District planning for sustainable water and sanitation services

Master planning is a critical part of WASH systems strengthening because it provides a clear costing plan and strategy towards reaching the SDG’s in a district. This course consolidates existing knowledge, experiences and tools on master planning and make it accessible to as part of a wider capacity support activity on master planning.

Course objectives

After completing this course, you will know:

• What a District WASH Master Plan is
• Why a District WASH Master Plan is it helpful towards reaching the SDG’s in a district
• How to start developing a District WASH Master Plan

Course outline

This course is divided into two parts and consists of 10 sessions that need to be completed in consecutive order (from session 1 to 10).

Part 1:

• Session 1 gives an introduction to district-level planning 
• Session 2 introduces a roadmap for developing and implementing a district WASH master plan.
• Session 3 introduces some of the concepts which are important in district WASH master planning
• Multiple choice test on sessions 1-3.

Part 2:
Each step for the development and implementation of a district WASH master plan, set out in the roadmap, is discussed in sessions 4 to 10.

• Session 4 focusses on situational assessment
• Session5 focusses on visioning
• Session 6 focusses on strategy development
• Session 7 focusses on costing of the provision of sustainable WASH services
• Session 8 focusses on matching the costs to sources of funding and financing
• Session 9 focusses on the launch and implementation of the master plan
• Session 10 focusses on the need to bring district WASH master plan development and implementation to scale and introduces strategies for doing so. 

Course duration

It takes a minimum of 8 hours to complete.