WASH Standards

Emergency WASH Services/Standards

• Safe and Adequate Water:

• Sanitation
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• Hygiene Pormotion

• Drainage

• Waste Management
Phases of Response
• WASH response plan will be divided into 3 phases.
• Phase 1: First 15 days for life saving response
• Phase 2: 16 to 45 days
• Phase 3: 46 days up to 90 days.
All interventions would be implemented based on
immediate need and priority of the displaced
population and standard timeframe will be established
to deliver the life- saving intervention based on the
ground reality.
Safe and Adequate Water:
• Responsibility: All Cluster members under KVWSMB/KUKL/MoUD
leadership
• Objective: To provide safe drinking water to affected populations
(estimated 4.2 million people for 30 days) at 7 L/person/day initially
and upgraded within one month to 15 L /person/day (for drinking,
hygiene and cooking).
• Standard: See objective for quantity; accessibility, reliability and
quality following Nepal Standard and Sphere standards on drinking
water quality for emergencies
 Sanitation Standards
• Immediate excreta disposal options (designated defecation areas, trench latrines) - 1 week
• 1 toilet/50 people in 15-30 days; upgrade to 1 toilet/20 people (segregated by sex) after 1
month all in a package of hygiene promotion and incorporating gender/disability components
• Installation of urinals separate for male, female, children and disable people at larger camps
• Provided at each latrine: 1- 10 lit bucket, 1lit mug for anal cleansing and latrine cleaning kit
• Menstrual Hygiene Management system in place in female toilets
• 1 bathing space for 5 H/Hs (segregated by sex, therefore 2 bathing per 10 households
including 1 male and 1 female). Gender child and disable friendly bathing spaces

• WASH Cluster strategy:

• Agencies committing to construct temporary toilets and bathing facilities in camps to also
make provisions for upgrading and repair, hygiene promotion and ensure handwashing
facilities in each latrine site.
Hygiene Promotion
• To build the capacity of the affected people to make them able and accountable to use and
care the facilities/ services provided
• Ensure that camps are sufficiently clean so that the breeding of vector and spreading of the
vector borne disease could be controlled.
• Raise hygiene awareness in close coordination with the health cluster and prevent,
minimize and control the incidence of WASH related diseases in the vulnerable areas

• WASH Cluster Strategy:

• Capacity Building
• Use/mobilization of volunteers
• Use of local resources
• Coordination and networking
• Community mobilization
• Gender and social inclusion
• Information sharing and communication
Drainage , Solid Waste Management and Vector Control
• Responsibility: All Cluster members including DWSS/WSSDO in
coordination with Municipalities and national NGOs e.g. ENPHO
• Objective: To provide adequate sanitation facilities and safe disposal
of solid and liquid wastes for personal hygiene and vector control
• Standards:
• Waste water disposal and solid waste management in camps
• Vector control (flies and mosquitoes) in coordination with health
cluster
• No dwelling more than 100 m away from refuse container or pit
Overarching Strategy
• Humanitarian Principles
• Human Rights Based Approach
• Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
• Disability
• Respect to local cultures and sentiments
• Cultural sensitivity
• Language
• Children, Adolescents, young people and old
• Do no Harm
• Norms and Standards (consistency)
• Integrated approach and inter-agency collaboration
• Communication for Development
• Risk Management and Assessment
• M&E, Accountability and Transparency
Indicators
Water Supply Sanitation Hygiene WASH in Schools WASH in HCF
# of affected # of affected # of affected # of children # of health care
people provided people who households that accessing facilities provided
with sufficient are provided received a appropriate WASH with water supply,
quantity of water with toilets hygiene kit facilities and toilets, handwash
of appropriate and handwash hygiene education facilities
quality for facilities in temporary
drinking, cooking learning spaces,
and personal and other child-
hygiene friendly spaces
Thank You!