SustSan workshop: WECF experience in EECCA by Bistra Mihaylova

Examples of successful implementation

of Water and Sanitation projects in

EECCA region

Bistra Mihaylova,WECF

Ljubljana, 4-5 April 2014

Outline

• Who is WECF• Ecological sanitation in Rural schools in EECCA • Implemented projects in EECCA• WHO – Tools for the implementation of WSP/The WSSP

Compendium• Policy and other activities

International network: 150 Member organisations in 50 countries

3 Offices : The Netherlands, Germany and France

Our mission is: working for a Healthy environment for all

Our overall goal is: Achieving an Equitable and Sustainable

Future

WECF: a Non-Governmental non-profit international organisation

Our policy work at national, European, UN and international

level brings women’s perspectives to policy makers.

WECF works on 5 key issues

• Safe Chemicals for all

• Safe Energy for all

• Safe Food for all

• Safe Water and Sanitation for all

• Gender and Human Rights

WECF: a Non-Governmental non-profit international organisation

As 2.6 billion people around the world still lack basic

sanitation and 900 million lack access to clean drinking water,

the MDG 7 target to halve the number by 2015 is unlikely to

be met. Worldwide, lack of safe sanitation and water cause

1.4 million preventable deaths every year, mostly among

children under 5.

Even in the European Union, more than 20 million citizens still

lack safe sanitation.

Water and Sanitation

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From 2002 to 013 1000 individual UDDT 52 UDDT in Schools

School toilets in rural areas

• Far away

• Smelly, flies

• No toilet paper

• No hand-washing nearby

• No privacy, no waste-bins

• Groundwater pollution

How to improve the situation?

Why should we mix what

Nature did separate?

More than 50 rural school toilet-buildings in 10 countries since 2003

• 16.000 pupils and teachers using UDDT

• Total direct cost per user: 37 euro (average)

First outdoor UDD school Toilet for 200 pupils in Romania: 10 years in use

Trainings

Construction

Urine storage

Indoor school toilet for 350 pupils and teachers in Armenia

Waterless urinals at different

heights Urine storage tanks in the

basement

Built by AWHHE

Quelque Chose architects

and TUHH

Wash basins and the toilet caretaker

School and kindergarten UDD toilet in Kyrgyzstan

Realised by Unison, Alga, WECF

Realised by KAWS, WECF

School UDD toilet in Tajikistan

Realised by ASDPNau, WECF

All school toilet buildings use Dry Urine

Diversion Systems

Because in target villages:

• No central water supply to flush

• No central sewage system

Benefits:

• More hygienic

• No smell - can be indoor (climate!)

• Re-use of nutrients

• Drinking water source protection

Girls very satisfied

satisfied

neither satisfied nordissatisfieddissatisfied

very dissatisfied

Boys

Girls very satisfied

satisfied

neither satisfied nordissatisfieddissatisfied

very dissatisfied

Boys

In Central Asia

In Eastern Europe and the Caucasus

Impact Assessment StudyReference Schools:

„Are you satisfied with the school toilet?“

In Central Asia

In Eastern Europe and the Caucasus

Ecosan Schools:„Are you satisfied with the school toilet?“

Girls very satisfied

satisfied

neithersatisfied nordissatisfied

Boys

Girls very satisfied

satisfied

neithersatisfied nordissatisfied

Boys

Results

• No significant difference between boys and girls

• Intervention with ecosan led to an average decrease in

absenteeism of 42% - needs more data!

• Good acceptance of school toilets can be translated into

sanitation conditions providing comfort, cleanliness and

privacy.

• Girls benefit more from the intervention as they suffer more

than boys from the inadequate sanitation

Individual UDD toilets in the EECCA region

Project in Kyrgyzstan

Improving sanitation standards in the household,

providing organic fertiliser and protecting groundwater

resources

Producing solar dried fruits which can be

eaten and sold around the year

Gender Trainings in the Villages

Involving women and menRaising awareness about gender, roles ofmen/women and stereo types

Constructed Wetland in BulgariaIn an Home for Children with mental retardation in Vidrare

Pravets Municipality

Planning for Vidrare -the wetland in planned for 100 p.e., 67 people personal

on shifts, 266m2.

Constructed wetland in Vidrare,BulgariaVertical constructed wetland

Constructed Wetland in Bulgaria

Placing the rubber isolation Discussion with the constr. company

Open lecture for stakeholders

Constructed Wetland in Bulgaria

Pre-treatment settling tank Placing the drainage pipes

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Constructed wetland in Bulgaria

Inauguration of the facility

Water Safety Plans – WSP

Initiated in 2004 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Water Association (IWA)

WSP can be developed from small and large scale drinking and sanitation water systems

The principles of safety plans can be transferred to other

systems such as rainwater, wastewater, surface waters or

sanitation systems

Water Safety Plans

WHO tools for WSP for water operators

• Water Safety Plan manual (2008)

Step by step risk management for drinking water supplies – 11 modules http://www.wsportal.org/ibis/water-safety-portal/eng/home

• Excel based “WSP Quality Assuarance“ Tool + user manual (2009)http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/wsp_qa_tool/en/index.html

• Water Safety Planning for Small Community Water Supplies (2012)

Step by step risk management for Small Community Water Supplieshttp://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/2012/water_supplies/en/index.html

• Water Safety plan: a field guide to improving drinking water safety

in small communities, WHO (2014)http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/243787/Water-safety-plan-Eng.pdf

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• The Compendium consists of 3 parts (A, B and C) with modules with background information and working materials for developing WSSP for small scale water systems – including sanitation (WSSP Compendium)

• Part A, consists of 8 modules, explaining the approach of developing water and sanitation safety plans (WSSP) for small-scale water supplies, and provides basic and practical guidance for developing a WSSP.

• Part B, consists of 8 modules, providing technical and regulatory information on for examplepossible drinking water sources.

• Part C, consists of 6 modules, and is an additional part, prepared especially for youth and schools.

• Target groups: Schools, youth groups, water operators and national/local authorities

• Authors: WECF and partners

• Publication received financial support of German

• Environmental Foundation DBU.

WSSP practical tool for improving public health situation -small scale water supply and sanitation systemsProviding structural and background information

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Schools and Community mobilisation for Safe waterSince 2008 WSP projects in cooperation with schools - 35 schools in 8 countries in EECCA))

• Testing water quality (nitrate,

turbidity, pH)

• Risk assessment of the environment

and water sources

• Cooperation with

authorities/stakeholders

• Communication and dissemination

• Awareness raising

• Planning and taking actions

Policy and Other Activities• Promoting Water and Sanitation Safety plans

- WSP Compendium included in the WHO WSPortal

current DBU project in Romania and Macedonia

- Adaptation WSSP compendium to target group authorities small communities

• Supporting European Citizens Initiative – water and sanitation is a Human Right

• Supporting UNICEF initiative – Raising clean hands

• Civil society representation under the Protocol on Water and Health– Working group “Water and Health”

– Co leading 3-Year Programme on “Small scale water supply and sanitation”

– Working group on equitable access

Policy and Other Activities• EWA program in KYR: lobbying for improving WASH in the country with a gender

focus

• Temporary advisor for WHO– Elimination of soil transmitted helminths in the EURO region

– Monitoring WASH in schools

• German WASH network and Coalition Eau: lobbying for WASH as sustainable fundament for sustainable development

• Co-organiser of the Terra Preta Sanitation conference in August 2013 in Hamburg

• Lobbying for sustainable sanitation through SuSanA

Thank you