What is it about?
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 to sector once adequate capacity has been reached. Four year later, this agenda was pushed forward through 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. Localization of humanitarian WASH coordination and response has become a strategic priority for the global WASH cluster and many national WASH clusters.
In countries affected by recurrent crisis, the objective of having a strong national leadership and response in WASH during humanitarian crisis cannot be reached without building the resilience of the whole WASH sector. This calls for improvement of links between humanitarian and development actors and funding mechanisms, for instance by mainstreaming capacity development in humanitarian WASH into emergency preparedness actions and long term WASH-related sectors development objectives.
What are your objectives?
Develop and monitor the implementation of 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
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