Ms. Maheen Zahara's Presentation on Water and Sanitation Program

1. Water and Sanitation
Program - Pakistan
Syeda Maheen Zehra
February 18 2013 NCRD

2. Pakistan at a glance
Populatio 173 million
n  Complex and contested governance -18th
Poverty
line
36% < $
1.25
constitutional amendment
Access to 92%  Emergence of new institutional structures
Water
Urban 95%  Catastrophes – Floods damage of US$ 9 billion
Rural 91%  Security crisis – FATA
Access to
Sanitatio
78%
 Government spends < 0.2% of GDP on WSS
n
Urban 98%
Rural 67%
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3. Water
Urban sprawl is reducing
% household connections
despite investments
% household connections are
steadily increasing but are
deplorably low
• Pakistan is on its way to meet MDGs
• Quantity is not the problem – QUALITY
is!
• <25% receive safe water and 200,000
children die each year due to water
related diseases
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4. 90
80
70
Sanitation
60
50
40 Over All
30 Latrine
20
10 Coverage
0
Baluchis Pakista
PSLM 2006-
Sindh NWFP Punjab
tan n 07
Flush 25 55 52 64 58
Non-Flush 52 30 17 5 15
No Toilets 23 15 31 31 27
Acces to Toilets 73 85 69 69 73
Total economic
$ 5.8 billion
6000 cost of poor
sanitation for
4000 the year 2006
was estimated
2000 $ 262 million as 395.34
$ 374 million billion PKR
0 $ 88 million
(6.449 billion
USD) which is
Health costs
Water costs equivalent to
Other 4.53% of GDP
welfare Tourism in Pakistan
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5. WSP Overview
 WSP is an international partnership administered by the
World Bank with 30 years of experience
 WSP provides technical assistance, policy advice, and
capacity building in over 24 countries to improve access to
water and sanitation services for the poor.
 Operates globally with regional offices in Africa, East Asia
and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and South
Asia.
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6. The 6 Global Business Areas
1. Scaling up rural sanitation and hygiene
2. Creating Sustainable Services through DPSP
3. Supporting poor-inclusive WSS sector reform
4. Targeting the urban poor and improving
services in small towns
5. Mitigating and adapting WSS delivery to climate
change impacts
6. Delivering WSS services in fragile states2
WSP may not only be seen as a water and
sanitation organization but we are very much
into governance and accountability 6

7. WSP in Pakistan
 WSP is a sector-level policy advisory unit:
• As a think-tank, we provide evidence based advice on sector
reforms
• As a partnership platform, we seek to create links between
organizations
• Demand responsive & strategic engagement
 We bring a holistic view of WSS sector: “Fix the
institutions that fix the pipes”
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8. WSP and Rural Water and
Sanitation
 Undertaking initiatives that
are primarily focused on
women e.g. community led
total sanitation (CLTS)
 Providing training to
government agencies and
service providers
 Providing training to and
facilitating peer learning
amongst community groups
 Piloting innovative
approaches for social
mobilization with a focus on
women’s special needs e.g.
barefoot consultants
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9. Story of Lakshmi
Community
Activist in Sumaro
Trained for
triggering Open
Defecation Free
Behavior
Earning 5000
rupees a month as
a barefoot
consultant for
TRDP
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10. End note….
WSP holds CLTS conclave where community actors who have
contributed to make their villages open defecation free were
rewarded – not surprisingly women claimed a high share of
rewards
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11. 750,000 people in
over 670 villages in
Pakistan are no
longer exposed to
the indiscriminate
disposal of human
excreta.