Dec 18, 2015
MALAWI: FACTS AND FIGURES
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Total Population : 15, 910, 000
Per capita Income : US$ 900/year (8th poorest)
Water Coverage : 83%
Sanitation Coverage: 51%
Hygiene coverage : 37%
Open Defecation : 8%
Project areas for Everyone Forever:
• Peri-urban Blantyre; Pop ≈ 500, 000
• Rural Chikhwawa; Pop ≈ 484, 000
EVERYONE FOREVER: OH NO! NOT ANOTHER NGO SLOGAN!
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Full and lasting coverage
Making ambitious WASH investments
Building local capacities
Strengthening local economies and markets
Testing new and risqué ideas
Sharing learning to influence practice
EVERYONE FOREVER: OH NO! NOT ANOTHER NGO SLOGAN!
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We keep good company
Possess local knowledge
Have social capital/rapport
Last longer than us
Trickle-down of practice
Everyone Forever Ethos is maintained
LOCAL NGOS: ACCEPTED BEST PRACTICE
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Local WASH NGOs
INGO – NGO partnering
INGO is indirect implementer
Builds local capacity
NGO implements directly
Replicate best practice
LOCAL NGOS: THE REALITY
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Have multiple concurrent partners/donors
Low level of commitment to values
Resistant to market development thinking
Culture of Poverty
Administrative nightmare
Unsustainable partner option
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: ACCEPTED BEST PRACTISE
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Local municipality or public utility
Crucial for policy changes or regulation
Extensive networks
Build local capacity
Actual implementation with local NGO
Create linkages and trust with local CSO
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE REALITY
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Susceptible to political logic
High staff turnover
Fraud / Allowance Please!
Laissez Faire / Strategy Disconnect
Resistant to market thinking
PRIVATE SECTOR: ACCEPTED PRACTISE
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Mostly masons, water mechanics & banks
Build their technical and financial capacity
Offer marketing support Bank Guarantees
Mentorship and Monitoring
PRIVATE SECTOR: THE REALITY
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Small scale in nature
Poor selection →→→ poor performance
Dependency on us
Resistance to market thinking
Social monitoring lacking– banks
LESSONS WE’VE LEARNT ABOUT PARTNERS
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Focus on thematic areas e.g. CAMA
Leave business to business people e.g. TEECs
NGOs distort expectation e.g. OIBM
If they don’t exist – create them! E.g. coalition
Better the devil you don’t know
Have a shared and demonstrated philosophy