Getting towards universal coverage by Stef Smits

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Getting towards universal coverageA roadmap with tools – illustrated by experiences from HondurasStef SmitsIRC Event 30 March 2016

An Agenda for Change

An initiative of IRC, WaterAid, Water For People, Aguaconsult and Osprey Foundation

Aims• Everyone covered with adequate

WASH services in focus districts• Local ‘systems’ in place to ensure

services are ‘forever’• National ‘systems’ in place to

enable other districts to reach everyone, forever

A roadmap, with tools

• From a district perspective• Towards national systems

MunicipalityInstitutions

Service inventory

Costs

Municipal planning

NationalGuidelines for institutional

development

Monitoring system

Financial policy

Costing and asset management tools

Implementation

Methodology for municipal policies

Methodology for municipal planning

Institutions

Presence and performance of authority and providers

Institutions

• Institutional check-lists• Performance assessment• Guidelines to establish

providers and authorities

Service inventoryAssets (infrastructure)Service levelsWater resources

Service inventory• National monitoring

systems• Shit-flow diagrammes• Water resources

mapping

Costs

Combining population, asset and cost data for a long-term perspective (10 years)

16% no access

18% broken facilities

55% substandard service

11% basic service

Combining population, asset and cost data for a long term perspective

Costing everyone foreverCapital Expenditure

US$ XXCapital Expenditure by users (self supply)

- US$ YY

Capital maintenance expenditure (immediate) US$ ZZ

Mix of capital (maintenance) expenditure and support to operational expenditure US$ XZ

Likely to require capital maintenance US$ ZZ

in next 10 yearsMinor % not requiring investment

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Direct support US$ QQ

Total costs of reaching everyone foreverUS$ XYZQ

Understanding costs of service delivery

• Life-cycle cost analysis

• Asset management tools

Municipal planning

Municipal planning• Clarifying fiscal

decentralization• Budget tracking• Matching costs with

finances• Municipal planning• Municipal policies

and by-laws

Financial flows in the WASH sector in Honduras.

Source: Public Expenditure Review: Decentralization of Water and Sanitation Services. World Bank 2014

ImplementationWith accountability and learning

Implementation

• Learning alliances• National monitoring

systems• Budget tracking• Sustainability

checks• Citizen scorecards

Supervising rehabilita-tion works

4%

Monitoring17%

Support to service

providers57%

Planning, coordina-

tion, report-ing4%

Other17%

Break-down of spending per activity group

Reflections• In theory, a clear pathway; in reality road may be windy

with lots of turns. • Essence is:

- Use national systems, or support their application- Use districts as space for ‘experimenting’

• A very rational approach: using data for planning, and hard accountability over its implementation- In reality, hard engagement with political processes and

bottom-up processes

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