WASH Cluster Meeting Points/Actions
MEETING NOTES
Name of Meeting
Meeting Location
WASH Cluster Meeting – Post-Cyclone Pam Response
National Disaster Management Office
WASH Lead
Agency
Meeting
Attended by
Directorate of Geology, Minerals and Water Resources
Minutes
Prepared by
Agenda
Richard Sennoga
Next Meeting
Date
Monday April 27 2015
Meeting Date
Meeting Time
and Duration
WASH Focal
Point Agency
April 22, 2015
9.00am – 10.30am
UNICEF
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DGMWR - Obed Tabi, Nagali Puech, Neil Kalotukor
UNICEF - William Fellows, Brecht Mommen, Hilson Toaliu, Andy Dow
ProMedical - Jasper Lawson, Jen Bowtell
Kaleva Yatch Service - Jess Bell, Sam Bell
Red Cross - Arturo Garcia (FRC), Ana Zarkovic (IFRC)
Oxfam - Enam Hoque
ADRA - Michelle Winrow, Mark le Roux (ADRA Vanuatu)
The Salvation Army - Brad Watson
8. WASH Cluster IMO - Richard Sennoga.
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Minutes
Submitted on
April 22 2015
Welcome and Introductions (Obed Tabi/Brecht Mommen)
Update on WASH Input to HARP
Health Update (Hilson Taoliu)
3W Update (Richard Sennoga)
Education Update (HIlson Taoliu)
Early Recovery (Ana Zarkovic).
UPDATE ON PREVIOUS ACTIONS
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Update
1
Welcome,
Introductions
2
Humanitarian
Action Plan
(HAP) Process
3
Health
Action
- Mr. Obed Tabi chaired the meeting.
- Brecht introduced the new WASH Cluster
Coordinator, William Fellows.
- Informed the meeting of OCHA’s of April
23 deadline for uploading the HAP project
sheets.
- Agencies were urged to finalize and
submit their figures to allow sufficient
time for consolidating them into one
document.
- Health Cluster to hold an infrastructure
restoration working group meeting to
develop a plan for the restoration of key
health facilities.
- Cases of diarrhoea reported on the
islands of Tanna and in Votlo, southern
Epi. Need to establish if the cases are a
result of post Pam damage to WASH
facilities
Responsible
Person/Agency
Status / Deadline
Obed / DGMWR
Brecht / UNICEF
Brecht
Mommen /
UNICEF
Hilson / UNICEF
- Brecht to follow up
with CARE, World Vision
and Red Cross
- Brecht to upload the
project sheets by 4pm
for presentation to
Government and HC
- Hilson to represent the
WASH cluster at the
meeting (April 23, WHO,
1300Hrs)
- Hilson to obtain
2013/2014 diarrhoea
figures from MoH for
comparison purposes.
- Richard to share
WASH Cluster Meeting Points/Actions
- Finalized design of visual IEC messages
on sanitation and hygiene promotion in
Bislama into a pocket-size booklet.
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- Met with agencies, discussed consistency
in reporting using the 3W matrix.
- Made a 3W presentation as of April 21
- To focus on spatial analysis/mapping of
Who’s doing
WASH interventions to eliminate and
What Where
prevent double-counting.
- WASH targets and indicators to change
to match with the HAP
- A review/split up of SO3 needed to
better reflect progress of interventions
- Data on schools affected by the cyclone
received but not providing as much detail.
- Second Harmonized Assessment Report
Education
to provide an indication of how schools
have been affected, from a WASH
perspective
- Made a presentation on WASH Early
Recovery (ER) strategy with activities
focused on restoring pre-cyclone
situations.
- ER guidelines seen as capturing the
minimum scope of what is to be included
in ER activities.
- To avoid variation between the different
Early Recovery
agencies’ ER implementation scope, it is
WASH
essential to define the activities
Guidelines
considered outside the scope of ER
guidelines and sharing that with the
relevant Provincial authorities.
- The preferred approach is to capture any
requests that are seen outside of the
scope of ER by the Provincial Officers to be
considered to form part of future projects
AOB
- Planned meeting of major implementing
agencies (28 April) to discuss common
approach to procurement of items
required for implementation of early
recovery activities.
Richard / WASH
Cluster IMO
Hilson / UNICEF
Ana Zarkovic /
IFRC
Hilson to follow up with
Save the Children
who’re doing work in
WASH/Education
- To advise Provincial
Officers of Early
Recovery Strategy,
focusing the activities
considered outside of
the scope of early
recovery and develop a
system for capturing any
requests that are
outside of that scope to
be considered for any
future projects.
- Ana to pass the
document on to Brecht
for wider distribution to
all cluster members.
Obed / DGMWR
Other:
- Agreed to scale down WASH cluster meetings to once a week.
- Next meeting: Monday April 27, 9pm, NDMO
designed booklet with
all cluster members.
15,000 copies to be
printed this week.
- Richard to share the
presentation to
comment on their
respective figure with all
- Richard to prepare 3W
maps and share all
- Richard work with
agencies on the Relief
Distribution Tracker this
week.
- Each implementing
agency to come along
with first draft of major
items required.
- List to be consolidated
prior to meeting with
suppliers.