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- On the health care level there is probably an important impact which can still be enhanced
by improving the spring protection techniques and by paying more attention to the
protection of the direct catchment area of the spring or the borehole. Water analyses have
shown that the springs and boreholes following the new criteria deliver a reasonable water
quality.
- Also the hygiene and sanitation component may have an important impact on health.
However a quantitative monitoring system has not been developed for this.
- On the level of community building, the project, thanks to its demand driven approach at
the implementation of the water point, has certainly contributed to the growing trust of the
population in their own capacities. On the other hand the committees and the communities
have to be more strengthened in order to enable them to effectively take up this
responsibility in the long term.
- Women take up important roles in many water committees, and the attention and the value
the project attributes to typically female tasks, such as fetching water and hygiene,
valorises her more in the community.
Viability
- Technically the water points are considered viable, except for the ten committees who
received an Afridev or Tara pump (for which no spare parts can be found locally). In the
other places the technical knowledge, tools and spare parts are available, partly at the level
of the community itself, partly at the level of the county or the district.
- On the organisational level little problems are to be expected with the committees
managing the protected springs. For the committees with a pump the management is much
more complex because here money has to be saved for maintenance and replacement of
the pump. This suggests better skills in financial management, other communication
techniques with the users, more negotiation capacities with regard to external service
providers (technicians, supplier of parts…), etc. Because no clear plan for assisting these
committees exists, their viability is not ensured today.
- Financially the protected springs pose no problem on the condition that the works have
been well executed. Maintenance here is more a case of motivation and labour and not of
available finances. For the wells with the hand pumps there is at present no committee that
can follow the depreciation of the pump. In theory 200 shilling per month and per family
are asked, but most committees possess only 5 to 30.000 shilling after one to one and a
half-year working. Financial problems are to be expected here after 3 to 4 years.
8.2. RECOMMENDATIONS
8.2.1. Recommendations for the project staff
♦ Further improve the spring protection technology : captate the spring eyes still deeper than
today and protect a bigger part of the direct catchment area. An exchange visit to other
organisations in the region using this “excavation technology” is recommended so that the
CMWS staff can see with their own eyes how the job can be done and to what results it
leads.
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