UNICEF Bolivia WASH 2018-2024 - UNICEF Bolivia WASH 2018-2021 UNICEF Bolivia WASH 2018-2024 The initiative aims to promote decentralized sanitary models (Montero (Santa Cruz)) and El Alto (La Paz), and work for scaling up them. The initiative focuses on peri-urban areas where the embassy has had previous commitments with the installation of sanitary models. UNICEF is a contracting party and will in turn enter into agreements with local partners and work to:
- Strengthen institutional capacity at national and sub-national level
- Contribute to sustainable and equal access to sanitary services (dry toilets) in peri urban areas and schools (in accordance with the 2025 Patriotic Agenda and Global Sustainability Objectives 20130)
- Promote behavioral changes for healthy hygiene habits including local hygiene at schools, schools and health centers
- Promote alternative sanitation models for the closing of the water cycle and recovery of nutrients
- Impact efforts to include and adopt WASH challenges in public policies.

Planned activities to achieve the above goals are; to conduct a university course for technicians in the field of urban water and sanitation through the Universidad NUR, workshops and seminars, technical support for water treatment plants and water suppliers (EPSAS) and municipalities to improve knowledge and service for water and especially sanitation, the construction of 100 dry toilets to accommodate sanitary needs in El Alto and Montero.

UNICEF's work in WASH generally focuses on meeting the needs of the most marginalized areas, rural communities and excluded urban areas, with the ambition of reducing water and sanitation gaps. UNICEF has a strong rights and gender equality focus and the Embassy has had previous positive experiences in working with UNICEF Bolivia's WASH team. The work will be carried out between April 2018 and December 2020. Certain preparatory work has already begun in agreement with the 
Embassy. The initiative complements support for UNICEF's country program 2018-2020, where UNICEF works for WASH in rural areas. Insatsen ämnar installera och främja installering av decentraliserade sanitets modeller (torr toaletter) i Montero (Santa Cruz) och El Alto (La Paz) och verka för uppskalning av dessa modeller. Insatsen fokuserar på peri-urbana områden där ambassaden har haft tidigare åtaganden med installering av sanitetsmodeller. UNICEF är avtalspart och kommer i sin tur att ingå avtal med lokala partners och arbeta för att: 
-Stärka institutionell kapacitet på nationell och sub nationell nivå
-Bidra till hållbar och jämlik tillgång till sanitetsservice (torr toaletter) i områden och skolor (i enlighet med den patriotiska agendan 2025 och de globala hållbarhetsmålen 20130)
-Främja beteendeförändringar för hälsosamma hygienvanor inkluderat menshygien på lokal nivå, i skolor och hälsocenter
-Främja alternativa sanitetsmodeller för ett kretsloppstänk som tillåter återvinning av näringsämnen
-Påverkansarbete för att inkludera och anta utmaningar inom WASH i offentliga policys. 
Planerade aktiviteter för att nå ovan mål är; att genomföra en universitetskurs för tekniker inom området urbant vatten och sanitet genom Universidad NUR, workshops och seminarium, tekniskt stöd till vattenreningsverk och vattenleverantörer (EPSAS) och kommuner för att förbättra kunskaper och service för vatten och framförallt sanitet, byggandet av 100 torrtoaletter för att tillgodose sanitetsbehov i El Alto och Montero. 
 
UNICEFs arbete inom WASH fokuserar på att möta behoven i de mest marginaliserade områden, rurala samhällen med största delen urinvånare och exkluderade urbana zoner, med ambitionen att minska sociala, kulturella och geografiska klyftor. UNICEF har ett starkt rättighets och jämställdhetsfokus och ambassaden har tidigare positiv erfarenhet av att arbeta med UNICEF Bolivias WASH team. Arbetet kommer att utföras mellan april 2018 till och med mars 2020. Visst förberedelsearbete har redan påbörjats i överrenskommelse med ambassaden. Insatsen komplementerar stödet till UNICEFs landprogram 2018-2020 där UNICEF arbetar för WASH i rurala områden. The objectives of the contribution are to:

- Strengthen capacities at the subnational level (including the Montero and Cobijas GAMs and utilities in the area of intervention); strengthen capacities at the national level (including the MMAyA and the VAPSB) and build synergy between rural institutions and the AAPS, EMAGUA and SENASBA, through cascade training.

- Assist with increasing sustainable and equitable access to sanitation services in neighborhoods and in schools in the area of intervention and, consequently, support the fulfillment of the sanitation targets of the 2025 Patriotic Agenda and the 2030 SDGs, and promote the scaling up of sanitation, implemented in a decentralized manner.

- Promote the adoption of healthy hygiene habits (behavioral change), including MHM and WASH in schools, in clinics and in childcare facilities, strengthening gender equity and violence prevention.

- Advocate for addressing the main WASH challenges in public policies targeting national and WASH sector authorities. These responses to theses challenges are: i) scaling up sanitation, promoting decentralization and an integrated approach in water, sanitation and hygiene actions, ii) increasing/strengthening efforts to address climate change, risk management and resilience, iii) contributing to the sustainability of water and sanitation services, iv) contributing to implementing sector policies, regulations, standards and manuals, v) building the basis for contributing to the SDGs, while strengthening the sustainability and quality of the water, sanitation and hygiene services, in normal and emergency situations.

- Develop alternative management models for implementing decentralized sustainable sanitation systems (dry toilets) that close the sanitation cycle.

- In addition, a new compoment as a emergency response to the massive flood that has affected Cobija municipality and its population has been added (Mar 2024). The response will focus on i) Psychological support, prevention of separation and violence, ii) provision of domestic filters for water treatment at the point of consumption, iii) community-level water system replacement and restoration, iv) promotion of hygiene habits in shelters, and v) procurement and distribution of hygiene kits to affected families.