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Performance Report for FY 2009/10 Case Study 4.10 Supporting CBMS: Amuria District: Source: WEDA Background Obur East village is located in the Eastern part of Acowa Sub County in Amuria District having 90 households with a population of 550 people. It’s one of the villages which have suffered insecurity caused by the Karimojong raids and the wrath of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency in 2003. Following the return of people from IDP camps to their villages in 2005, the community in Obur East village faced a lot of challenges accessing safe water as the nearest safe water source was over 5km walking distance. The only alternative was open wells within their village that were shared with animals. The hygiene and sanitation situation was also very bad as baseline figures indicated 0% sanitation coverage with hygiene promotion almost impossible with no safe water available in the village. According to the LC1 chairperson Obur East village, children below 5 years were dying almost weekly of WASH related diseases with two children dying in a month.Furthermore skin diseases were common among both the young and old. In 2005, Wera Development Agency (WEDA) an NGO which promotes improvement of rural community livelihoods through provision of safe water and promotion of hygiene and sanitation funded by WaterAid Uganda started working together with the community of this village to promote WASH What was done? WEDA was able to engage the community in sharing solutions. During the community dialogue, the community requested for WEDAs intervention especially in the provision of water and promotion of hygiene and sanitation improvements. The community leadership committed to working together with WEDA staff to improve their WASH situation. Sensitisation meetings were then conducted by WEDA on good hygiene and Sanitation practices. This led to community developed action plans with designated roles on how to improve their sanitation status. Water and Sanitation Committees (WSCs) and Hygiene Educators were selected in the community to provide leadership and guidance on WASH issues to the community members. WEDA with funding from WaterAid Uganda provided the community with a borehole to address the need for safe water that the community had been lacking many years. Community members formulated bye-laws to ensure that the borehole drilled would be kept well and maintained to avoid breaking down. The community then started collecting UGX 1000 per household as O&M fees. The idea of revolving the money collected by the community as a loan scheme was suggested as a means to raise funds for O&M among many ideas. With the leadership of the Hygiene Educator, the committee started loaning out money with as little as UGX 45,000 to whoever needed it to be paid back with interest. Failure of payment would attract penalties indicated by the bye-laws endorsed at the Sub County and personally specified by the borrower. The situation now The community of Obur East since 2006 when the borehole was drilled to date has been able to maintain their water source using their own funds for the fourth year running without NGOs in the Ugandan Water and Sanitation Sector | 52
Performance Report for FY 2009/10 breaking down. They are very happy and besides minor repairs and preventive maintenance they use the O&M fees to start up income generating activities. The women brew ‘ajon’ in Teso while the men use the money to start up small businesses like buying and reselling of goats, fish and produce. To date the village is proud to have UGX 1million on their account, one cow, four goats and two cassava gardens in the names of O&M fund. One of the two cassava gardens, goats and cow are: property of the Water and Sanitation Committee. Case Study 4.11 Capacity Building of Management Committees. Source: Fontes Foundation Uganda Since 2007, Fontes Foundation (www.fontes.no) organises yearly water seminars to build capacity of water committees. The last seminar was carried out in August 2009, with more than 50 participants. Water committees including technicians and caretakers or tap-attendants, local leaders and stakeholders from four water projects in Bushenyi (now Rubirizi) and Kanungu District attended the seminar which was organised in Kazinga, a fishing village in Queen Elizabeth National Park. Fontes Foundation implemented the first small piped water system in Queen Elizabeth National Park in 2004, and now has four operational systems. Since the ground water is salty, surface water is treated using simple pressurised filter technology, and water is distributed at public taps in the villages. The systems are managed by elected water committees and the technical operation is done by local technicians trained by Fontes Foundation, who receive remuneration at the end of the month. The water systems have encountered many problems and challenges over the years, and only a small part of them have been technical. The most frequent causes of problems are lack of capacity in the water committees, lack of transparency in the financial management, lack of awareness in the community and government institutions about the benefits of safe water and lack of community engagement. These challenges are best overcome through continuous follow up, mobilisation and capacity building, which is done by Fontes Foundation and its counterpart Fontes Foundation Uganda on a regular basis. One of the most popular events is the water seminar. During the seminar, participants study subjects such as basic accounting methods, roles and 53 | NGOs in the Ugandan Water and Sanitation Sector
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Page 9 and 10: List of Tables Performance Report f
Page 11 and 12: List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Page 73 and 74: 6 Challenges and recommendations 6.
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