Monthly WASH Sector Coordination Meeting
Date: 15th Oct 2014 Venue: DWSU-Khartoum
MINUTE OF THE MEETING
Present: WES, UNICEF, DRC, IAS, SCS, Labena, TAKE, ICRC, Goal, UN-HAPITAT, ENVI, SIBRO, FAR, Bladi, ADRA, CAFOD, FPDO, PBA, Tearfund, Almassar, TGH, OXFAM
America, OCHA, Acted, Private Sector, ARC, HAD, MCVS, WHO, Plan sudan, SWGU, IOM, UNHCR, CRS, NEF, IOM, CIS, ASSIST.
Agenda:
1. Introduction (3 minutes)
2. Water quality test results & health Bulletin analyses by WHO (15 minutes)
3. Brief on Sanitation technical working group (15 minutes)
4. Brief on Safe drinking water technical working group (15 minutes)
5. Sector update (2015 HNO & SRP, SWG, 4Ws, CHF) (10minutes)
6. AOB (5 minutes)
Agenda Item
Discussion/Decisions
2- Water
quality test
results &
health
Bulletin
analyses by
WHO
3- Brief on
Sanitation
technical
working
group
WHO presented analyses summary of water quality test results, tested 3,432 water
samples from 5 Darfur state, Blue Nile White Nile, Kassala and Red Sea states during
2014. There were 1,307 samples (38%) taken from sources and 2,125 (62%) from
households, The results revealed that 974 samples (75%) from the source and 1,667 (78%)
samples from the house-holds are safe and 333 samples (25%) from the source and 458
samples (22%) from house hold are contaminated. Most of the contaminated sources were
found in South, East Darfur and Kassala states and mainly reflecting the degrading WASH
situation in the IDPs camps and informal settlements;
Analyses details will be shared in the drop box account.
Partners feedback and discussion highlights:
 Further efforts needed to link water quality results with morbidity reports & WASH
related diseases as well as relation of HH contamination with sources
contamination;
 Partners requested sharing of sampling SOPs and protocols & requested more
involvement on this process;
 Useful to share Hepatitis E cases Vs acute Jaundice syndrome (AJS);
 Special water quality technical working group should take care of streamline water
quality practices;
Save the children –Sweden as chair person for Sanitation technical working group
presented summary for group discussion & proposed sector guidelines for different context
of new IDPs, Settled IDPs (more than 5 years), Returnees, Host communities, flood
affected, Refugees & Nomads.
Full details can be found in attached matrix
Action
To share
analyses
details
Share working
group output
Responsible
WHO
Sector lead
Status/
Deadline
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Agenda Item
Discussion/Decisions
Action
Responsible
Status/
Deadline
141015 Sanitation
TWG - Matrix.doc
4- Brief on
Safe
drinking
water
technical
working
group
UNICEF as chair person for safe drinking water technical working group presented
summary for group discussion & proposed sector guidelines for different context of new
IDPs, Settled IDPs (more than 5 years), Returnees, Host communities, flood affected,
Refugees & Nomads.
Full details can be found in attached matrix
5- Sector
updates
Sector coordination team presented a sectorial update as below point:
Sector lead
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141015 Safe
Drinking water TWG.doc
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6- AOBV
Share working
group output
Summary of HNO for 2015 SRP: information provided for 172 localities, 69
localities fall under critical, 57 under high, 39 Medium, 6 low needs, 1 in the minor
needs category;
SRP: Sector strategic working group will proposed targeted figures for 2015
strategic response plan(SRP), as well as dicusiion of activities based costing (ABC)
after receive OCHA guidance;
CHF update: USD $ 926,850 allocated to WASH sector for 2nd round of standard
allocation, WASH PRG members are discussing how to allocate this amount;
WWWWs reporting: 21 partners reported (16 INGOs, 3 NNGOs & 2 UN)with some
Information challenges as:
o Filling the right information (mixing information, lump sum figures… etc)
o Double counting of Beneficiaries
o Activities not quantified
o Financial information is missing (13 reported in FTS)
Sector lead reminded CHF recipient for the deadline for progress reporting 27th oct
Prepared by: Mohaned M Osman Date: 15th Oct 2014 Sector IM Officer
Reporting in
FTS
All partners
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