West Africa Water Sanitation and Hygiene Program (WA-WASH)

Project Summary

The primary goal of the USAID West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation Hygiene Program (WA-WASH) is to increase sustainable access to safe water and sanitation and improve hygiene in West Africa. This four-year (2011-2015) program will accomplish its objectives by introducing innovative and low-cost water and sanitation technologies and promoting adequate hygienic behaviors at community level; by developing practical models of sustainable WASH service delivery; by facilitating cooperation and creating synergies between WA-WASH and other relevant USAID/West Africa programs and priorities in the region; by increasing the capacity of national and regional institutions to replicate these approaches and models throughout the region; and by facilitating knowledge sharing among the WA-WASH countries and beyond.

Location
Ghana, Africa
Burkina Faso, Africa
Niger, Africa

Project Details

Project plan

The project outcomes required to achieve its goal are captured in the following intermediate results (IRs).
Intermediate Result A: Increased community access to potable water and improved sanitation.
Intermediate Result B: Improved sustainability of WASH services.
Intermediate Result C: Increased income generation and food security outcomes of WASH investments.
Intermediate Result D: Strengthened national and regional enabling environment for integrated WASH.

Area of Focus

Capacity Building

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	39	132	11/16/2015 11:58:39 AM
Burkina Faso	IRC	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	115	226	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	UNESCO-IHE	Number of WASH modules (group modules, etc.) developed by academic institutions	2	1	3/17/2014 12:11:46 PM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of institutional partnerships created as a result of USG assistance	4	5	6/9/2015 7:55:03 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	36	48	11/16/2015 11:57:06 AM
Ghana	UNESCO-IHE	Number of WASH modules (group modules, etc.) developed by academic institutions	2	1	3/17/2014 12:13:54 PM
Ghana	FIU	Number of institutional partnerships created as a result of USG assistance	1	0	10/23/2014 12:11:24 PM
Niger	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	11	12	3/17/2014 12:56:42 PM
Niger	UNESCO-IHE	Number of WASH modules (group modules, etc.) developed by academic institutions	2	1	3/17/2014 12:57:20 PM
Niger	FIU	Number of institutional partnerships created as a result of USG assistance	1	0	3/17/2014 12:57:40 PM
Niger	BPD	Number of successfully implemented action plans developed and revised by partnership practitioners	23	23	10/23/2014 12:20:28 PM

Climate Change Vulnerability & Adaptation

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of people receiving training in global climate change as a result of USG assistance	106	131	11/16/2015 11:52:43 AM
Burkina Faso	CARE	Number of people receiving training in global climate change as a result of USG assistance	180	566	11/16/2015 11:53:04 AM
Burkina Faso	CARE	Number of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance*	150	544	11/16/2015 11:53:26 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance*	665	1640	10/23/2014 12:05:06 PM
Burkina Faso	RAIN	Number of climate vulnerability assessments conducted as a result of USG assistance*	1	1	6/9/2014 4:21:49 AM
Burkina Faso	CARE	Number of climate vulnerability assessments conducted as a result of USG assistance*	8	8	6/9/2014 4:21:59 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of stakeholders using climate information in their decision making as a result of USG assistance*	60	57	10/23/2014 12:06:35 PM
Ghana	CARE	Number of people receiving training in global climate change as a result of USG assistance	180	717	11/16/2015 11:50:12 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of people receiving training in global climate change as a result of USG assistance	63	47	11/16/2015 11:50:42 AM
Ghana	CARE	Number of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance*	405	1075	11/16/2015 11:51:14 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance*	224	585	10/23/2014 12:01:25 PM
Ghana	CARE	Number of climate vulnerability assessments conducted as a result of USG assistance*	8	10	6/9/2014 4:05:24 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of stakeholders using climate information in their decision making as a result of USG assistance*	25	29	6/9/2014 7:27:10 AM
Niger	CARE	Number of people receiving training in global climate change as a result of USG assistance	60	636	10/23/2014 12:07:22 PM
Niger	FIU	Number of people receiving training in global climate change as a result of USG assistance	82	68	10/23/2014 12:07:43 PM
Niger	CARE	Number of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance*	81	642	6/9/2015 7:23:58 AM
Niger	FIU	Number of stakeholders with increased capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change as a result of USG assistance*	140	1171	10/23/2014 12:08:41 PM
Niger	CARE	Number of climate vulnerability assessments conducted as a result of USG assistance*	8	8	10/23/2014 12:09:30 PM
Niger	FIU	Number of stakeholders using climate information in their decision making as a result of USG assistance*	30	36	10/24/2014 6:03:16 AM

Food Security

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance*	60	243	11/16/2015 11:46:36 AM
Burkina Faso	Winrock	Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance*	511	1391	11/16/2015 11:47:15 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of individuals who have received USG supported short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training*	400	1530	11/16/2015 11:48:02 AM
Burkina Faso	Winrock	Number of individuals who have received USG supported short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training*	1231	1896	11/16/2015 11:48:34 AM
Ghana	CARE	Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance*	150	392	6/9/2015 8:08:29 AM
Ghana	Winrock	Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance*	40	263	6/9/2015 8:08:47 AM
Ghana	CARE	Number of individuals who have received USG supported short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training*	327	747	11/16/2015 11:45:06 AM
Ghana	Winrock	Number of individuals who have received USG supported short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training*	100	339	11/16/2015 11:45:37 AM
Niger	Winrock	Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance*	148	162	10/23/2014 11:58:09 AM
Niger	Winrock	Number of individuals who have received USG supported short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training*	879	1098	10/23/2014 11:58:42 AM

Gender

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	39	132	11/16/2015 11:58:39 AM
Burkina Faso	IRC	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	115	226	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	4	5	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	36	48	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	1	0	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Niger	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	23	23	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM

Hygiene

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	39	132	11/16/2015 11:58:39 AM
Burkina Faso	IRC	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	115	226	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	4	5	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	36	48	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	1	0	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Niger	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	23	23	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM

Sanitation

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	39	132	11/16/2015 11:58:39 AM
Burkina Faso	IRC	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	115	226	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	4	5	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	36	48	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	1	0	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Niger	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	23	23	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM

Water

Location	Partner	Indicator	Target	Current	Date
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	39	132	11/16/2015 11:58:39 AM
Burkina Faso	IRC	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	115	226	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Burkina Faso	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	4	5	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	36	48	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	UNESCO-IHE	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	2	1	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Ghana	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	1	0	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM
Niger	FIU	Number of NGO/local/national/regional governments that benefit from capacity building interventions	23	23	11/16/2015 11:59:02 AM

Background

It is widely recognized that insufficient and inadequate access to water and sanitation services has enormous health, economic, and social consequences. Poor water quality continues to pose a major threat to human health. Diarrheal disease alone is responsible for the deaths of 1.8 million people every year (WHO, 2004). It was estimated that 88% of that burden is attributable to unsafe water supply and inadequate sanitation and hygiene and is mostly concentrated on children in developing countries (WHO, 2004). Women and girls spend several hours a day to collect water from distant sources and this translates into significant forgone income for women and impossibility to attend school for girls.
The international community has recognized the critical importance of access to water and sanitation to foster development and has agreed to a number of water and sanitation-related goals, including halving, by 2015, the proportion of people unable to reach or afford safe drinking water and the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation (MDGs, 2000). While, globally, the world is on track to meet the target on drinking water, specific regions, one of which being Sub-Saharan Africa, lag significantly behind, especially in rural areas. Progress on the sanitation goal is even further behind. In response to this, viable credit models for small/medium scale water, sanitation, or hygiene activities, ranging from microfinance to medium-scale community infrastructure or entrepreneurial lending need to be designed and implemented. Furthermore, WA-WASH countries have been proven to be especially vulnerable to the impacts of changes in climate, which include droughts, floods and highly variable rainfall patterns, and the negative consequences for the WASH sector are becoming clearly visible.

Project plan

Goals

The WA-WASH Program has been designed to respond directly to Assistance Objectives established by USAID/West Africa and is expected to deliver key outputs and reach beneficiaries in four countries. In particular, the program aims at increasing, directly (hardware activities) and indirectly (software activities), the number of people with access to improved water supply services for household and productive use, as well as the people with access to improved sanitation services. The program will also increase number of people adopting household point-of-use treatment methods/products. Other achievements and outcomes will include: the development, implementation and replication of new, low-cost, demand-driven, and market-based approaches to WASH service delivery for rural and peri-urban populations. WA-WASH will also lead to improvements in operational practices of local government and the private sector in the four countries (including technical, financial, managerial and monitoring aspects); strengthened national and regional enabling environment and capacity to achieve WASH MDGs in West Africa and increased government compliance to regional and international commitments; increased capacity and synergy among WA-WASH regional partnership members for improving the local governance of WASH services.

Sustainability

Ensuring long-term sustainability of program interventions is a cornerstone of all activities in the WA-WASH program. To grant long-term reliability and sustainability of the services provided, efforts addressed to rapidly increase access to safe water and sanitation (hardware component) are complemented by activities aimed at researching and promoting practical and replicable models for WASH service delivery in rural and peri-urban areas (software component). Strong focus is placed on one of the most critical aspects of sustainability: the costs of meeting the water supply and sanitation needs. To this end, innovative and viable financing mechanisms and credit models for small/medium scale water, sanitation, or hygiene activities are researched, developed and tested. On the same note, the program calls for citizens’ action to favor reform of key national policies and to ensure that high priority to water supply, sanitation and hygiene improvement is given at decision-making level.
National, regional, and municipal authorities are involved in planning, allowing them ownership of program activities from the beginning. Communities in the chosen target areas are empowered to assist in the design of management interventions that will adequately meet their diverse needs. Communities are also expected to assist in the financing of chosen interventions through monetary or in-kind contributions, which increased their sense of ownership. Particular attention is paid to developing productive uses of water or income generating activities linked to WATSAN service delivery, thus allowing community members to financially benefit from increased access to WASH. A multi-stakeholder Learning Alliance is also developed to translate lessons learned from this program into new ideas for programs and activities. Creating an enabling environment and strengthening of WASH institutions across the region is a core element of WA-WASH as a means to promote long-term improvements in water service delivery. This objective will be reached through a strategic set of activities focused on institutional assessment and strengthening, capacity building, and knowledge management in West Africa as a whole. Major efforts are undertaken to research, refine and diffuse service delivery models appropriate and effective in the West African context. In summary, a serious commitment to monitoring and evaluation of sustainability factors are being made.

West Africa Water Sanitation and Hygiene Program (WA-WASH)

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