Sustainable and Innovative Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (SIRWASH)
The Sustainable and Innovative Rural Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (SIRWASH) initiative improves enabling policy, innovation and knowledge environments and fosters the required capacities to provide sustainable quality water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to rural communities – in particular poor households and vulnerable people – in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti and Peru. It builds on Switzerland’s over 20 years of experience in strengthening rural WASH systems in Peru and Colombia.
Paese/Regione | Tema | Periodo | Budget |
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Ande |
Acqua Impiego & sviluppo economico
Approvvigionamento idrico
Igieniche d'aqua Sviluppo delle piccole e medie imprese (PMI) Politica del settore idrico |
01.10.2020
- 31.03.2025 |
CHF 5’578’500
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- Banca interamericana di sviluppo (other)
- Other international or foreign NGO North
- Settore privato straniero Sud/Est
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Settore in base alle categorie del Comitato di Aiuto allo sviluppo (DAC) dell'OCSE APPROVVIGIONAMENTO IDRICO E IGIENIZZAZIONE DELLE ACQUE
APPROVVIGIONAMENTO IDRICO E IGIENIZZAZIONE DELLE ACQUE
APPROVVIGIONAMENTO IDRICO E IGIENIZZAZIONE DELLE ACQUE
INDUSTRIA
Sotto-Settore in base alle categorie del Comitato di Aiuto allo sviluppo (DAC) dell'OCSE Basic drinking water supply
Basic sanitation
Politica dell'acqua e gestione amministrativa
Sviluppo delle piccole e medie imprese (PMI)
Tipo di aiuto Mandato senza fondo fiduciario
Contributo al progetto e al programma
Numero del progetto 7F10142
Contesto | Despite significant progress in improving the provision of WASH services in the past two decades, millions of people – particularly from rural areas – are still without an adequate source of drinking water and suffer the absence of safe facilities for excreta disposal and (hand and menstrual) hygiene. Moreover, in light of COVID-19 and mixed progress of the Agenda 2030, many Latin American countries are struggling to ensure access to WASH to the most vulnerable households, critical to prevent and mitigate the spread of pandemics. Governments are required to commit to ensuring sustainable WASH services, prioritizing those most in need. Based on its experiences in closing the gap of rural WASH in Latin America, SDC is well positioned to contribute to this endeavour. SIRWASH will enhance the framework in which rural WASH services operate by increasing the capacities of sector entities, promoting innovative technological, social and financial solutions, strengthening institutions and further positioning rural WASH in the political agendas at national, regional and global levels. SIRWASH will support the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and other regional and global partners to strengthen a durable enabling environment capable of securing sustainable rural WASH services in Latin America and beyond. |
Obiettivi | To improve enabling policy, innovation and knowledge environments and to foster the necessary capacities to deliver sustainable quality water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to rural communities with a particular focus on vulnerable and disadvantaged people. |
Gruppi target |
Direct beneficiaries: i) Local-national-global WASH entities; ii) National governments and subnational institutions; iii) Provincial and municipal governments and community based-entities; iv) (Young) WASH practitioners, (Young) entrepreneurs, National WASH Platforms, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs); v) Private sector and business associations. End beneficiaries: i) Poor and vulnerable people from rural and dispersed communities in targeted countries, ii) The global public. Other groups: Financiers (investors). |
Effetti a medio termine |
1. Authorities from local to global levels develop, promote and apply improved rural WASH policies: Institutional policy dialogue is mainstreamed, pushing for increased political leadership as well as adapted public policies and legislation on integrated rural WASH at local/national levels. 2. Local to national WASH institutions are strengthened and rural WASH actors improve their capacities, expertise and networks: Institutional set-up and management capacities of public actors are strengthened to provide sustainable rural WASH services, valuing human capital and fostering training, accountability, coordination and knowledge management through existing and new partnerships including the private sector. Locally adapted technical and social capacities of rural WASH experts (particularly women) are systematically strengthened to improve decentralized rural WASH services and management. 3. Implementers of rural WASH services develop, adopt and apply financial, technological and social innovations: Technological innovations are boosted and partnerships with the private sector are enhanced ensuring financial affordability and sustainability of rural WASH services. |
Risultati |
Risultati principali attesi: Outcome 1: Outcome 2: Outcome 3: Risultati fasi precedenti: SIRWASH builds on the experience of SDC’s programs in rural WASH in general and on its successful implementation of the SABA (Comprehensive Basic Sanitation Model) program in South America (Peru, Colombia) in particular. During the past 20 years, SABA has proven to be a successful model for sustainable management of WASH in rural areas, incorporating institutional, financial, technical, environmental and social components into national policies. The lessons learned reveal the importance of ownership of the main political stakeholders, a close and permanent policy dialogue with national and sub-national governments to increase public funding and to promote organizational changes at institutional levels, the strengthening of decentralized capacities, and the comprehensive intervention in the whole WASH project life cycle as well as the articulation with all relevant stakeholders. |
Direzione/Ufficio responsabile |
DSC |
Credito |
Cooperazione allo sviluppo |
Partner del progetto |
Partner contrattuale Istituzione finanziaria internazionale ONG internazionale o straniera Economia privata |
Coordinamento con altri progetti e attori | Asian and African Development Bank (ADB, AfDB), IDB Aquafund, Young Water Fellowship (YWF) Programme, Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN), Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), International Secretariat for Water (ISW), Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), Observatorio Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Agua y Saneamiento (OLAS), SDC Humanitarian Aid (HA) (Colombia & Hub in Peru), SDC South Cooperation (Haiti & Bolivia). |
Budget | Fase in corso Budget Svizzera CHF 5’578’500 Budget svizzero attualmente già speso CHF 4’854’501 |
Fasi del progetto | Fase 1 01.10.2020 - 31.03.2025 (Fase in corso) |