Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Performance Report for FY 2009/10
HIV/AIDS
mainstreaming
• HIV/AIDS sensitization
workshops
• Facilitate voluntary
HIV/AIDS counselling
and testing
• Conduct training
on HIV/AIDS
mainstreaming.
• Trained community
volunteers to
spearhead the
campaign on the
usefulness of staying
in a clean environment
as one way
supplementing on the
effectiveness of ARVs
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• Reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS
(see Case Study 4.20).
• Developed group guideline
on taking affirmative action
for the affected and infected,
and sensitising members on
prevention and stigmatization.
• Improved competency in HIV/
AIDS mainstreaming.
• A comprehensive set of
guidelines, toolkit and training
resources for trainers, homebased
care providers and
programmers were developed
to support WASH integration
in HIV/AIDS home-based care
programming.
Box 4.4: IWRM; spring protection in Karamoja region: Source IICD
Protecting a spring is a very delicate work. For ages springs have watered wild life,
domestic animals, and human beings. Free access to springs makes the difference
between life and death, especially in arid environments and in extremely dry seasons.
Complete diversion of spring water to taps and far from the original place (like is the
case in gravity flow schemes) may create sufferance to animals and human beings
who depend on that spring.
During spring construction, the following must be taken into consideration.
• Since time immemorial, herdsmen, water their animals freely to the spring.
Diverting its water to taps in a far village could cause immediate damage to
everybody concerned and in extreme case may even create conflict.
• Seasonally herdsmen meet near springs not only to water their animals but even
for social and cultural reasons. They cannot do it around the taps in a strange
village: this can create conflict between cultivators and herdsmen.
• In case of unscrupulous assessment of existing social dynamics,, planners can
create conflict among villages, diverting water to one and neglecting the others.
• Denial of access to water can create stress and death to wildlife that for ages,
have relied on that source of water.
Action points
If possible shift to a protected hand dug well, tapping from the same aquifer and
do not touch the spring. If not, plan suitable cattle troughs and human distribution
outlets near the spring if you cannot shift to solutions other than capping and diverting
the spring. Protect the environment upstream of springs and wells to increase their
permanence and yield.
Plan well for wildlife, herdsmen and humans bearing in mind the needs and interests
of each category.