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Investing in improved Sanitation: key to achieving the MDGs? January 2014 Outline • Impact of Sanitation on development indicators • Current status of sanitation in Tanzania • Programs and approaches to address the problem Sanitation matters because it’s more than toilets MDG4: Reduction of child mortality 50% of childhood malnutrition is associated with repeated diarrhea and nematode infections MDG4: Reduction of child mortality 1,800 children under 5 die every day from fecal related diarrheal disease MDG1: Poverty Up to 7% of annual GDP loss in lagging countries results from poor sanitation, driven by health costs and lost productivity with poor households bearing the burden MGD 7c: Access to improved basic sanitation and water MDG4: Reduction of child mortality Diarrhea is the 3rd leading cause of death in children under 5 2 MDG2: Education 443 million school days are lost every year due to WASH related diseases. Girls are disproportionately affected by lack of privacy and cleanliness during their period MDG3: Gender equity Improving sanitation impacts on reduction of violence against women during open defecation Feces Sanitation Fingers Flies Fields/Flo ors 3 Food Handwashing/hygiene Handwashing/hygiene Fluids Clean water Sanitation It’s not the water that makes children sick and malnourished, it’s the feces - sanitation is the primary barrier to stopping the consumption of human feces height relative to healthy norms UNICEF: “The first two years are forever” Indian children, 2005 DHS small kids? big deal! Height is not the only thing developing in the first few years life The same early life health that helps bodies grow tall also helps brains grow smart Height predicts (on average): Cognitive achievement Adult occupation class, employment, wages Adult health, mortality, and happiness Promotion of people in large organizations (!) change over time in Bangladesh merely wealth? wealth within India Short and Long-term outcomes from stunting In Eastern and Southern Africa, 24 million children under five or 39% suffer from stunted growth (UNICEF, Nutrition Profile). More likely to die from diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles and other infectious diseases (Black, 2013) Are more likely to have poorer cognitive and educational outcomes in later childhood and adolescence (Walker et al., 2011, GranthamMcGregor et al., 2007). Making another generation less productive than they would otherwise be (Black, 2013) Have higher levels of depression and anxiety and lower self-esteem (Walter et al., 2007), increased risk of suicidal ideation (Cheung et al., 2009), and higher levels of hyperactivity in late adolescence and attention deficit in adults (Galler, 2012). Because of service delivery failure in both urban and rural areas, 2.5 billion people lack access to sanitation– resulting in one of the most off-track MDGs 3,000,000 2,500,000 2,000,000 1.1 billion Defecating in the open - 90% occurring in rural areas 1,500,000 1,000,000 500,000 754 million using Unimproved Sanitation – 75% occurring in rural areas 761 million using Shared sanitation – 61% occurring in urban areas 0 4 THE SANITATION STATUS Government led 1970’s Mtu ni Afya Campaign, helped reduce OD and achieve high coverage of traditional pit latrines – from 5-20% in 1973 to over 80% in 1978 Sanitation practices are getting worse in rural Tanzania 5.1 million people 24 million people Sanitation access is not drastically different across expenditure quintiles Source: Analysis by K. Mdadila using income/expenditure data from National Panel Survey Stunting is worse off in children that are poor and who live rural areas of Tanzania Source: UNICEF Nutrition Profile Childhood stunting varies by level of local area open defecation and unimproved sanitation Tanzania (2010) – Height-for-age z-score by age and local area open defecation and unimproved sanitation NATIONAL SANITATION CAMPAIGN Campaign conducted across the country Knowledge Sharing Forum What works at scale? Distilling critical success factors for scaling-up rural sanitation WSP Theory of change Improve health and socio economic conditions for poor rural households and communities (Vision 2025) Increase access to, and use of improved sanitation (Draft National S&H Policy, MKUKUTA II) Increase demand at community level to stop open defecation and increase the supply and demand of household sanitation solutions Strengthen the enabling environment needed to sustain improved sanitation at scale WSP Theory of Action Positive Impact on health, economy and education WSP Support: Programmatic approaches for supply and demand Performance reviews With related support to enable: Policy Leadership Donor coordination Financing Capacity development Local Private Sector offers sanitation goods and services Households install and use improved sanitation facilities Communities (sub villages) ignite and commit to 100% coverage and usage (ODF) Local Governments (Districts, Wards, Villages) Implement and Monitor National Sanitation Program, Regulates Private Sector Regional Authorities Monitor and Supervise Local National Sanitation Program Activities National Government Supervises and Monitors National Sanitation Program Implements Activities with National Scope (Core concepts, Media), Improves Enabling Environment Thank you, open for discussion!!