Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Performance Report for FY 2009/10
Fatuma Kagolo, 36 years a member of the advocacy committee and a resident of
Kisenyi III parish says that bringing prepaid water system in Kisenyi III has enabled
her community members have easy access to safe and affordable water for their
hygiene and sanitation needs. “The most community members in Kisenyi III are
Muslims, consequently they need more water to cleanse themselves each time they
visit a toilet or before going for their prayers which is a mandatory requirement by
the Muslim faith. She says, ‘buying a jerry can of water at UGX 20 is like getting free
water, we always have enough to fulfil our religious obligations.”
The communities of Kisenyi III are requesting NWSC to scale up the project of pre
paid water meters to cover all urban poor settlements of the city. It should also open
up a number of community based point centres where community members can
easily buy water tokens for the pre-paid meter
4.13 Contributing to good Governance in the WASH
subsector
CSO have undertaken a number of initiatives to promote good governance in the Water and
Sanitation subsector. Good governance approaches have include, WASH Dialogue in the Districts
of Moyo, Adjumani, Nebbi under a NETWAS, CEFORD and IRC partnership); Community Score
Cards (under a NETWAS project in Town Councils of Wobulenzi, Busia and Rukungiri); Learning
for Practice and Policy in Hygiene and Sanitation in Primary Schools and households (LeaPPS)
in the districts of Kyenjojo, Kamwenge, Arua and Koboko under NETWAS in partnership with
HEWASA, FORUD, and Karitas Arua); Community empowerment (JESE, CIDI). The approaches
facilitate discussions between service providers, local policy makers and the beneficiary
communities to bring mutual understanding among them in search for lasting solutions to WASH
related problems and issues improving service delivery, (see Box 4.2 on Opportunity for CSO-
Public Sector synergy for instituting dialogue and accountability and Case studies 4.13
on WASH Governance; 4.14 on enhancing community governance and Case Study 4.15 on
improving governance of a gravity flow scheme.
Box 4.2 Opportunity for CSO-Public Sector synergy for instituting dialogue
and accountability. Source: National Learning Forum 2010/SAWA
The Uganda Water Integrity Network was founded in September 2009 with support
from WIN-Germany after the integrity workshop held in Uganda in 2009. NETWAS was
selected as the host organisation for the network after a selection process. UWIN is
a coalition of Ugandan based organisations that strive to contribute to WASH good
governance through different activities centred on learning, sharing and capacity
development. National and local government officials, politicians, agencies such as
NWSC, CSOs (incl. NGOs in water, transparency, anti-corruption), NGO associations,
private sector associations, academia, and Development Partners use UWIN as a
platform to share and scale up pockets of success in the country; advocate for good
governance and bridge gaps between the different organizations.
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