Water, Sanitation Update- from WASH Cluster Gp 1.23

Below is yesterday's report on WATER DISTRIBUTION in Leogane and the capital by the WASH Cluster logistics group for the Haiti quake.

Note the different partners involved, including local Haitian organizations who may be sources of information for groups on the ground seeking access to water in these cities and other areas....

Clearly, progress....

WASH Cluster Haiti Update 23 January

Partners:
ACF, MSF-F, OXFAM,CRE, Red Cross, GMEP, LIAUTAUD, MSF-B, GCC, GRET, GRET ODC, WINNER, CARE, Comite St Surin, Comite rue Pacot, FISEH, ACTED, WORLD VISION, Haiti Outreach, HOPE HAITI, CRS Haiti, HOPE HAITI, WORLD VISION, Merlin, Plan International, Children Voice Foundation (SFI), SFI - Comite Local, FLM, SAVE THE CHILDREN, Mairie de Tabarre, Mairie de Pétion-Ville, Mairie de Carrefour

Note: the above list is not exhaustive. Only those partners implementing (and reporting) WASH in PaP are mentioned.

Action
• 1st WASH cluster coordination meeting outside of Port au Prince took place in Leogan and gathered over 18 WASH cluster partners (minute of the meeting to come tomorrow)
• 16 organizations are getting involved or planning a response in the areas of Gressier, Leogan, Petit Goive and Grand Goive
• A sanitation meeting took place to organize a jump start of sanitation response in Leogan. Agreement reached is that IFRC (trough the Austrian Red Cross) will use its mass sanitation module to begin the construction of latrines for the 20,000 people located in 6 sites in Leogan city. Management of these latrines will be done by individual organizations involved in the various sites
• CARE, ACF, Spanish Red cross, Canadian Army are providing water supply in Leogan town. Given the number of actors already involved or planning to in Leogan, water supply in Leogan Town is a need but no longer a priority. The priority for water supply in leogan is at the rural areas (sections communales)
• Agreement has been reached to have at least one sub cluster in Leogan. Details to be worked out by DINEPA and UNICEF which will be presented to the WASH cluster partners on the 25/01
• Providing input to the document prepared by OCHA for the SRSG in the framework of Conference on Haiti, which will take place in Canada
• Attending inter cluster meeting and discussed the importance on how to involve the national authorities in the clusters
• Field monitoring in 15 camps of Port au Prince took place by one of the monitoring focal point. All sites visited, except one had water.
• At least 1.175 m3 of water distributed in 115 different places of the city of Port au Prince, for an estimated population of 235.000 people
• Efforts for scale up water supply are based on restabilising the network in PaP and the water vendor system. Focus is made to speed up the process. DINEPA & partners assure first phase of free distribution
• Agreement with DINEPA on:
o basis of monitoring mechanism to follow up water production and distribution
o monitoring mechanism for fuel stock and use
o Need to increase dramatically number of bladders to accelerate distribution
o Use of bottled water as temporary strategy until ‘exit strategy’ will be ready in hospitals, health centres, child protection structures
o New water points distribution will be included in distribution plan if coming organized and based in recommendation done by NGOs and Municipalities
• DINEPA & partners will set up a mechanism to support Municipalities to organize community based organizations to assume water distribution and will set up the link of water distribution points with the 508 identified settlements by Shelter cluster.

Plan for tomorrow (1/24)'

• Distribution of water in 115 points to distribute 1.400 m3 of water (potential population of 281.000 people)
• Joint visit from different agencies and DINEPA to Canape Vert and Carrefour to follow up activities and discuss organization system (all WASH and NFIs) in Carrefour
• Water Supply working group
• Monitoring visit in PaP
• Inter cluster meeting