Master planning is a critical part of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems strengthening because it provides a clear costing plan and strategy towards reaching the SDG’s in a district.
This online 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.
It is for anyone wanting to know how to (facilitate stakeholders to) develop and implement district-level long-term strategic plans for ensuring sustainable WASH services for all. This is also called a district WASH master plan.
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
This course takes a minimum of 8 - 10 hours to complete. The duration of each session is estimated at 1 hour each. You have one-year free access to this course.
Course outline
This course is divided into two parts and consists of 10 sessions.
Part 1:
- Session 1 gives an introduction to district-level planning, what a district WASH master plan is and what it can look like.
- Session 2 introduces a roadmap for developing and implementing a district-level long-term strategic plan for ensuring sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene service provision to all: a district WASH master plan.
- Session 3 introduces some of the concepts which are important in district WASH master planning: service levels, service delivery models (SDMs) and local WASH systems strengthening.
- Multiple choice test on sessions 1-3.
Each step for the development and implementation of a district WASH master plan, set out in a roadmap, is discussed in sessions 4 to 10.
- Session 4 focusses on situational assessment. It describes what could and should be included in such an analysis and provides an overview of tools and methods which can be used to undertake a situational analysis.
- Session5 focusses on visioning. It sets out what a vision is, what should be included and how a clear joint vision and targets can be developed.
- Session 6 focusses on strategy development. It sets out how scenarios can support development of realistic strategies and how strategy development can be done.
- Session 7 focusses on costing of the provision of sustainable WASH services in line with the strategic plan. This block introduces the life-cycle costs. It also sets out how a costed plan can be developed, taking into account these life-cycle costs.
- Session 8 focusses on matching the costs to sources of funding and financing. It introduces tariffs, transfers and taxes, the "three Ts", as the main sources of funding. It furthermore sets out how costs can be matched to these sources of funding, how this can be visualised through sankey diagrams, and how a funding and financing strategy can be developed.
- Session 9 focusses on the launch and implementation of the master plan. It sets out the medium and annual cycles of planning and target setting, implementation and monitoring.
- Finally, Session 10 focusses on the need to bring district WASH master plan development and implementation to scale and introduces strategies for doing so.
