Mission: To achieve a more coordinated and integrated approach to implementing WES emergency interventions.

Vision:  To uphold the principles of transparency, accountability, rapid delivery of WES services and complementary.

Rapid/disaster response planning and coordination

• Acting as WES technical resources pool for KFSSG/KFSM and other partners

• Facilitate information dissemination at national and regional level
• Develop strategies for Wes operations
• Support and improve WES in the districts
• Evaluate WES linkages and networks
• Identify priorities for WES co-ordination at national and district level
• Develop and implement resources mobilisation and utilisation strategies
• Production of guidelines from above

 Capacity Building of GOK and national NGOS and CBOS

• Facilitate the conducting of rapid needs assessments with an emphasize on prioritising critical areas and developing protocols for these.

• Document progress of emergency interventions from agencies and districts.

• Organise workshops/seminars for District WESCOORDS

Contingency Planning and Preparedness

• Development of emergency management plans

• Development and implementation of effective monitoring and evaluation tools

• Collection 0f Baseline data on vulnerable districts

Promoting long-term food security

• Capacity building of CBOS and Water Associations on operation, maintenance and management of water supplies

• Development of District based water resources data base for planning

• Drilling and rehabilitation of contingency boreholes

• Promotion of food for work/cash for work programmes related to long-term food security such as construction, de-silting and rehabilitation of dams/pans, rock catchments, underground tanks, infiltration galleries etc as per communities priorities.

Early Warning information collection and analysis

• Conducting assessments of broader perspective, long term issues, including environmental issues (balance with political ones)

• Reviewing and making summaries of assessments done by other agencies for intervention purposes

• Prioritising the interventions in form of short-term, medium term and post emergency terms

Planning and Monitoring Functions

• Develop a comprehensive strategy and annual work plan

• Monitor the implementation of the annual work plan

• Monitor and follow up on key sector issues raised in the WESCOORD and KFSM

• Provide a succinct verbal or written progress brief for the KFSM or KFFSG

• Undertake joint monitoring and evaluation of WES projects