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3.5 Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Framework​
resilient and sustainable WASH services for all, always, everywhere 

Despite adhering to a host of common principles, humanitarian and development actors are not aligned in the planning, design and implementation in the WASH sector, whereas peace is more often not considered. Iver time, humanitarian crisis have become more frequent, effecting more people and lasting longer. This necessitates close collaboration and coordination between humanitarian and development actors in order to address needs in protracted crises settings and lay solid grounds for advancing the SDGs post crises.
 
It’s against that backdrop that a WASH collective outcome[1] is expected from the Humanitarian, Development and Peace actors to:
  • Strengthen the Resilience of WASH services.
  • Align humanitarian and development work together with a strong element on peacebuilding.
  • Protect gains, and where possible, progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals for water and sanitation (6.1 and 6.2).
To that end,  it is critical for humanitarian, development and peacebuilding actors to work more collaboratively in order to bridge current gaps.
 
To reach this goal, this initiative was set up to provide a global enabling environment to support the “effective operationalization” of the WASH Humanitarian, Development and Peace (Triple) Nexus and its expected WASH collective outcome. It aims to pursue the objectives of the Triple Nexus in the WASH sector -to ensure the sustainability of WASH investments and to contribute to strengthening the WASH sector resilience, thus paving the road for advancing the sustainable development goals, while enabling a more timely, predictable, high quality and cost-effective humanitarian response in times of crisis.

The first step is to create a common vision and understanding between the humanitarian and development WASH actors to increase the sustainability of WASH services in fragile settings. Relying on high-level advocacy and strategic partnerships, coordination between the humanitarian and development sectors will be strengthened to enable exchanges as knowledge sharing for example. This will help to strengthen the resilience of local WASH systems through systematic coordination. The vision statement of this initiative is, for fragile settings: “By 2030, resilient and sustainable WASH service for all, always, everywhere”.
This is embodied in the development of a Joint Operational Framework (JOF) that outlines a harmonized way of working for the humanitarian-development WASH sectors. The JOF will guide the practitioners in joint analysis, planning, coordination, leadership and risk management through relevant approaches and useful tools as series of case studies, monitoring, MEAL (monitoring, evaluation, accountability, learning) framework, JOF training etc.  It will also allow the establishment of more precise taxonomies on, for example, risks and opportunities, activities subject to Nexus Development-Peace-Humanitarian (NDPH) and the respective alternatives of H, D and P, accountability, common indicators etc.
Through these activities, the initiative aims to facilitate change in the sector by enabling a funding environment and coherent donor policies for the WASH-Nexus.

[1] A collective outcome is a concrete and measurable result that humanitarian, development and other relevant actors want to achieve jointly over 3-5 years to reduce people's needs, risks and vulnerabilities and increase their resilience OCHA Collective Outcomes April 2018.pdf (agendaforhumanity.org)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Provisional total budget:

425 000 USD

Synergies with:
Initiatives 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 4.2
Initiative's progress graph

Work in progress, will be uploaded soon.

LED BY:
PARTICIPANTS:
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Action Against Hunger, US Agency for International Development, German WASH Network, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent, International Organisation for Migration, Polish Action Humanitarian, Save The Children, and UN High Commissionner for Refugees

CONTRIBUTORS:

German WASH Network, International Medical Corps, and Solidarités International
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  • The collective
    • Historic
    • Strategy
    • Internal organisation >
      • Committees and Collective
      • Engaged actors
      • The Secretariat
    • Join us!
  • The initiatives
    • Information and knowledge >
      • 1.1 ''WASH Hub'' online platform
      • 1.2 Core data repository and tools
      • 1.3 WASH Severity Classification
      • 1.4 Accountability and Quality Approach
      • 1.5 Research and Innovation
    • Capacity and profesionnalisation >
      • 2.1 Training courses offerings WASH learning portal
      • 2.2 Competency framework-based certification mechanism
      • 2.3 Scaling up and localization for learning systems in humanitarian WASH
    • Coordination and partnership >
      • 3.2 Specialized expertise for the WASH sector
      • 3.3 Integration and coordination of WASH into public health issues
      • 3.4 Multi-sectoral integration and coordination of WASH
      • 3.5 Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Framework
      • 3.6 Field Support Team
    • Funding and advocacy >
      • 4.1 Secretariat of the WASH Road Map
      • 4.2 Sector Development and Strenghtening
      • 4.3 Advocacy for sector strengthening
  • Call To Action
  • Sector News
    • External events and publications >
      • 2021 World Water Week
      • 2022 World Water Forum
      • UN 2023 Water Conference
    • Actors events and publications
    • Internal events >
      • Advocacy Virtual Coffee & Workshop
      • Funding Virtual Coffee
      • Groundwater&humanitarian aid panel discussion
      • Research Virtual Coffee
      • UN2023WC and GWS Virtual Coffee
  • Resources
    • Public documentation
    • Internal documentation