Summary of Study Session 7

In Study Session 7, you have learned that:

1. Major programmes of activities like the OWNP need a good organisational structure that clearly defines roles and responsibilities and describes relationships between groups at all levels of the organisation.
2. Relationships within organisations may be vertical (between higher and lower levels) or horizontal (between groups at the same level).
3. The OWNP structure is organised into four main types of activity: governance and guidance, oversight and management, implementation and coordination. There are separate committees or teams for each of these activities at federal, regional, zonal, and woreda or town/city levels.
4. Governance and overall strategic leadership of the OWNP is the responsibility of the National WASH Steering Committee (NWSC).
5. OWNP implementation is managed at national and regional levels by WASH technical teams. Implementation itself is the responsibility of Programme Management Units (PMUs) in the three main WASH ministries/bureaus. Each of these has their own areas of responsibility and undertake activities towards achieving WASH improvement targets.
6. At community level, WASH Committees ensure communities take responsibility for the operation and maintenance of specific water schemes. Half of WASHCO members must be women.
7. OWNP activities and communications are coordinated by coordination offices at national, regional and zonal levels. They exchange information between groups and liaise between different parts of the organisational structure.