Introduction to

iWaSH Governance
23 April 2019
 Why do we put importance on Water?

The presence or absence of water speaks a lot in

terms of the socio-economic undertakings of a
community, in the same manner that it has been
used in the immortalization of indigenous culture
and traditions of our indigenous communities
(Tadyaw: Pulse Special Edition. DILG. [nd]).

As economies develop and population increases,

demand for water by industry, commercial,
agriculture, and domestic sectors necessarily expand
(Rola, Francisco and Liguton, 2004).
But water is more than an economic good
or a basic human need.

Water is a human right: it is freedom,

entitlement and legally enforceable claim; it
carries obligations and duties from which
government and water service providers
cannot escape. The right to water belongs
to everyone, everywhere, at all times (UNDP and
DILG, 2012 pp 10).
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene:
The Need to Integrate
 So, what is iWaSH?

Water

iWaSH Hygiene

Sanitation
 What is Governance?
“Governance involves the
institutionalization of the system,
through which citizens, institutions,
organizations, and groups in the
society articulate their interests, their
rights and mediate their differences in
pursuit of the collective good”
(ADB, as adopted by UNDP (1997), cited in Lazo, (2011))
iWaSH Governance therefore is ….
 Improved / saved lives and advanced development through
improvements in WASH programs

Water Hygiene
• Improved Water • Awareness raising
Quality & Quantity and advocacy
• Water Source campaigns
• Behavioral changes in
Development &
personal & HH
Hurdles
Protection hygiene practices • Available financial resources
Sanitation (esp. among poor LGUs)
• Excreta Disposal • Low capacities among
• Solid Waste
Management
planners and implementers
• Septage • Availability of Water Sources
Management • Acceptance by the
• Water Safety
community
• Uncoordinated interventions
 The iWaSH Framework has 2 dimensions:

Implementing Dimension
w/c Addresses:
open defecation
universal access to basic drinking
Governance Dimension water, sanitation and hygiene for
Rights based
households, schools and health
Gender equality
facilities
Resilient iWaSH access at home to safely manage
Promotes partnerships drinking water and sanitation
services; and
progressively eliminate
inequalities in access.
From MDGs …
“Ensure availability and sustainable management
of water and sanitation for all”
Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs)

Targets for water,

sanitation, and hygiene
 FOCUS ON GOAL 6 –
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and
sanitation for all

The COMMITMENT:

“Achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable

drinking water for all” and to achieve access to adequate and
equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation,
paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and
those in vulnerable situations” by 2030
as well as other related targets under the proposed Goal 6
of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The VISION:

“A world where access to safe and affordable drinking

water is a basic and universal human right…where
there is adequate and accessible sanitation.”
The REALITY:

“Access to safe, affordable, accessible, available and

acceptable water and sanitation as a human right
recognized by the General Assembly and the
Human Rights Council,
is still a dream for millions of people “
The TARGETS:

• eliminate open defecation;

• achieve universal access to basic drinking water,
sanitation and hygiene for households, schools
and health facilities;
• halve the proportion of the population without
access at home to safely manage drinking water
and sanitation services; and
• progressively eliminate inequalities in access.
Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable
management of water and sanitation for all

•6.1
Drinking Means of Implementation
Water
•6.6 • 6.2
Sanitation 6.A
Eco- and International
systems Hygiene cooperation
and capacity
Goal 6 development
• 6.5 •6.3
Water Water
resource quality 6.B
mgmt • 6.4 Local
Water- participation
use
Efficiency
 No one should be left behind!
• Focuses on who are unserved and under-served
and why they are disadvantaged or marginalized.

• income, sex, age, race,

Monitoring & Commitment on
• ethnicity, migratory status,
accountability data collection
• disability and geographic location,
• or other characteristics

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SDG 6 and its contribution to other SDGs

It has been recognized that attaining the targets

of SDG 6 will also impact on the other goals,
specifically Goals 1,2,3,4,5, 10, 13, 14, 15 as
well as on the goal on governance, Goal 16.
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms
everywhere

Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food

security and improved nutrition and
promote sustainable agriculture
Available and
Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and sustainably
promote well-being for all at all ages managed
WASH
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable underpins the
quality education and promote lifelong achievement
learning opportunities for all
of other SDGs
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and
empower all women and girls
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among
countries
Goal 13. Climate Change Action
Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the
oceans, seas and marine resources for
sustainable development Available and
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainably
sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems,
sustainably manage forests, combat managed
desertification, and halt and reverse land WASH
degradation and halt biodiversity loss underpins the
Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive achievement
societies for sustainable development, provide
access to justice for all and build effective, of other SDGs
accountable and inclusive institutions at all
levels