<font size="3" color="#454545">'''Institutional sustainability''' in the WASH sector means that WASH systems, institutions, policies and procedures at the local level are functional and meet the demand of users of WASH services. Households and other WASH service users, authorities and service providers at the local and national level are clear on their own roles, tasks and responsibilities, are capable of fulfilling these roles effectively and are transparent to each other. WASH stakeholders work together in the WASH chain through a multi-stakeholder approach.</font>
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The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre’s [http://www.waterservicesthatlast.org/ Triple-S] initiative has identified a set of three pillars for achieving sustainable rural water services at scale (which are also applicable to the wider sustainable WASH sector):
* Adoption of a [http://www.waterservicesthatlast.org/resources/concepts_tools/service_delivery_approach service delivery approach]
* Creation of capacity for [[Learning & Adaptive Management | learning and adaptive management]]
* Ensuring [[Policy & Advocacy (Harmonisaton & Coordination)|harmonisation and alignment]] at national level
Under these three pillars, a set of principles has been developed that needs to be in place for sustainable service delivery. This column of the Sustainability Portal includes the Triple-S principles/building blocks, covering five crucial institutional levels: consumer, water service provider, water service authority, national, international.
===Vision===
This Institutional Sustainability Introduction page was in part from the document: [http://www.washalliance.nl/wp-content/blogs.dir/2/files/sites/2/2013/06/fiets_sustainability_approach_color.pdf FIETS sustainability approach] by the Dutch WASH Alliance.
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