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What is it about?

National governments are responsible to ensure a well-coordinated, strategic, adequate, coherent and effective response to humanitarian crisis occurring in their country. In some contexts, when government’s capacity to coordinate the response following humanitarian principles is overwhelmed or limited, Humanitarian Clusters may be activated. But as highlighted by the IASC in 2012, humanitarian clusters are by essence temporary, and are responsible The WASH coordination platform must participate in the strengthening of the local humanitarian WASH systems to support disaster resilience and a more localized humanitarian response

The 2012 Transformative Agenda highlighted the temporary essence of the humanitarian clusters, and the responsibility for clusters to build the capacity of the national government to progressively take a leading role on response coordination, with a final objective of cluster deactivation and transition from cluster to sector once adequate capacity has been reached. Four years year later, this agenda was pushed forward through by the launch of the Grand Bargain initiative: the largest donors and humanitarian agencies made several commitments to better localize the humanitarian coordination and to strengthen the role of local government and civil society actors in implementing and monitoring humanitarian WASH response. when the context allows it, the strenghtening of government's capacity to coordinate the response is one of the responsibilities of the WASH coordination platform and should be embedded into in its work planThe Gran Bargain also called for an increased used of market-based programming in the response, especially regarding the use of Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA), which should be considered for the WASH response when relevant and appropriate.  The Gran Bargain also calls for more collaboration with development partners to improve the humanitarian development nexus, ensuring on one side that WASH development programs improve disaster resilience and preparedness, and on the other side WASH humanitarian response supports the continuity of the development agenda.

What are your objectives?

• Develop a capacity building strategy to reinforce the capacity of the National Governments and National partners operating at national and sub-national levels to lead, coordinate and implement the humanitarian response in the WASH and disaster-response related sectors.
• Strengthening the duty bearer role of Governments’ Institutions (including at sub-national levels) for WASH sector coordination in all humanitarian crisis contexts (refugee crisis, natural disasters, conflicts, socioeconomic crisis, migration)
• Strengthening the role of local actors to plan and implement the response, participate in the monitoring of the quality of the Humanitarian WASH response, and to improve WASH related aspect of local community resilience to disasters

At least, you should do... 

• Hazard identification, risk Assessment and risk monitoring is undertaken as part of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle or on a needs basis.
• Contingency plans exist for high risk or recurring disasters (for instance: flooding, cholera outbreak, mass displacements).

• National government takes a leading role in the coordination and the monitoring of the humanitarian WASH response
• Local public, private and civil society actors have a better capacity to implement and monitor the humanitarian WASH response
• The emergency preparedness and response processes use and support adequately local WASH market systems
• Partnerships are established between development and humanitarian actors to improve resilience, preparedness and emergency response

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