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Evaluation of water supply system – Case study in Naka, Nigeria5.3.4 EquityThere was no great attendance in the WCA meetings of women, and women memberswere few compared to men. It clearly appeared that the Women Representative of theexecutive committee was encountering difficulties in mobilising women, sometimesmissing the opportunity at the different women meetings of the community to spreadinformation. Some interviewed women were aware their husband was member of theWCA, but they did not themselves have much feedback about it.The tribes were not very well integrated as the WCA meetings were held in Tivlanguage, which is usually not heard by the other tribes, used to speaking their ownlanguage and English as well. The involvement of the poorest household had not beenevaluated but it is something to look at in the future.5.3.5 Quality monitoringThere were records of the water quality done on a daily-basis since November 2005when there was power supply in the WTP. The person assigned to do so receivedtraining concerning water treatment and quality monitoring; he did not belong to theWCA executive committee and was not employed by anybody to do the job. He wasoften involved in the activities of water projects (household numbering, interviewerfor questionnaire, help for election, community map drawing...) on a voluntary basisas well as being teacher and student; that explained why there was absence of datasometimes, as he could not come to the WTP.Some of the documents used for testing were not appropriate (printing problemsbothering the measurement reading for the pump-stroke evaluation of turbidity). Assometimes it was done by the caretakers as well, units and place where sample wastaken may vary from one person to another, making the analysis difficult. There wasno method in the WTP to test residual chlorine. Data concerning the tests done by theWater Board not being accessed, there was no information whether there had beenalready a faecal coliform testing.Cranfield University at Silsoe 27 Florianne Bourrigault (2006)
Evaluation of water supply system – Case study in Naka, Nigeria5.3.6 Community (mobilisation, ownership, habits)The community in Naka did not appear as a whole unique community but as severalsmaller communities living in the same town; the distinction could be fromgeographical, religious or tribe differences. In fact, the town itself was divided in 5parts, each of them had a chairman responsible for development and informationspreading. There were several associations in Naka, even several different womenmeetings. There was a low level of caring about the public assets: breakages on thepublic tap were not reported in spite of the breakages of the individual connections;the breakages realised by the motorcyclists proved it also. Ownership feeling willneed to be enhanced to ensure infrastructure is not damaged.The poor level of attendance from members to some of the monthly meetings of theWCA, had different causes: the rainy season is a peak labour period for the farmers,the information may not always be announced in the church, and the time is in themiddle of the working day (first Wednesday of the month, 8 o’clock). It appearedthrough random interviews of the community members that many people were notreally aware of the existence and aim of the WCA, either Tiv people or tribeminorities. Many of them had not participated in the election of the WCA executivecommittee members. It seemed as well that election results had not been veryrepresentative of what the community was expecting. Some of the members seemed tohave been chosen more because of their local notoriety, influence or the fact that theyare “from Naka” rather than their skills to fit their role. There was also a suspicionfeeling among some of the people to become member of the WCA, because as theydid not see water rush, they were not confident in where their money was going.5.3.7 Stakeholders of the projectThe stakeholders of this project were numerous and from different sources: civilsociety, governmental and non-governmental agencies, from local to internationalinfluence scale (cf. figure 4). Their respective office desks were also located indifferent geographic locations, Naka, Makurdi or Abuja, so that all stakeholders weremeeting in Makurdi once a month during the Steering Committee. There wassometimes ambiguity between the different governmental organisations to fix theresponsibilities of each one, especially for the investment in repair and maintenance,Cranfield University at Silsoe 28 Florianne Bourrigault (2006)
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