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Sustainability Planning and Monitoring

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DO PROJECT RULES PROMOTE SUSTAINABILITY AND EQUITY?households got adequate sanitation first, or werethe only ones to have it (Figure 14).Rural Indonesians prefer household pour-flushlatrines <strong>and</strong> use water for cleansing. Of the 12communities that had sanitation access over 60percent, the average water access was 84 percent,<strong>and</strong> seven of the twelve had achieved 100 percentwater access. The assessment teams reported thatsanitation “took off” in a number of communitiesafter house connections came. They also foundthat Ministry of Health (MOH) programs led tovigorous sanitation programs in several villages.In one, people were trained <strong>and</strong> groups were setup with revolving funds to build latrines. Inanother, sanitation received special attention whenthe village was selected as a MOH model watersupply <strong>and</strong> sanitation community.Five lessons about theprojects for the future1. Project inputs follow projectobjectives.Only WSLIC had a clear sustainability objective.Achieving sustainability in rural water supply <strong>and</strong>sanitation requires attention to five aspects:technical, environmental, financial, institutional(managerial), <strong>and</strong> social. Community-managedsystems need a management organization toensure longer-term sustainability, particularly onein which all categories of users, both women <strong>and</strong>men, have a voice. Yet, only WSLIC <strong>and</strong>, to alesser extent, the RWSS project sought to establishwater management organizations <strong>and</strong> build theircapacity to sustain their water systems.3. Women <strong>and</strong> poor householdshad little voice <strong>and</strong> choice indecisions <strong>and</strong> service control.None of the projects had sufficiently effectivemechanisms to reach out to women <strong>and</strong> poorhouseholds. Getting information is an essentialfirst step if people are to make informed choices<strong>and</strong> decisions, but none of the projects didvery well in spreading information beyond thevillage elite. VIP’s information disseminationefforts worked best, followed by WSLIC’s inSouth Sulawesi. These two groups ofcommunities, not surprisingly, also reported agreater equity in control over decisions abouttheir water systems. As with informationprovision, however, none of the villagesreported that ordinary people were involved indecision making to any extent (Figure 13).None of the projects had an equity objective.Few project inputs - mainly in WSLIC <strong>and</strong> KDP -were directed towards actions to increase thechance that women, poor households, groupsin the project villages, <strong>and</strong> other marginalizedgroups would have a voice <strong>and</strong> choice in theirservices.WSLIC was the only project to involve womenmeaningfully in any project-supported activity.It set out to include women in the WMOs itestablished <strong>and</strong> in the training it offered.Women <strong>and</strong> some poor people were broughtinto management organizations <strong>and</strong> have stayedinvolved over the years. Women were trained<strong>and</strong> continue to use the skills they gained, <strong>and</strong>both poor people <strong>and</strong> women have benefitedfrom the paid <strong>and</strong> unpaid jobs created in WSLICcommunity-managed systems on Java.101

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