MALAWI: FACTS AND FIGURES

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Total Population : 15, 910, 000

Per capita Income : US$ 900/year (8th poorest)

Water Coverage : 83%

Sanitation Coverage: 51%

Hygiene coverage : 37%

Open Defecation : 8%

Project areas for Everyone Forever:

• Peri-urban Blantyre; Pop ≈ 500, 000

• Rural Chikhwawa; Pop ≈ 484, 000

EVERYONE FOREVER: OH NO! NOT ANOTHER NGO SLOGAN!

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Full and lasting coverage

Making ambitious WASH investments

Building local capacities

Strengthening local economies and markets

Testing new and risqué ideas

Sharing learning to influence practice

EVERYONE FOREVER: OH NO! NOT ANOTHER NGO SLOGAN!

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We keep good company

Possess local knowledge

Have social capital/rapport

Last longer than us

Trickle-down of practice

Everyone Forever Ethos is maintained

LOCAL NGOS: ACCEPTED BEST PRACTICE

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Local WASH NGOs

INGO – NGO partnering

INGO is indirect implementer

Builds local capacity

NGO implements directly

Replicate best practice

LOCAL NGOS: THE REALITY

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Have multiple concurrent partners/donors

Low level of commitment to values

Resistant to market development thinking

Culture of Poverty

Administrative nightmare

Unsustainable partner option

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: ACCEPTED BEST PRACTISE

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Local municipality or public utility

Crucial for policy changes or regulation

Extensive networks

Build local capacity

Actual implementation with local NGO

Create linkages and trust with local CSO

LOCAL GOVERNMENT: THE REALITY

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Susceptible to political logic

High staff turnover

Fraud / Allowance Please!

Laissez Faire / Strategy Disconnect

Resistant to market thinking

PRIVATE SECTOR: ACCEPTED PRACTISE

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Mostly masons, water mechanics & banks

Build their technical and financial capacity

Offer marketing support Bank Guarantees

Mentorship and Monitoring

PRIVATE SECTOR: THE REALITY

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Small scale in nature

Poor selection →→→ poor performance

Dependency on us

Resistance to market thinking

Social monitoring lacking– banks

LESSONS WE’VE LEARNT ABOUT PARTNERS

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Focus on thematic areas e.g. CAMA

Leave business to business people e.g. TEECs

NGOs distort expectation e.g. OIBM

If they don’t exist – create them! E.g. coalition

Better the devil you don’t know

Have a shared and demonstrated philosophy