A programme for Promoting Rainwater Harvesting in the Caribbean

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Caribbean Rainwater Harvesting Programme4.3.5. Programme Administration, Monitoring and Evaluation (nationallevel)The Regional Programme assumes that Grenada will continue as the pilot country withrespect to follow-on activities identified in the National Rainwater Harvesting Programme forGrenada (CEHI/UNEP, 2006). In the national pilot programme it was proposed thatprogramme administration capacity be built into the Grenada Ministry of Health andEnvironment as the lead agency responsible for execution of the programme. This wasconsidered necessary given the human and financial resource constraints in that agency. ForGrenada it was proposed that a Programme Management Unit be staffed by two personnel;one at a senor level with public education/outreach and project management skills, and theother at an administrative assistant level with skill in financial management. The basic termsof reference for the Unit included all services and supplies procurements, generaladministration of the Programme to include reporting, financial management andmonitoring. Similar arrangements as described above may be applied to other countries thatlack dedicated resources to perform this role.4.3.5.1. Indicative costsActivity expenditure itemsEstimatedcost US$Salaries and allowances(in-country coordinators and office support)150,000Officer equipment and supplies 30,000Communications and utilities 20,000Technical backstopping 150,000Programme evaluation 75,0004.4. Regional level actionsTotal (over a four year period) 425,000The Regional Programme will need to be coordinated within the framework of the GlobalRainwater Harvesting Partnership. A lead institutional node within the Caribbean to drivethe programme is to be identified in consultation with national and regional agencies.Proposed regional partners will include inter-alia, the Caribbean Community Centre forClimate Change (CCCCC), the Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C) and theCaribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA). Resources will need to be sourced tostrengthen capacity of the lead and partner agencies to assist in execution of the regionalelements.Out of a regional strategic planning workshop held in Tortola in March 2006 a series of keyactions that will need to be pursued at the regional level were identified. These are as follows:32
Caribbean Rainwater Harvesting Programme• Formal ratification and endorsement of a lead regional agency for the promotion ofthe regional RWH strategy. This will need to be done in consultation with stakeholderagencies. The agency will have as primary responsibility, provision of technical supportand act as an information hub.• Establish partnership arrangements with relevant Caribbean agencies to strengthenoutreach and advocacy efforts and assist with resource mobilization in execution ofvarious components of the regional strategy;• Development of a website for the capture and dissemination of best practices in RWHas an important tool. This will be linked to national and international nodes concernedwith water resources management. Maintenance of a dedicated website could befacilitated through contributions by manufacturers of supplies and equipment used forRWH systems;• Development of a toolkit by the GWP to be included as an additional educationalresource. This toolkit, in addition to the Handbook developed under the UNEP/CEHIRWH pilot project may be used as guidance in the design of RWH systems. TheHandbook is a Caribbean version of the UNEP/OAS (1997) Water AugmentationHandbook;• Promotion of the RWH initiative through integration with the irrigation supportcomponents of the regional FAO School Feeding and School Gardening programmes;• Collaboration and coordination with the Government Information Services of therespective territories to assist with the national broadcast of the public awarenessprogrammes developed under the CEHI/UNEP RWH pilot project;• Coordination of monitoring of the level of success of national RWH programmes;• Negotiate with the Caribbean Basin Water Management Programme (CBWMP) toinclude RWH as a component of their certification programme;• Build capacity within relevant Caribbean agencies and develop a skills bank toprovide technical assistance in RWH to territories;• Development of model RWH applications for the Caribbean based on research anddevelopment.It is proposed that independent evaluations of the Programme be conducted periodically toassess success of the programme and contribute to recommendations in an adaptive learningprocess. A pre-programme evaluation should establish the baseline (in conjunction with theassessment conducted under the CEHI/UNEP RWH pilot project) to be followed by a mid-termand post-programme evaluation. The agency with lead responsibility for the programmeshould be responsible for management of the evaluation process.33
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