Monitor the adherence of the response to the 5 WASH Minimum Commitments for the Safety and Dignity of Affected Populations
The Global WASH cluster partners have agreed that 5 WASH Minimum Commitments for the Safety and Dignity of Affected Populations should be respected in all national humanitarian WASH programmes to ensure that the distinct assistance and protection needs of the affected population are met. These commitments, centered on people, aim at ensuring that key issues are taken into consideration by all partners, such as gender, gender based violence, child protection, disability, and age. The respect of these minimum commitments all along the humanitarian programme cycle allows partners to design and implement a participative response.
The five minimum commitments are:
- Consult separately girls, boys, women, and men, including those with disabilities, to ensure that WASH programs are designed so as to provide equal access and mitigate incidences of violence;
- Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including those with disabilities have access to appropriate and safe WASH services
- Ensure that girls, boys, women, and men, including those with disabilities, have access to feedback & complaint mechanisms so that corrective actions can address their specific protection and assistance needs
- Monitor and evaluate safe and equal access and use of WASH services in WASH projects;
- Give priority to girls (particularly adolescents) and women’s participation in the consultation process