A coalition on water integrity in Tanzania in the pipeline !

A consultative workshop on integrity in the water sector was successfully conducted on12 July 2011 at SNV offices, Msasani in Dar es Salaam. The workshop, held under the auspices of the International Water Integrity Network –WIN, with members in over 30 countries including Tanzania, brought together 10 organisations with the aim of  collaborating  to strengthen water integrity in the water sector in Tanzania.

The workshop enabled participating organisations to develop a common understanding of WIN and its approaches, discuss how WIN can help to promote water integrity in Tanzania, and map out areas where WINs regional initiative could link up with local activities. The organisations represented included SNV Tanzania, GIZ, TAWASaNET, DARAJA, Policy Forum, WEPMO, ACRA, Transparency International, Water Aid and COBIHESA.

The workshop facilitated by Janek Hermann-Friede from the Thematic Programmes, and Monitoring and Evaluation , at the Water Integrity Network Secretariat in Berlin, Germany,  received many  important inputs from participants. COBIHESA Programme Officer, David Katusabe articulated the need to :

• ·         Provide training support to indigenous NGOs to increase their capacity to participate more effectively in promoting integrity in the water sector and development of the water sector as a whole,
• ·         strengthen TAWASaNET which was identified as the most suitable home for the envisaged water integrity forum in Tanzania,
• ·         help develop a baseline on corruption in the water sector and ,
• ·         provide support for conducting a public expenditure tracking survey (PET)for the water sector as none has been done.

The workshop was an important stage in the unfolding process of WINs engagement in Tanzania, following other meetings with the Ministry of Water officials and key water stakeholders.

A conspicuous missing conclusion at the workshop was on Sanitation, as noted by a participant from SNV, raising fears that it is still a grey area for interventions and funding despite its central role in the achievement of several  MDGs. The status of not clearly falling under the direct responsibility of either the health or the water sector, heightens its status as a crosscutting issue that deserves to be mainstreamed in all sector programmes.

COBIHESA has been an active WIN member since 2009, having participated in the process of expanding WINs international steering committee, evaluation of WINs programmes, and has, provided input in WINs processes whenever required. At local level, COBIHESA is currently finalising two research proposals: ‘Perceptions of Water Users in Dar es Salaam and Coast Region on Corruption in DAWASCO’; and ‘Assessment of the Magnitude of Unmet Water and Sanitation Needs in Primary Schools in Rufiji District and their Impact on Teaching, Learning and Health Outcomes’ .

One of the four aims of WIN’s Global Strategy 2011-2016 is to ‘help forge, encourage and support coalitions and facilitate programmes to increase integrity in the water sector and deal with corruption in a concerted and solution oriented way’.

muungano juu ya maji uadilifu katika Tanzania katika bomba!

warsha ya mashauriano juu ya uadilifu katika sekta ya maji mara kwa mafanikio uliofanywa on12 Julai 2011 katika ofisi za SNV, Msasani jijini Dar es Salaam. semina, uliofanyika chini ya mwamvuli wa Maji ya Kimataifa ya WIN-Mtandao Uadilifu, pamoja na wajumbe katika nchi zaidi ya 30 ikiwa ni pamoja na Tanzania, kuletwa pamoja mashirika 10 kwa lengo la kushirikiana kuimarisha uadilifu katika sekta ya maji maji katika Tanzania.

semina kuwezeshwa kushiriki mashirika ya kuendeleza uelewa wa pamoja wa WIN na njia yake, kujadili jinsi WIN inaweza kusaidia kukuza maji uadilifu katika Tanzania, na ramani ya maeneo ambapo mafanikio ya mpango wa kikanda inaweza link up kwa shughuli za kijamii. mashirika ya kuwakilishwa ni pamoja na SNV Tanzania, karatasi, TAWASaNET, daraja, Policy Forum, WEPMO, ACRA, Transparency International, Water Aid na COBIHESA.

semina kuwezeshwa na Janek Hermann-Friede kutoka Programu Thematic, na Ufuatiliaji na Tathmini, saa Uadilifu Maji katika Sekretarieti ya Mtandao Berlin, Ujerumani, alipokea pembejeo nyingi muhimu kutoka kwa washiriki. Afisa COBIHESA, David Katusabe samordnade haja ya:

• · Kutoa mafunzo ya msaada kwa mashirika ya asili ili kuongeza uwezo wao wa kushiriki kikamilifu katika kukuza uadilifu katika sekta ya maji na maendeleo ya sekta ya maji kwa ujumla,
• · Kuimarisha TAWASaNET ambayo ilikuwa kutambuliwa kama nyumbani kufaa zaidi kwa zilizotajwa jukwaa la maji uadilifu katika Tanzania,
• · Msaada kuendeleza msingi juu ya rushwa katika sekta ya maji na,
• · Kutoa msaada kwa ajili ya kufanya utafiti wa kufuatilia matumizi ya umma (PET) kwa ajili ya sekta ya maji kama hakuna umefanyika.

warsha ya hatua muhimu katika mchakato inayojitokeza ya mafanikio ya ushiriki katika Tanzania, kufuatia mikutano mingine na Wizara ya Maji na maafisa wa wadau muhimu wa maji.

waziwazi kukosa hitimisho katika warsha juu ya Usafi wa Mazingira, kama ilivyonakiliwa na mshiriki kutoka SNV, na kusababisha hofu kwamba bado ni eneo la kijivu kwa ajili ya utekelezaji na fedha licha ya nafasi yake muhimu katika mafanikio ya MDGs kadhaa. hali ya uwazi si kuanguka chini ya jukumu moja kwa moja ya afya ama au sekta ya maji, inaongeza hali yake kama suala crosscutting kwamba anastahili kuingizwa katika mipango yote ya sekta.

COBIHESA imekuwa kazi WIN mwanachama tangu 2009, baada ya kushiriki katika mchakato wa kupanua mafanikio ya Kamati ya Uendeshaji ya kimataifa, tathmini ya mipango ya mafanikio, na ina, mradi pembejeo katika michakato ya mafanikio ya kila required. Katika ngazi za mitaa, COBIHESA sasa ni kukamilisha mapendekezo ya utafiti mbili: 'maoni ya watumiaji wa maji Dar es Salaam na Mkoa wa Pwani juu ya Rushwa katika DAWASCO' na 'Tathmini ya ukubwa wa Maji mahitaji ambayo hayajafikiwa na Usafi wa Mazingira katika Shule ya Msingi katika Wilaya ya Rufiji na wao Athari kwa Matokeo Kufundisha, kujifunza na afya.

Moja ya malengo ya Mkakati wa nne wa Global WIN 2011-2016 ni 'kusaidia yazua, kuhamasisha na kusaidia muungano na kuwezesha mipango ya kuongeza uadilifu katika sekta ya maji na kukabiliana na rushwa katika njia za pamoja na ufumbuzi oriented.