Water and Supply Sanitation
by: Chris McGahey and Rick McGowan
The most current
thinking on small scale water supply and sanitation focuses on two areas:
health impact and sustainable implementation at scale. Water supply
and sanitation interventions have for too long been viewed as predominantly
technology interventions with nominal attention given to health improvement.
In addition, interventions are still done as pilot efforts, without
comprehensive attention to ensuring replicability through effective
technology choice, policy development, and institutional strengthening.
This session will introduce participants to a comprehensive approach
to designing and evaluating small scale water supply and sanitation
services with the explicit outcome of health. The session will also
provide participants with the opportunity to discuss the keys to success
at scale with veterans of field implementation of large-scale water
supply and sanitation programs.
A panel of specialists
will be on hand to present the comprehensive Hygiene Improvement Framework
for health impact and the key lessons learned from field implementation
of large scale water supply and sanitation programs. The panel brings
experience from field programs funded by USAID, the Asian Development
Bank, and the World Bank as well as from global coordinating bodies
in the sector. Participants will leave the session with increased knowledge
of the three critical components of Hygiene Improvement: access to hardware,
hygiene promotion, and enabling environments, and of the role each component
plays in health impact and sustainability at scale.
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