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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 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. Four years 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.

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.


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... 

 GWC Minimum Requirements
  • 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).

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