Download SAWFA - Sanitation and Water for All

Uganda - Vision
Long term vision (Vision 2040)
• -Construction and extension of piped water supply
and sanitation systems to all parts of the country;
focus on preventive over curative health service
delivery approaches; keeping girls in school and
improving their competitive rates
Focus for 2014-2016
• - increase sector financing, leverage resources from
non-traditional sources and fund the sanitation
budget line.
• - improve sector coordination, human resource
development and capacity building
• - Enactment and enforcement of sector legislations.
Water:
64% have access to
improved water, on
track to meet MDG
Sanitation:
National coverage
is 71% JMP
progress is 35%,
while 10% practice
Open Defecation.
Inequalities:
Inequities do exist
between formal
and informal
settlements; urban
& rural
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Ugand Challenges
Key bottlenecks
• - Inadequate funding especially for sanitation
• - limited capacities for effective programme
delivery especially at Local government levels
• - Un-affordable sanitation technologies for
emergencies and difficult soil conditions
• - Water Resources Vulnerability due to water
shocks, climate change and population growth
• - inadequate political will especially at lower
councils to support enforcement of legislations
• - Lack of transport for the extension staff
Tools used:
Joint Sector Reviews
2013 GLAAS
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Uganda Progress on
2012 commitments
Key achievement areas
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- Ministry of Health collecting reports on S&H using Health Inspectors’ annual
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surveys and used in the sector performance reports
- Monitoring Sector performance annually, through the 11 Golden Indicators
Areas of slow achievement
 - Implementation of the national plan and accelerate progress to meet
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national sanitation goals and other MDGs by 2015
- Institutionalization and scale up appropriate sanitation and hygiene
technologies/initiatives (Community Led total sanitation – CLTS).
Carry-over to 2014
-Financing of the sanitation budget line and Improving sector coordination
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Uganda 2014 Commitments
Finance
Ministry of Finance to
ensure allocation of
0.5% of GDP to the
sanitation budget line by
the FY 2015/16
Equality
Policy and plans
M.O.H to ensure
sanitation ordinances
and bye-laws are
enacted and enforced
in 25% of the districts
by 2016
Human Capacity
Ministry of Health to
Elevate Environmental
Health Division
V to a
Department by end of
2016
Political support
Local governments to
ensure 100%
sanitation coverage by
all leaders and
support enforcement
sanitation laws
starting 2014/15
Human Capacity
PSC and DSC to recruit
and fill sector vacant
posts to 100% by end of
2016, with training and
promotional avenues and
transport provided
Coordination
Permanent secretaries to
ensure sector Working
Group meetings are held
and attended by all senior
officers from the different
sectors starting with 2014
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FOR GOD AND MY
COUNTRY
Thank you for Listening
&
May God bless us all
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