UK water sector • Chairman, Vic Cocker, retired Severn Trent Ch.Exec. • 50% income growth last year • hitting targets early, reviewing 2000-2005 strategy • approach to IWRM a major issue though context is: • domestic 50 litres per day = 18m3 per annum • compare 1000m3 for 1 tonne of wheat • or 1000m3 threshold for scarcity, 1700m3 for stress

  3. The Unserved: Safe Water 30 216 40 70 440 265 Total: 1.16 billion Data: UNDP Human Development Report 2003

  4. The Unserved: Sanitation 15 910 45 110 995 280 Total: 2.36 billion Data: UNDP Human Development Report 2003

  5. Targets – Delivery Gap

  6. Barriers I - Finance • Identifying the gap • Options for poor countries • Debt relief, trade • Cost recovery: pro-poor subsidies where necessary • Harmonising resources • ODA and internal resources • Cost-effectiveness of expenditure • Policy – untying Aid, Budget support, PRSPs • Appropriate technology

  7. Barriers 1 – Finance: policy gap Other SSA and South Asia countries do not have credit ratings – they do not issue bonds and so there is no demand for their ratings. These countries are just about “unbankable” – there is no commercial appetite to lend to them or, without copious amounts of aid, to projects over $10,000 in them. Botswana India South Africa Senegal *From Camdessus Report

  8. Barriers II - Technology • Appropriate • Operations & maintenance • Affordability • Technology ladder • Scalability

  9. Barriers III - Governance • Clarity of Purpose • Avoid compartmentalisation – water/education/health • Demand Creation • Use of media, social marketing (esp. for sanitation) • Ethical application of policy • Concentration on poor communities/regions • Similarly for suppliers: local private sector • Transparency of Information • Monitoring Impact

  10. Conclusions • Long way to go and poorest are already off-track • Challenge is to translate knowledge into action • Priorities need to be set: • Financiers: focus on doubling public funds • Business: sustainable service delivery systems • Governance: get data for ethical service expansions • WaterAid launching Flush Out Poverty campaign • pressure on DFID to prioritise water once more and reassert its international leadership on these issues

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