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6.2. CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROJECT TO THE OBJECTIVES OF THE NATIONAL
WATER AND SANITATION POLICY
The present approach aligns itself with the national strategy : low cost solutions of water
supply to meet the pressing needs of communities, community managed water and sanitation
approach, implication of the local authorities, arrangements with other actors to avoid
overlapping...
Unfortunately in the beginning pumps were used that were not approved by the national
policy ; this poses a problem concerning the availability of spare parts.
The project shows decisive ambitions to influence the policy at district level once the
performance has been improved. A clear indication in this respect can be derived from the
project’s participatory approach and from the good linkage between water facilities
improvement, sanitation and hygiene education.
Until now no strategy has been developed to elaborate this advocacy and the collaboration
with other actors, except for Water Aid, is limited to a mere pragmatic exchange of some data
and a number of equipment or services.
Neither are the users committees integrated in the WATSAN committees who exist
theoretically in each subcounty and county. These are Water and Sanitation committees
installed under the impulse of the DWO and containing representatives of all water
committees. Together they have access to a number of services such as training and assistance
and access to spare parts and technical support. It was impossible for this evaluation mission
to check upon the functionality of these WATSAN committees. But even if they were not
quite functional it is important for the SOCADIDO staff to guide the committees towards
them and if necessary to support and to strengthen the WATSAN committees in their own
target counties.
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