Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Performance Report for FY 2009/10
There is need to re-define the concept of populations served and to harmonise reporting in this
regard.
There are a number of result areas from improving access to safe water. Women and children
from targeted homes spend less time fetching water. More time is spent on other productive
work. Accidents, abductions, rape and other associated dangers of going to fetching water
from long distances are minimised. Reports from beneficiaries indicate a reduction of
diarrheal diseases and other water and hygiene related infections. At household level, there
was an improvement in domestic relations especially between spouses. Availability of water
ensured a reduction in domestic conflicts that had their genesis in water scarcity. Development
of new water sources has facilitated resettlement in areas where households have moved from
IDP camps back to villages (see Case Study 4.1)
Case Study 4.1
New borehole contributes to resettlement in Apeleun Village; Katakwi:
Source LWF
“Most of the people
chose to stay back in
the camp instead of
returning home due
to the difficulty in
accessing water for the
construction of huts”.
Says Aciila David, a
37 year old resident
of Apeleun village,
Katakwi District. He
is married to Among
Betty 30, and has two
daughters; Amongin
Joyce 12 and Among
Betty 03.
“I lived in Olupe camp for 15 years due to the insurgency caused by armed Karimojong
warriors. When relative calm returned, I hesitated returning home due to lack of
a reliable water source. The difficulties of having no land to plough and frequent
quarrels with neighbours forced me home in 2009. Life was not easy! We had to walk
back to the camp for water, and other neighbouring villages of Anyipa and Adipala
which are about 3kms away. Garden work in most cases was interrupted when the
drinking water that we carried to the gardens got finished. We would stop digging and
go back home. Bathing and cooking depended on water from an unprotected spring.
Diarrhoea was common in the village.”
“When Lutheran World Federation (LWF) identified and drilled a bore hole in my
village, life changed for the better and within one week, I was able to put up a
latrine after making the required bricks within just a day using water from the newly
drilled borehole. Other 25 households have permanently returned to the village from
the camp making a total of 35 households now. We are no longer isolated.” David
declares.
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