Question:
Discuss about the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council.
The Sector that is assigned for doing the project is Water, Sanitation and waste management. An analysis shows that the 40% of the population in this world do not have sufficient facilities of sanitation. Because of these poor sanitation facilities, it is found that the 7 Lakh child deaths occur in a year due to diarrhoea. It is very significant to create a highly hygienic environment. The toilets, wastewater management systems and sewers that are utilized in the well improved world needs large amount of land, water, energy and high finance for building, maintaining and operating it. The current systems for water, sanitation are very less expensive and so they do not kill insects or pathogens that cause diseases. A company related to this sector has to be chosen and analysis has to be performed on any one of the aspects of the project management like Project Planning, Risk Management and Project Duration Reduction. In the above specified aspect, project planning is the aspect that has been chosen for this project and the company called Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council is chosen for this project. Water Supply Sanitation Collaboration Council (WSSCC) is considered to be the heart of the global movement for developing the sanitation and the hygiene for every people. It is situated in the Geneva which is a place in the Switzerland. It is a United Nations membership organization. They use the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) for implementing the sanitation and good hygiene. The Aspect of the project management that is used in this project is the Project Planning. Project planning strategy that is followed in the WSSCC is taken for analysis. The findings, conclusions and the recommendations for the findings are being addressed in this project. The project planning is a procedural step involved in the project management in which required document is created for ensuring the project completion in a successful way. This project plan explains the execution, controlling and monitoring processes in detail. This procedural step includes 4 steps like setting goals for the project, finding the deliverables of the project, Project schedule creation and the supporting plan creation. Project planning is the process that gets completed only if the project is completed. The complexity of the project is used to determine the length of the stage of the project planning. The project planning that is performed in the Water Supply Sanitation Collaboration Council is analysed in detail. The findings from the analysis is taken and justified. The recommendations to overcome the findings of the planning strategy in WSSCC.
Analysis is the process that makes a detailed investigation on a particular thing, process or an entity. When analysis is performed, it determines some findings and recommendations. In this part of the project, we are going to analyse the Project Planning aspect of project management that is applied in Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council. This part defines the project planning in detail and then how the project planning is applied in the chosen company is also analysed.
Project Planning is considered as the significant process of the project life cycle. The project planning is the phase when the project plans are documented, the requirements and the deliverables of the project are defined and the schedule of the project is created. The plans that are created during this planning phase will be useful for managing the time, quality, risk, changes, cost and the related issues (Techopedia.com, 2017). This is considered to be the most challenging task in the project’s life cycle. The Project planning is done for the following reasons,
The steps that are involved in the project planning are as follows
The goals are the mission that is to be achieved during the project life cycle. The requirements that are specified by the stake holders must be met. There should not be any deviation from the requirements of the user. Working on the requirements of the project and focusing on those to complete a project is very important (Project Smart, 2017).
After the completion of the project, the final product of the project gets ready. The final product that is ready to deliver to the user is called the deliverable of the project. In each and every project, it is very important to define the main deliverable of the project. The main deliverable is then divided into sub deliverables. The sub deliverables are further divided into lowest sub deliverables of the project (Project Smart, 2017).
The schedule of the Project is nothing but the allocating duration for each processes that are involved in the project. The schedule involves the starting and ending time of each process in the project. There is a schedule called milestone schedule which includes the start date and end date of the each and every process of the project (Amohamed, 2015).
Human Resource Plan is used to allot roles and responsibilities for each and every person involved in the project (Amohamed, 2015).
The document is created which tells that who all are having to be informed about the project. The progress of the project in terms of the weekly or monthly status report. The reports have to be submitted to the respective persons involved in the project.
It is very important to guess the risks involved in the project and the risks that can arise in future should also be determined in prior. The risk mitigation plans are to be executed if the risk arises in the middle of the project life cycle (Amohamed, 2015).
WSSCC deliverables are providing the clean environment and sanitation to the women and girls. WSSCC makes many policies to achieve sanitation and hygiene for all, especially for women and the matured girls in their life span. Their main aim to focus on the menstrual hygiene management and make them to have right to sanitation, hygiene and pure drinking water. WSSCC plans to give facilities for the development of the platforms to focus at local as well as national level. They want to deliver a sanitation and clean environment to the adolescent boys, girls, elder persons, disabled persons or to the persons who are excluded socially. Extra household approaches like WASH in schools, in health care facilities and in public spaces. WSCC makes project schedules to provide a sanitation and the pure drinking water to the poor persons (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) External Review 2005-2010, 2011).
The WSSCC has different projects. Project Schedule gets varied for every project. The tenure and schedule of the project gets varied according to the deliverable and the requirements of the project. They can Schedule their projects according to the fund. The GSF is the fund allocated to the organization for the execution of their projects. GSF is known as the Global Sanitation Fund which is issued in global level for the projects that are managed in the Water Supply Collaboration Council. They operate at worldwide level and so they employ more number of persons for their projects. The Schedule of the projects can be extended if the funding is low. The pictorial representation for the project implementation is represented below. The Schedules gets changed according to the provided GSF (Global Sanitation Fund (GSF): Mid Term Evaluation, 2015). They have 2 models in their implementation. Model 1 is an unimproved one which is used to achieve the improved sanitation works and toilet constructions. In the model 2, they do the marketing for sanitation to create awareness among the people. In the first model they do only triggering and hygiene messaging. In the second model, the first step that the organization does is the marketing about the sanitation. Then they do raise the access for finance and then the next step is the creation of demands. The last step that is involved in the second model is the hygiene messaging. Thus they divide their schedules into 2 for model 1 and the schedule is divided into 4 process in the model 2. But the outcomes after executing the two models are same (Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) External Review 2005-2010, 2011).
Supporting plans of the project includes 3 types of plan as explained above in the project planning section. The three different types of plans that are involved in the supporting plans of the project are Human Resource Plan, Communication Plan and Risk Management Plan (Global Sanitation Fund (GSF): Mid Term Evaluation, 2015).
In the human resource plan, they must be sure that how many persons are required for completing their goal in water supply and providing sanitation to the people all over the world. The Organization needs many labours in different designations for achieving their mission in water supply and in sanitation.
Communication Plan is having the communication with other organizations which have a tie-up with WSSCC for executing their projects. They need to communicate with their financial institutions who funds for their projects. They have to produce reports regarding their status of the projects like weekly and monthly reports about their progress (Global Sanitation Fund (GSF): Mid Term Evaluation, 2015).
Risk Management Plan is liable to all types of projects. But considering this type of water supply and sanitation works, the risks are very liable. The risks that can be found are the sanitary workers can get affected because of their work they do daily. The purification of drinking water is an important project in this organization. Some amount of chemicals or additives has to be added for the purification of water. If there is any variation in the amount of additives added to the water, then it may cause serious damage to the health who drink that water.
Conclusion
The organization called Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is taken for the analysis. In this project, I have chosen this sector because this is the significant sector which is making many infections or diseases to the public. This Sector is very important in the life. Water supply and sanitation makes major differences in life. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization, one in three of the population of the world that is 2.3 billion people do not have toilet facilities and 844 million people around the world do not have clean drinking water. The WHO says that 2,89,000 children below 5 years of age die because of the diarrhoea disease due to unclean water and poor sanitation and therefore 800 children per day die or one child for every 2 minutes die due to diarrhoea. The Organization that are under this sector have to use the Risk Management Strategies more effectively to avoid the above mentioned worst situations in the world. The Risk Management plan will include Risk mitigation, Risk avoidance, and Risk Transfer. The effective aspect of project management that can be adopted in the water supply and sanitation companies is the Risk Management Plan. The Project Planning may also give benefits to the organizations of Water Supply and sanitation sector. This may be beneficial for the public to get pure drinking water and high sanitation all over the world. Limitations in the Project Planning strategy is that, it does not concentrate more on the supporting plans as they has only less priority whereas the risk management plans can have less limitations if it is applied. The analysis is performed on the Water Supply Sanitation Collaborative Council and the project planning strategy of that organization is explained in detail. The findings and recommendations from the findings of the WSSCC are discussed.
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