VAC-13464 Wash Extender

Implementation of WASH programme at scale (assessment, design, monitoring and handover, operationalization) including but not limited to Solar Powered Water Supply Piped Network and Chlorination Facility in Tapa Fiqirabad village of Surobi district. In addition, the facilitator will extend its support to   other rural and urban water supply, sanitation, hygiene promotion, WASH in Institutions and WASH in Emergency projects:

Forty years of war, recurrent natural disasters, chronic poverty,
drought, flood, and the AWD epidemic have devastated the people of Afghanistan
which have left a considerable proportion of the population in Afghanistan with
limited access to safe water, adequate sanitation facilities and hygiene
practices.

The recent political developments have also pushed Afghanistan into
economic crisis. This had immediate repercussions across an economy already
facing daunting development challenges. Rapid reduction in international
support, loss of access to offshore assets, and disruption to financial
linkages are expected to lead to a major contraction of the economy, increasing
poverty, and macroeconomic instability.

Millions of people lack access to safe drinking water, sanitation,
and hygiene (WASH) in Afghanistan, where access to basic WASH is the lowest in some
densely populated provinces across the country. 
The situation is more pronounced in rural areas where 44% of population
lack basic drinking water supply, less than 45% lack access to basic sanitation
and less than 40% of the population have access to handwashing at home[1].

Poor access to basic WASH services adversely impacts the survival,
health, and protection of the most vulnerable segments of the population. There
is a continuous high baseline risk of water and sanitation related disease
outbreak, including cholera and other water borne diseases. Poor water,
sanitation and hygiene disproportionately affect women and girls who often bear
the burden for water fetching and can be more vulnerable to violence when
traveling far from home for water and sanitation needs.

There are signs that existing WASH systems could collapse quickly
if action is not taken to ensure WASH is adequately resourced.  Given the technical nature of operating water
and sanitation services, if key technical posts in water utilities or service
providers are vacated due to lack of salary payments, services can falter or
fail, leaving millions in cities and towns without water and sanitation
services. Similarly, if support to Community Development Councils responsible
for WASH service delivery in rural areas fall short, around 70% of Afghanistan
population will be affected[2]. To
support preventing sector collapse, and provide access to basic services,
UNICEF supports the sector and its relevant ministries such as Ministry of
Education (MoE), Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and Ministry of Rural
Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD) with recruiting, deploying, and financing
national/local WASH Technical Facilitator will be based in Sarobi to support
the people of the community in the operation and maintenance and running of the
Sarubi Solar Powered Water Supply Piped Network and Chlorination Facility and
also will strengthen WASH programme planning, supervision and monitoring at
different level. The focus is on improving children’s access to basic human
rights on water and sanitation.  

Specific Tasks/Activities 

1.Organize on the site training for CDCs, WMCs, assigned mechanics and contractors to ensure the high-standard construction of the Sarubi and other water supply project is done which is also aimed at establishing and training the O&M committee and WMC with a particular importance on promoting female participation, proper running the water network and to ensure the efficient management and operation of the Sarubi water treatment project.

2.Support the Water management committee and CDC members in proper operationalizing of Surobi water treatment plant and Solar powered water supply project.

 3.Organize water safety planning workshops and hygiene promotion sessions for the beneficiaries.

4.Support WASH Knowledge Management through documentation and sharing WASH best practices with UNICEF WASH team.

5.Survey (technical and economic), design, implement and monitor WASH projects in rural and pre-urban communities, schools, and healthcare facilities and support for water quality testing. 

6.Use AutoCAD, Water CAD, Water GEMs and other design software packages for the design and drafting of WASH infrastructure including groundwater and surface water pumping systems.

7.Visit the selected urban, peri-urban, and rural communities, schools, health facilities for quality control and technical spot checks to assure the construction and field works are in line with the design and specifications, WASH policy, and guidelines and provide technical feedback to the partners on their performance and report to UNICEF CR WASH team. 

8.Oversee the payments and transactions to the implementing partner(s) to make sure the payments are done as per the actual works completed and on time.

Any other duty requested by the supervisor.

1.Water Management Committee including mechanics are trained on Operation and Maintenance (O&M) and sustainability Sarubi and other water supply projects and empower potentials groups of beneficiaries to promote hygiene practise in their day to day live and support them to become agent of changes in their communities.

2.Proper mechanism for operation and maintenance of water supply project is developed and activated. 

3.water safety planning workshops organized. 

4.WASH related stories developed and best practices are documented and shared with UNICEF. 

5.WASH need technical assessment (Surveys) and detailed feasibility studies (Social, technical, economical, and environmental) are carried out and water quality tests are conducted in identified communities, schools and health facilities and reports are prepared and submitted to UNICEF.

6. WASH interventions are designed for the identified sites and BoQs, drawings, specifications, full set of contract/tendering and other required documents are prepared and shared with UNICEF.

7.Visit project sites, conduct regular monitoring and supervisions from the project sites, quality of project works is controlled, and field visit reports are shared with partners and UNICEF CR WASH team.  

8.  WASH projects payment requests are processed as per agreed payment modality and schedule.

Minimum
Qualification and Experience:

·A bachelor’s university degree in one of the following fields is
required: Civil Engineering, Water supply engineering, sanitary engineering, or
another relevant technical field. 

·A minimum of 5 years of professional work experience in
WASH-related programmes for developing countries is required.

·A minimum of 1-year practical experience in implementation of
water treatment plants for provision of safe drinking water. 

Fluency in English is required. 

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