SBC Climate Resilient WaSH Strategy Framework_Uzbekistan

Part 1 provides an overview of the Climate Emergency related challenges that will affect future WaSH programs in Uzbekistan, the institutional framework and policy context, including references to relevant SDGs, national strategies and plans, within which UNICEF Uzbekistan SBC CR WaSH programs will be working.

The associated Strategic Framework and Theory of Change is intended to guide practitioners to understand the logic of program design as a cyclical process (see Part 2. Section 1.5) within which research, evidence and learning from “the field” will be used to inform stakeholders, leadership groups, policy makers and technicians at all levels of the Socio Ecological Model, of the challenges faced and opportunities available within WaSH programs in the context of the evolving Climate Emergency.

Such a research and evidence based process is intended to support the active participation of WaSH stakeholders, in an ongoing problem/solution analysis of the challenges faced by the sector within the context of the Climate Emergency and the governance systems and program responses required to meet these.

Crucially, the processes involved are intended to identify and test effective Climate Resilient WaSH strategies, as well as potential or existing barriers to, or drivers of, their widespread adoption, through a MEAL strategic approach (see Part 2. Section 1.5) that promotes learning from programs at a project level, to inform future national level policy response and technical design.

As such, whilst WaSH programs are initially identified with the context of Republic of Karakalpakstan (ROK), it is the intention of the strategy that learning will be used to inform the roll out of the approach within the sector and across Uzbekistan as a whole.

The Social and Behaviour Change Approach (see box below and Part 3 Annex 0 for a fuller explanation of the SBC approach) is identified as being innovative within the context of Uzbekistan and is significantly different from its IEC and BCC precedents, acknowledging the limitations of approaches that focus upon the individual, to one that highlights the significant influence of broader social, cultural and political factors upon public health promotion.