What is it about?
Once needs assessment phase is completed, all necessary data should have been collected and analysed to inform strategic planning: the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) process can start. The HRP has become the main tool for intersectoral strategic planning in protracted or stabilized context. It is a one-month duration OCHA-driven process done with the support of each sector, usually occurring once a year in protracted emergency. As part of the HRP process, the development of the WASH Operational Response Plan is an essential function of the WASH coordination platform; it requires joint efforts from IMO, WCC and WASH partners to implement a response analysis based on the needs assessment data, define strategic orientation of the WASH response, estimate the population targeted for the WASH response (caseload), prioritize activities and population groups to be covered, and calculate response cost. The WASH operational plan sets targets against which the WASH response will be monitored.
In sudden onset emergencies, HRP is replaced by Flash Appeal, which follows the same logic but in a much quicker way (3 to 5 days), and mostly based on secondary data.
What are the objectives?
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