STATUS REPORT OF SACOSAN - IV FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES SANITATION PROGRAMME

STATUS REPORT OF SACOSAN - IV FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES SANITATION PROGRAMME 2012 National Water Supply & Drainage Board Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage

I strongly believe that Economic growth alone is not beneficial to the people. It must produce wide spread benefits to the people while improving basic needs of the society. Access to water, sanitation, shelter, electricity, health and education - is key, to open the doors for a society to enjoy quality basic needs His Excellency the President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka Published by SACOSAN CO-ORDIANTION UNIT Rural Water and Sanitation Section National Water Supply & Drainage Board Galle Road, Ratmalana Tel: +94 11 2605349 Fax: +94 11 2622753

PREFACE After the successful completion of the fourth South Asian Conference on Sanitation held in Sri Lanka 2012, the Sri Lankan government has given its enormous contribution to take up all the responsibilities to initiate the outcome of the SACOSAN IV Colombo Declaration. Apart from that, the government has allocated a special budget line in the annual Parliamentary budget to implement the SACOSAN IV Colombo Declaration Follow up Activities continuously. The Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage is the leading institute which directed this programme under the guidance of Hon. Dinesh Gunawardena, the Minister to the Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage. All these implementation activities are being supervised and monitored in the WATSAN meeting, which is supposed to be the flat form for water and sanitation in Sri Lanka. The National Water Supply & Drainage Board is playing a key role to implement the agreed activities mentioned in the SACOSAN IV Colombo Declaration with the assistance of Rural Water and Sanitation Section through the respective Regional Support Centers of NWSDB in Sri Lanka This report is compiled providing special attention to the 1st, 2nd and 4th objectives of the SACOSAN IV Colombo Declaration. In addition to that, the present progress of the other commitments of the SACOSAN IV Colombo Declaration too is included in this report. However, the Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage, the National Water Supply & Drainage Board and other sector partners are rendering their services to fulfill the other targets of the SACOSAN IV Follow UP Activities in a fruitful manner.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT Our sincere gratitude is granted to the following contributors who dedicated their tremendous cooperation for the successful completion of this sanitation programme. Ÿ Hon. Dinesh Gunawardene, Minister to the Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage. Ÿ Hon. Nirupama Rajapaksa, Deputy Minister to the Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage. Ÿ Mr. A. Abeygunasekara, Secretary, Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage/ The Chairman of the WATSAN. Ÿ Mrs. Thranganie Wickramasinghe, Director (Development) and the staff of the Development Section, Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage. Ÿ Eng. Karunasena Hettiarachchi, Chairman, National Water Supply & Drainage Board. Ÿ Eng. B. W. R. Balasuriya, General Manager, National Water Supply & Drainage Board. Ÿ Eng. K. L. L. Premanath, Former General Manager, National Water Supply & Drainage Board. Ÿ Eng. D. U. Sumanasekara - DGM (NW), Eng. K. J. V. A. Perera - DGM (Eastern), Eng. Duleep Goonewardene - DGM (RWS), Eng. T. W. S. Perera - DGM (Southern), Eng. I. V. W. Ediriweera - AGM (Corporate Planning) and A. H. Gunapala - AGM (Community Development) of the NWSDB and District Rural Water and Sanitation Unit s staff in the relevant districts. Ÿ Chairman and the staff of the Pradeshiya Sabhas in the relevant regions, the staff of Zonal Education Office, schools and the students in the respective regions, relevant MOHs and the PHIs in the relevant districts and all School Development Societies and the beneficiaries of the PS areas.

CONTENTS 1. Background 1 2. Introduction 5 3. Scope of the Project 6 4. The Objectives 6 5. Geographical Area Served 6 6. Activity Plan and Fund Disbursement 8 7. The Implementation Mechanism 9 7.1 Beneficiary Identification of The Community 9 7.2 Beneficiary Identification of the School 9 7.3 Implementation Methodology of Community 10 Sanitation Programme 7.4 Implementation Methodology of School Sanitation 11 Programme 8. Social Mobilization 12 9. Hygiene Awareness Programme 13 10. Monitoring And Evaluation 14 11. Voice Of Beneficiaries 15 12. Lessons Learnt 17 13. Recommendations And Conclusion 18 13.1 Recommendations 18 13.2 Conclusion 18 Annexure 1: Present Progress of the SACOSAN V Colombo Declaration 20

1. BACKGROUND The South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) is a government led biennial convention held on a rotational basis in each SAARC country providing a platform for interaction on sanitation, enabling learning from the past experiences and setting actions for the future. The major objective of this conference is to accelerate the progress in sanitation and hygiene promotion in South Asia and to enhance quality of people's life. The SACOSAN process is instrumental to generate political wills towards better sanitation in the region. The South Asian Conference on Sanitation (SACOSAN) is held in order to create awareness on the importance of sanitation among South Asian countries, similar to AFRICASAN organized by South Africa and EASAN organized by fourteen East Asian countries. South Asian countries namely; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the participating countries. SACOSAN was held firstly in Bangladesh in 2003, secondly in Pakistan in 2006, thirdly in India in 2008 and fourthly in Sri Lanka in 2011. The NWSDB was directly responsible for the organizing of the fourth conference held in this country. The fourth South Asian Conference on Sanitation was held in th th Colombo from 4-7 April 2011, under the theme Sanitation Enhances Quality of Life. Around 320 delegates representing the SAARC region and international agencies comprising representatives from Government, UN agencies, development banks, sector INGOS, NGOs, donor agencies and the media representatives from the region, civil society organizations and school children. In parallel to that th Ministerial Summit was held on 6 of April 2011 which was attended by six Ministers and parliamentarians and heads of delegates from eight countries. The major objectives of this international conference were; 1

i. Acceleration of the progress of sanitation and hygiene in South Asia. ii. Enhancing the quality of life of the people. iii. Review the progress of the SACOSAN process. iv. Sharing experience within the South Asia region. v. Learning from the best practices that can be replicated in own country. vi. Influencing policy making process and political will of the South Asian countries. The principle outcome of the conference was the announcement of Colombo Declaration, which was signed by the Ministers from the region and given below. Further to this renewal of our commitment we unanimously agree and commit: i. In the light of the recent UN resolution recognizing the right to sanitation, to work progressively to realize this in programmes and projects and eventually in legislation. ii. To develop time-bound plans and to allocate and mobilize resources for delivering on all previous SACOSAN commitments. 2

iii. To design and deliver context-specific equitable and inclusive sanitation and hygiene programmes including better identification of the poorest and most marginalized groups in rural and urban areas, including transparent targeting of financing to programmes for those who need them most, and taking into account the challenge of protecting the environment and responding to emergencies and climate change. iv. To raise the profile of WASH in schools with the objective of ensuring that every new and existing school at every educational level has functioning, child-friendly toilets, separate for girls and boys, together with facilities for menstrual hygiene management. v. To establish one national body with responsibility for coordinating sanitation and hygiene, involving relevant stakeholders including, but not limited to, those responsible for finance, health, public health, environment, water, education, gender and local government at national, sub-national and local levels. vi. To establish specific public sector budget allocations for sanitation and hygiene programs. vii. To progressively increase allocations to sanitation and hygiene over time. viii. To recognize the importance of people's own contribution to sanitation and to ensure that policies and programmes empower communities to invest in and control their own sanitation solutions while protecting the poor. ix. To develop harmonized monitoring mechanisms with roles and responsibilities clearly defined, using agreed common indicators which measure and report on processes and outcomes at every level including households and communities, and which allow for disaggregated reporting of outcomes for marginalized and vulnerable groups. 3

x. To include in monitoring mechanisms specific indicators for high priority measures such as WASH in schools, hand washing and menstrual hygiene. xi. To adopt participation, inclusion and social accountability mechanisms from planning through to implementation in all sanitation and hygiene programmes at the community level, particularly for the most marginalized areas and vulnerable groups. xii. To build and strengthen capacity for sanitation and hygiene implementation, including investing in higher education facilities, development of curricula research and development, and knowledge exchange and partnership development. xiii. Continue to ensure the effectiveness of the SACOSAN process by committing to report specifically against these and all other SACOSAN commitments when we meet again in Nepal in two years' time, inviting participation from ministries of finance, health, education and other relevant ministries in all future meetings. xiv. To support the monitoring and implementation of the Delhi Roadmap prepared at SACOSAN III through a countryled process of self reporting and the holding of an annual meeting of the Inter-country Working Group formed at SACOSAN I which would review progress. SACOSAN IV - The Colombo Declaration has recognized the potential of sanitation to empower communities and to be a powerful entry point for development. To meet up with the above objective it was extensively discussed the need of having special programmes in regional level with in the South Asia. SACOSAN IV Follow up Activities Sanitation Programme was initiated to meet up with the first, third and fourth commitments of the Colombo Declaration. 4

2. INTRODUCTION Sanitation facilities are very helpful to reduce the mal hygienic practices of people. Basically good hygienic practices prevent the contamination of human fecal from water and soil and avoid the transmission of fecal - oral diseases. Epidemiological evidence suggests that sanitation has a huge impact in preventing diseases with the improvement of water supply. Apart from that, it helps to make major changes in people's behavior further to minimize the household cost. Sanitation is likely to be particularly effective in controlling worm infections. Adults often think of sanitation in terms of their perceptions. But the safe disposal of children's faeces has got a critical importance to promote sanitation within the family. Children are the main victims of Diarrhea and other faecal-oral disease, and also the most likely source of Infection. Construction of child friendly toilets and the implementation of effective school sanitation programmes have a greater effect towards promoting the demand for sanitation facilities. Hence, SACOSAN IV Follow-up Activities Sanitation Programme was especially designed to address some of the objectives of the SACOSAN Colombo Declaration. The Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage in collaboration with the National Water Supply & Drainage Board implemented this programme in the selected areas of the country. It was considered the several requests for the sanitation facilities sent from the relevant districts based on their needs of sanitation. The Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage identified those sanitation needs through a need analysis and provided money to the respective districts to implement the sanitation programme. 5

3. SCOPE OF THE PROJECT The main scope of this project is to improve the sanitation facilities and achieving total sanitation coverage in the selected PS areas and to promote good hygienic practices among people. Apart from that, providing sanitation facilities to a selected school of each Pradeshiya Sabha (PS) area in respective districts is the other objective of this programme. District PS Area No. of School Toilets 4. THE OBJECTIVES a. To cover the total sanitation (school and community) of the selected Pradeshiya Sabha (PS) areas. b. To aware the community in relation with the good hygiene practices, health and sanitation. c. To uplift the living standards of community for meeting up with their basic needs. 5. GEOGRAPHICAL AREA SERVED No. of Community Toilets Puttalam Arachchikattuwa 01 75 Hambantota Angunakolapelessa - 22 Weeraketiya 01 28 Trincomalee Gomarankadawala 01 75 Kuchchaveli 01 50 Batticaloa Vakarai 01 50 Total 05 300 SACOSAN IV Sanitation programme was especially designed to cover the Sanitation and hygiene aspects of the districts depicted in the map of Sri Lanka in 2012. 6

Map of Sri Lanka Sanitation coverage was poor in Vakarai PS area due to the effect of the internalwar and tsunami. Lack of latrine facilities caused many diseases to the people. I am sure that implementation of this Sanitation project by assisting of the NWSDB a lot to reduce the diseases by increasing the practice of the latrine. Mr. J. Jasotharan PHI of Vakarai 7

6. ACTIVITY PLAN AND FUND DISBURSEMENT One of the main objectives of the SACOSAN - IV is to achieve total sanitation by providing toilets. With reference to this theme, it was proposed to improve the sanitation facilities of the neediest 300 households and five schools from selected PS area in Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Hambantota and Puttalam districts where the sanitation facilities are not up to the standards to achieve the required sanitation needs. In view of achieving the above goal, GOSL has allocated Rs. 9.0 million to the Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage. It was proposed to implement the programme, based on the following initial activity plan and the sub activities mentioned below. Theme Activity Tentative Budget (Rs. million) 1. Demonstration Project a. Implementation of pilot 4.8 sanitation project b. School WASH Project 0.8 2. Advocacy a. Local level seminar/ workshop 0.4 3. Publicity 4. Management b. Prepare a report incorporating local level experience and their recommendations Prepare a final report incorporating Sri Lanka's experience, lessons learnt and recommendation to the Government, sector partners as well as to the SACOSAN V Office secretarial work and logistics Total 7.0 0.3 0.3 0.4 8

7. THE IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM 7.1 Beneficiary Identification of the Community In order to implement this programme, the beneficiary identification of the community was carried out based on the neediest households particularly those who did not use latrines at all and those who were using temporary latrines. Apart from that, their level of income, the environment, living conditions, toilet needs and other relevant aspects were taken in to consideration, in order for selection of the beneficiaries. In addition to that, available poverty indicators and other related baseline data were also considered for the beneficiary identification. The respective Rural Water Supply (RWS) units of the NWSDB in selected districts were responsible to select the beneficiaries in collaboration with the Medical Officer of Health (MoH), Public Health Inspectors (PHI), relevant officers attached to local government institutes such as Pradeshiya Sabhas and the relevant officers of Divisional Secretariats. 7.2 Beneficiary Identification of the School The beneficiary identification of the schools too was carried out in a proper way to cater for the burning issues of the field of school sanitation and hygiene. This beneficiary identification was done by the respective RWS Sections of the NWSDB with the help of the zonal education office, MOH office, PHIs with the authorization of Pradeshiya Sabhas. The available data in relation to the sanitation and the sanitation requests from the schools were mainly taken in to account for beneficiary identification. During the selection of schools highly considered were the schools which do not have toilets at all. A need analysis too was carried out to identify the real beneficiary schools. One school from each Pradeshiya Sabha was identified to construct the latrines in selected schools. 9

7.3 Implementation Methodology of Community Sanitation Programme Step 1 District RWS Unit was the key implementing agency of this sanitation programme. Identification of beneficiaries for this programme was based on the available data collected on sanitation facilities of the field surveys carried out by relevant district RWS units with the support of selected Pradeshiya Sabhas. The respective public Health Inspector of those PS areas was involved in selecting the beneficiaries, locations for the toilets, recommending and certifying the construction activities before releasing the funds. Step 2 Based on the outcome of the participatory survey, the needs analysis and the request made by the communities, the targeted beneficiary families were selected. The major attention was given to the households particularly those who use temporary latrines. Further, mainly considered were the people who were capable enough to construct the latrines within the sanitation grant of Rs. 18,000.00 provided under SACOSAN Programme. Step 3 After the selection of beneficiaries in the community, the NWSDB was able to release the required funds to each regions based on the sanitation proposals forwarded by the relevant RWS units. Step 4 The sanitation grant of Rs. 18,000.00 was distributed among the beneficiaries by three installments with the close supervision and monitoring of the construction activities. 10

Step 5 Parallel to this implementation process, no. of hygiene awareness programmes were conducted at PS levels to aware the community on best hygiene and health practices. 7.4 Implementation Methodology of School Sanitation Programme Step 1 The respective RWS staff of each districts in collaboration with the relevant Pradeshiya Sabha and the zonal education office initiated this school sanitation programme based on the requests for sanitation facilities and the available statistical data on sanitation. The MOH and the relevant PHIs too were involved with the process of school identification in order to their criteria of selection. Step 2 With reference to the beneficiary selection, the prior attention was given to the schools which do not have proper latrines and the schools which already made their requests for having toilets. Step 3 It was allocated Rs. 100,000.00 for each PS area to improve the sanitation facilities in selected five schools. However, for the identification of schools, it was needed to have the approval from the respective Zonal Directors of each PS area. However, the five schools which had got less sanitation facilities were selected based on the needs analysis conducted in the respective areas. Step 4 After selection of the beneficiary schools the NWSDB was initiated to release the required funds to the respective School Development Committees (SDS) based on the sanitation proposals forwarded by the relevant district RWS units. 11

Step 5 The sanitation grants released to construct the school latrines were spent with the monitoring and supervision process of respective SDSs and RWS units. The PHIs of the area too made the field visits to observe the construction activities time to time. Step 6 Parallel to the construction activities of the school toilets several hygiene awareness programmes were carried out school level to aware the students on best hygiene and sanitation practices. 8. SOCIAL MOBILIZATION The selected beneficiaries were linked to implement the toilet construction activities through a comprehensive social mobilization process. It was very prominent to see the community was actively engaged with the implementation process. Social mobilization process was very much helpful to mobilize the community and the students to promote the better hygiene and sanitation facilities. Social mobilization process of the community was conducted through the community-based organizations and the community leaders in the area. 12

9. HYGIENE AWARENESS PROGRAMME The staff of Rural Water & Sanitation Section of the NWSDB was the key implementing agency of this sanitation programme in collaboration with the Pradeshiya Sabha and the MOH's office. Prior to implementing this sanitation programme, the identified beneficiaries were mobilized through several awareness programmes carried out in the area. Sociologists and the Community Development Officers attached to the District RWS Units were able to mobilize the community in relation with this sanitation programme. They visited the community and schools very often and organized informal as well as formal community gatherings to aware the beneficiaries. Parallel to this, hygiene awareness programmes were conducted at community level as well as school level to educate the community in good hygiene behavioral practice. The MOH and respective PHI's of the areas were the resource persons of this hygiene education and awareness creating programmes. The importance of good hygiene behavioral practices were emphasized here in the meetings and workshops carried out for community and schools. 13

10. MONITORING AND EVALUATION Monitoring and Evaluation of the programme will be done through identified mechanisms since the beginning of the programme, during the implementation process and after the implementation at the end in three ways as follows. a. Pre Evaluation - Pre evaluation done before implementation of the programme. b. Continuous Evaluation - Continuous evaluation was carried out while the construction activities and the awareness programmes going on. c. Post Evaluation - Post evaluation was conducted after the completion of the construction activities by the respective RWS units in relevant districts. Monitoring and Evaluation was mainly done by each RWS unit of the NWSDB operating at district level. 14

11. VOICE OF BENEFICIARIES Possession of improved sanitary toilet enhances our self esteem and social dignity Sanitation programmes could be well achieved through creating ownership feelings among us 15

Implementers should have better understanding of our social and economic status before the commencement of sanitation programme We are capable enough to contribute manually but difficult to finance towards our development Equitable allocation of benefits to our needy people ensuring the transparency causes to minimize challenges against the implementation of rural sanitation programmes 16

12. LESSONS LEARNT The SACOSAN IV sanitation programme 2012 was successfully implemented by the district RWS unit with the support of the respective Pradeshiya Sabhas. Even though the beneficiaries were willing to construct their toilets, the bad weather condition was one of the obstacles for the construction activities. Following lessons were learnt during the project implementation process. a. Successful community participation in all stages of project planning, design, implementation, management and operation, with consideration of gender issues. b. Political commitment during the programme was very effective and appreciated. c. Intersectorial coordination, collaboration and cooperation was much benefitted for the process of implementation. d. There was enough room for human resource development in all its forms and at all levels. e. Community empowerment was very prominent during the programme. f. Better hygiene awareness programmes promoted the good sanitation facilities in the area. g. Improved information management system. h. Well developed environment-friendly sanitation programme. 17

13. RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION 13.1 Recommendations It is recommended to utilize the manpower efficiently in the area to construct toilets for households. The manpower was very prominent aspect which was highly appreciated in this programme. Although, most of community were very poor, they tried their best to utilize their manpower for the success of the programme. In the school programme, toilets were constructed by School Development Society in a satisfactory way, which helps to teach the best sanitation practices among the teachers and the students. 13.2 Conclusion The following remedial measures can be considered by the policy makers, and other relevant authorities for the implementation of the future programmes: a. The estimated amount is to be paid to the beneficiaries; if not, the amount for supplying materials will be paid to them. b. Beneficiary identification should be done properly. c. The programme will be carried out with the community participation without interruptions for their usual day-to-day activities. d. The similar programmes should be implemented in the areas where the social issues are highly visible. e. A linking horizontal network with all the stakeholders and relevant authorities in the policy level. f. Intersectorial networking is to be linked with policy level decision making. 18

School Toilets constructed under the SACOSAN funds Community Toilets constructed under the SACOSAN funds 19

Annexure 1: Present Progress of the SACOSAN V Colombo Declaration 1. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: In light of the recent UN resolution recognising the right to sanitation, to work progressively to realise this in programmes and projects and eventually in legislation. To be monitored by: National Coordination Forum Present position: Draft National policy on sanitation has been submitted to the cabinet of Ministers for approval after obtaining views of Health& Local Government sectors. In the directive of the cabinet translation to local language being translate. 2. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To develop time-bound plans and to allocate and mobilise resources for delivering on all previous SACOSAN commitments. To be monitored by: My of WS&D annual budget allocation Present position: Progressively Increased the national budget allocations for sanitation to meet universal coverage by 2020. In addition a pilot programme to promote commitment to Colombo Declaration has been included annually. 3. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To design and deliver context-specific equitable and inclusive sanitation and hygiene programmes including better identification of the poorest and most marginalised groups in rural and urban areas, including transparent targeting of financing to programmes for those who need them most, and taking into account the challenge of protecting the environment and responding to emergencies and climate change. To be monitored by: Collaboration of Water and Health sectors established to raise the status of ongoing programmes to meet 20

specific goals. Present position: Donor assistance and regular programmes include accelerated development in estates and resettled areas to fill the gap among marginalized communities. WASH vulnerabilities included in the district DRR plans prepared jointly by water and Disaster Management Ministries. 4. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To raise the profile of WASH in schools with the objective of ensuring that every new and existing school at every educational level has functioning, child-friendly toilets, separate for girls and boys, with facilities for menstrual hygiene management. To be monitored by: MOH / MOE UNICEF, WSSCC + NWSDB Present position: Ministry of Education Services with technical backstopping by NWSDB has launched a well structured school health promotion programme to achieve the 2015 target set for school WASH in Education Sector. UNICEF advocacy programme has developed guidelines for inclusion of disability and menstrual hygiene in sanitation facilities. 5. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To establish one national body with responsibility for coordinating sanitation and hygiene, involving all stakeholders including, but not limited to, those responsible for finance, health, public health, environment, water, education, gender and local government at national, sub-national and local levels. To be monitored by: National and Provincial WATSAN meetings are conducted with participation of all stakeholders. Present position: Strengthened already established national coordination chaired by the Ministry of WS&D by representing all government and sector partners. National Water Sanitation Coordination Meeting is held once a month in the My of WS&D. 21

6. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To establish specific public sector budget allocations for sanitation and hygiene programs. To be monitored by: GOSL / Treasury + My of WS&D Present position: In addition to increased development budget an annual allocation was made for follow up of Commitment of Colombo Declaration. This is in a programme implemented by the NWSDB. 7. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To progressively increase allocations to sanitation and hygiene over time. To be monitored by: 10 year development plan of the Dept Planning My of Finance Present position: The NWSDB has included in their corporate plan funding requirement for achieving universal coverage of sanitation by 2020. 8. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To recognise the importance of people's own contribution to sanitation and to ensure that policies and programmes empower communities to invest in and control their own sanitation solutions while protecting the poorest. To be monitored by: Promote through community participation and establishing revolving fund to meet CLTS in rural communities Present position: The sanitation revolving fund to assist the communities in rural areas and the engagement of CSOs for promotion of hygiene, CBOs to manage sanitation facilities, schools development society for construction of toilets for schools are in place. 22

9. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To develop harmonised monitoring mechanisms with roles and responsibilities clearly defined, using agreed common indicators which measure and report on processes and outcomes at every level including households and communities, and which allow for disaggregated reporting of outcomes for marginalised and vulnerable groups. To be monitored by: This aspect has been included in the ICWG TOR to develop a set of common indicators applicable uniformly to the region. This would enable formalizing a country level reporting system and evaluate the impact of SACOSAN process Present position: Has been formulated by ICWG in Nepal November 2012 and member countries have agreed on three main indicators for reduction of open defecation, school sanitation and universal coverage. 10. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To include in monitoring mechanisms specific indicators for high priority measures such as WASH in schools, hand washing and menstrual hygiene. To be monitored by: MOH / MOE UNICEF, WSSCC + NWSDB Present position: With the Global Hand Washing day annual programmes are implemented and monitor through specific indicators with UNICEF assistance. 11. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To adopt participation, inclusion and social accountability mechanisms from planning through to implementation in all sanitation and hygiene programmes at the community level, particularly for the most marginalised areas and vulnerable groups. To be monitored by: RWS - NWSDB 23

Present position: These policies have been incorporated in progammes and projects implemented in N&E where majority have been resettled. Participatory planning to ensure mobilizing commitment of the community for sanitation programmes is in place. Proper reporting process of the success and lessons learnt need to be established. 12. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To build and strengthen capacity for sanitation and hygiene implementation, including investing in higher education facilities, development of curricula, research and development, and knowledge exchange and partnership development. To be monitored by: RWS - NWSDB Present position: This has to be taken up at the NSC and engage with relevant parties in the higher education sector and implementing partners to incorporate the proposed action under the resolution. A proposal to establish a regional higher institution similar to AIT/IHE has been include in the SAARC framework for sanitation 13. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: Continue to ensure the effectiveness of the SACOSAN process by committing to report specifically against these and all other SACOSAN commitments when we meet again in Nepal in two years' time, inviting participation from ministries of finance, health, education and other relevant ministries in all future meetings. To be monitored by: ICWG commitment with specific TOR for inviting attention of Government in the SAARC region through country focal points Present position: For SACON V regional CFP and international 24

agencies are agencies are engaged in dialogue on formulation and participation of the SACOSAN V conference to include these aspects. Adoption of a TOR for ICWG and establish collaborative partnerships lead by Country Focal Points to follow up on SACOSAN Commitments. 14. Activity Related to Colombo Declaration: To support the monitoring and implementation of the Delhi Roadmap prepared at SACOSAN III through a country-led process of self reporting and the holding of an annual meeting of the Inter-country Working Group formed at SACOSAN I which would review progress. To be monitored by: ICWG and Coordination among country FPs and country paper format Present position: SACOSAN process has agreed reporting the achievement under previous SACOSANs in the respective country paper. ABBREVIATIONS GOSL : Government of Sri Lanka MOH : Medical Officer of Health MWSD : Ministry of Water Supply & Drainage NWSDB : National Water Supply & Drainage Board PHI : Public Health Inspector PS : Pradeshiya Sabha RWS : Rural Water & Sanitation SDS : School Development Society WATSAN : Water and Sanitation 25

Sanitation enhances the quality of life Directed by: Development Division, Ministry of Water Supply and Drainage Guidance by: Rural Water & Sanitation Section National Water Supply & Drainage Board Edited by: Mrs. Saumya Niroshanie Jayasooriya Sociologist (RWS), NWSDB Corporated by: Mr. Nadun Udesh Wickramanayake Engineer (Hambantota), NWSDB Ms. Rupawathana Analingam Sociologist (Trincomalee), NWSDB Mr. Ishaq Pahurdeen Sociologist (Ampara), NWSDB Artwork Design by: Mr. Aravinda Nath System Operator (RWS), NWSDB

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