Strengthen the capacity of government's institutions for WASH sector coordination in humanitarian crisis
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 humanitarian clusters are by essence temporary, and are responsible to build the capacity of the national government to progressively take a leading role on response coordination, with a final objective of transition from cluster to sector once adequate capacity has been reached.
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 plan. The following standard methodology can be used:
1 . Inventory of existing tools and initiatives | Make the inventory of the tools and initiatives existing at national or regional level to assess and strengthen capacity of governement for WIE coordination. Some of the main existing ones are highlighted in the Field Examples section on top of this page |
2 . Plan a "WiE Coordination Bottleneck Analysis" workshop | If after analysis of existing initiatives is considered not suficient, plan the organization of a 5 days WiE coordination bottleneck analysis workshop with governemental actors. It is important that key staff of WASH related Ministries, National disaster response structures, OCHA and UNICEF country office's WASH section are informed and support of the organization of the workshop, and are invitated to participate to it. You can find the workshop standard material in the Key Guidance section on top of this page. |
3 . Map governement capacity | During the weeks prior to the workshop, map governement capacity using standard criteria developped by the GWC (see workshop package). Criteria are in-line with the WASH BAT methodology developped by UNICEF |
4 . Implement the workshop | The 5 days workshop includes:
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| 5 . Establish a roadmap | The last afternoon of the workshop is dedicated to the establishment of a road map to build the capacity of the national government for leading and coordinating the humanitarian WASH response. The roadmap should not be stand alone, but mainstreamed into into existing Emergency Preparedness Action planning and general WASH sector capacity development plan |
6 . Monitor the roadmap implementation | During the month and the years following to the workshop, the WASH coordination platform should follow up the implementation of the actions planned in the road map |
Depending on the context and the capacity of the governement, a transition process /wiki/spaces/CTK/pages/10782242-led coordination can be planned.