Afghanistan

Commitments	Progress Stage	Priority Area	Category
Progress: Completed Almost Completed Good Progress Slow Progress Major Barriers No data
Develop a water quality monitoring system, including mechanisms and protocols for undertaking periodic water quality surveys and water treatment activities	2014 2013	Evidence Based Decision Making	Monitoring
Milestones of Progress: Different organizations working on water quality from the government, private sector and NGOs have now started to coordinate and work more on quality assurance and accuracy mechanisms. No water quality monitoring strategy is in place to map results and coordinate water quality testing. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Development of national water safety plan, specific focus on arsenic and fluoride risk areas/technical and financial support of donors/partners and the Government for execution of the plan. Manual on arsenic and fluride testing has been developed. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Possible (with extra effort) Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some Influence
Allocate by 2014 US$150 million for integrated services, including water supply and sanitation, hygiene promotion, capacity building, water quality, water sources protection and Operation and Maintenance, in line with MDG 4	2014 2013	Political Prioritization	Financing
Milestones of Progress: The changing political situation such as the withdrawal of international forces and the closure of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) are resulting in low funds for development activities including WASH. Donors are not willing to continue funding until the new government is in place. The security situation is the third milestone which is discouraging. There is low level political support and more focus on water projects for irrigation and big infrastructure rather than drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: To start designing the World Bank funded projects. The government investment needs to be increased and more advocacy and political support needs to come to the sector by the government and the donor communities. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Yes, likely Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some influence
Promote hygiene education with appropriate follow-up activities in schools, households and communities for sustained behaviour change and adoption of safe hygiene practices	2014 2013	National Planning Processes	Planning
Milestones of Progress: Through CLTS and hygiene education processes, 130 villages have been covered and more than 20 villages declared as open defecation free. The process is being expanded now. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Likely to Achieve for 2014? Yes, likely Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some influence
Undertake a capacity needs assessment for sanitation and safe drinking water to prepare for a transition to a sector-wide approach in functioning and translating WASH policy into practice	2014 2013	Evidence Based Decision Making	Evidence
Milestones of Progress: Standardization of WASH sector elements (policy, implementation mannual, water quality standards and technical options of water and sanitaiton infrastructures). Regular coordination meetings and WASH cluster meetings are taking place. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Likely to Achieve for 2014? Possible (with extra effort) Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some influence
Develop Mid-Term and long-term strategic plans to increase safe drinking water and sanitation coverage from 27% to 50% by 2014 and to 100% by 2020 respectively	2014 2013	National Planning Processes	Planning
Milestones of Progress: New strategic plan to increase access to safe drinking water from 39.4 percent to 60 percent by 2018 and 100 percent by 2025. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Start revising the current strategic plan and map out data and achievements in order to proceed with better planning and investments. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Yes, likely Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some influence
Scale-up rural sanitation by strengthening the participation of the private sector and implementation of Community Led Total Sanitation(CLTS) approaches	2014 2013	Political Prioritization	Private Sector
Milestones of Progress: Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Expansion of the CLTS and hygiene promotion programme based on a positive result from 2013 and work closely with community elders. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Yes, likely Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some influence
Integrate Disaster Risk Reduction in the safe drinking water and sanitation programmemes	2014 2013	National Planning Processes	Planning
Milestones of Progress: Mainstreaming DRR in development projects and strengthening the continuation of the WASH cluster at national and sub-national levels. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Active intervention and function of WASH cluster at national and provincial level. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Possible (with extra effort) Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: No influence
Prepare a capacity development strategy and action plan for safe drinking water and sanitation in Afghanistan	2014 2013	National Planning Processes	Capacity
Milestones of Progress: Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Continue planned trainings under the Norwegian funded project for capacity building of sector technical experts. Plan for the development of the new strategy and collect the data and information on existing capacity to proceed with new actitivites. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Possible (with extra effort) Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: No influence
Design and operationalize a sector-wide Monitoring and Evaluation system for the drinking water and sanitation sector in Afghanistan together with strong Management Information System (MIS) for the sector	2014 2013	Evidence Based Decision Making	Monitoring
Milestones of Progress: Huge data needs to be entered into the new MIS/GIS system. The system to enhance outreach staffing and capacity, data collection and management for effective planning and descison making needs to be finalized. Steps Remaining to Fully Achieve: Localization of the MIS system, plan for training and orientation workshops. Harmonization of the engineering manual for WASH and printing for distribution to all stakeholders. Likely to Achieve for 2014? Yes, likely Influence of 2012 HLM on progress of commitment: Some Influence