WASH SDG Indonesia (including COVID-19 prevention) SUMMARY 
The WASH SDG Project in Indonesia started in July 2017 and is part of the Netherlands WASH SDG Consortium Programme implemented by WASH Alliance International (WAI), SNV and Plan International in Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Nepal. Plan Indonesia is implementing the project in three districts and one municipality in the East and West Nusa Tenggara provinces. The programme aims to improve access to sanitation for 90,000 rural people and for 551,000 urban people. The programme focuses on improving the position of women, girls and other socially excluded groups. Gender transformative approaches as a part of community led total sanitation activities, sanitation marketing, and demand driven activities will be used to attain the objectives. The project locations were selected based on criteria of high poverty rates, low access to WAS facilities, low level of MHM knowledge and practices among adolescent girls and high levels of stunting. The poverty of East Nusa Tenggara  is characterized by the limited availability and access to educational facilities, health, WASH and food.Because of he lack of water in rural communities of East Nusa Tenggara women, men, and children are spending much time to fetch water for daily use. Although access to water has been improved in the province of West Nusa Tenggara, sanitation and hygiene are still far from improved with almost 50 per cent of people are still not using water and soap for handwashing; 30 per cent of people still consume contaminated water and food and over 60 per cent of the people  drink untreated water.  
Women leadership and participation in the community decision making process remains very low.since  Furthermore, people with disabilities and elderly are hardly ever involved in meetings also because public facilities are often not accessible.  There is no binding government regulation that directly mandates specific involvement of and fund allocation for women, PWD and the elderly. The WASH SDG programme-level Theory of Change (ToC) was developed and validated in early 2017. As established in the proposal approved by DGIS, the WASH SDG programme is built on the assumption that sustainable and equitable use of WASH by all can be achieved in a locality through  :
•	Improved behaviour change interventions that lead to increased demand for improved WASH facilities and practices. 
•	Improved WASH service provision that leads to increased availability and affordability of WASH products and services 
•	Strengthened WASH governance and institutional framework that leads to governments enabling efficient and effective delivery of inclusive and sustainable WASH services. In order for WASH to be sustainable and equitable, the programme also assumes that two additional approaches should be endorsed and integrated transversally:
•	gender transformative and socially inclusive WASH 
•	climate resilient WASH services. The programme will support existing Government WASH programmes and is aligned with the project activities of WaterWorX and Blue Deal. Progress on reaching the targets is lagging behind, making it difficult for the government to attain the SDG commitment on reaching 50% safely managed WASH by 2030. Currently Indonesia holds the second highest number of citizens defecating in the open. The WASH activities of the programme will complement the water interventions of the Ministry of Public Works and addresses capacity gaps within the WASH sector at the national, district or city level. Since the SBTM (CLTS) five pillar strategy  mainly focusses on attaining ODF, insufficient priority is given to the other pillars: hand washing, drinking treated water, manage household solid and liquid waste; the interests of the people most affected by poor WASH are rarely  addressed by government; 15% of all primary schools in Indonesia lack sufficient access to clean water and 54% of all primary schools lack separate toilet for boys and girls; 37% of the children under 5 are stunted. Although the development cooperation programmes of the Dutch Embassy of the Netherlands (EKN) in Indonesia are being phased out gradually close coordination is taking place regarding the WASH SDG project. The programme will increase access to sanitation for 150.000 people and hygiene for 229.900 people in selected communities in Malaka and Belu in NTT and Mataram and Lombok in NTB. 
The selected communities were chosen because access to WASH is limited and a high percentage of the households living in these villages have a low income status. Pathway 1  : 
The vision is that 100 pilot communities and 40 pilot schools in the target areas have reached the Open Defecation Free (ODF) status  and have moved up the sanitation and hygiene ladder  through the use of the GESI STBM approach, within the first two years of the programme. In the third and fourth year of the programme the capacity of the district government is enhanced sufficient to replicate these efforts with funding from  the District and City budget (APBD).
Women, girls and people with disabilities are empowered This will result in (1) an increased level of participation of those groups in WASH activities in the community, (2) increased levels of shared WASH workload (3) increased level of decision making on WASH in the household and (4) an increase level of leadership positions in communities. Fathers and mothers have also improved their knowledge and practices about baby WASH . In order to make progress towards this Plan will develop a GESI STBM training module. This will be used to train the different WASH Working groups from the Provincial, to the village level. Capacity of these Working groups will also be enhanced on how to promote baby WASH. Plan will also support the establishment  of these active groups that are able to lead the implementation of STBM as stipulated in the National STBM Policy. Plan will support District Working groups with the formation of at least 40 sub-district STBM Teams that are active and functioning to assist in implementing STBM in the community. Plan will encourage membership and leadership from women/people with disability in the membership of these working groups.
Finally, Plan will use the GWMT to improve and monitor levels of participation of women and socially excluded groups throughout the programme. For further information on these can be found in the inception report (July 2018). Through these tools, men and boys will also be targeted to ensure women and girls are given the space within WASH activities and decision making and the (baby) WASH workload is shared more equally.

Pathway 2: The vision is that the target communities and schools have access to affordable and sustainable products that support attaining all the 5 STBM pillars:
1.	Pilar 1: sale of toilet pan, toilet, and inclusive latrine package, and regular faecal sludge emptying service
2.	Pilar 2: construction of sink and handwashing tools for kids
3.	Pilar 3: water service provision and water filters
4.	Pilar 4: provision of community-based waste management services or products
5.	Pilar 5: service provision for liquid household waste management (sewer)
In order to make progress towards this Plan will conduct a sanitation marketing study to find out which products are currently not available or not affordable in the target areas. Plan will train existing and new entrepreneurs on business and marketing skills in all four target areas and will encourage women and people with disabilities to take a leading role as entrepreneurs or within WASH businesses. New WASH product designs, made by the local entrepreneurs with support of Plan,  will  be piloted to test if they suit the market in the target areas. Plan will also support the Mataram City government with the formulation of city regulations to prevent illegal dumping of faecal sludge.

Pathway 3: the vision is that the Gender and Social inclusion is reflected in national, provincial and district WASH policies and that the GESI STBM training module is embraced and used by the national, provincial, and district level governments. Women organisations and disability organisations are enabled by the government to participate and hold strategic positions in WASH decision making. National monitoring systems are adjusted to track progress on SDG 6 and national definitions on the WASH ladders have been agreed upon and are contextualized. In order to make progress towards this Plan will support the national government on how to include data on ODF and the other 4 pillars in the online STBM monitoring systems . Through the national WASH working groups, Plan will support the National government with the operationalisation of the SDG’s. Plan will support with the formation of the City/District POKJA AMPL and lobby for  city/district policy and adequate budget from the Bupati/Walikota (City/District Head). The active and functioning POKJA AMPL will conduct regular coordination meetings) that involve all members from across the institutions/agencies where they  will conduct STBM. Financial sustainability : 
The Indonesian Government and the District working groups will be involved during the implementation to ensure the sustainability of the program and guarantee an adequate financial support from the district government. Target for the district government is to issue policy and allocate budget for CLTS (=STBM)-GESI activities.  In a bid to build a sense of ownership, communities will be required to contribute a cash contribution based on an appropriate tariff to ensure effective operation and maintenance of water sources. 
Institutional sustainability: The Indonesian Government is having a strong National CLTS Policy, how ever, with the decentralization of the government, the implementation of national policy on district level is going slow. Plan will conduct capacity building and technical assistance for Sub-district CLTS Team, to encourage district government’s policy to institutionalize GESI-CLTS on their government activities’ planning. The existing monitoring system will be used and will ensure the sustainability of the program. The districts government signed cooperation agreements within 100 pilot villages and 40 pilot schools as a model for replication under the responsibility and funds of the district government. The sustainability compacts will be signed in 2020.  

Ecological sustainability: The District Disaster Management Body and the Public Works Agency in the membership of POKJA AMPL will be involved to ensure ecological sustainability of WASH Facilities, by providing  guidelines to build WASH facilities that are resilient to disasters and environmentally save. 
Technical sustainability: The District Disaster Management Body and the Public Works Agency will be involved also to technical sustainability of WASH Facilities, by providing  technical guidelines to build WASH facilities that are resilient to disasters and environmentally save. 

Social sustainability: Plan will work with the foundations People with Disability to enhance their WASH knowledge, who will then subsequently train government staff on social inclusion. The capacity of the District women groups will be strengthened to enhance their advocacy role toward the WASH working group to promote gender and social inclusion within the WASH policies at the district level. Natural leaders will be engaged in the communities as CLTS Team members assisting in campaigning the behaviour change and monitoring at community level. The school clubs established will promote the participation of the youngest people and enhancing their social inclusion in the local policies.