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Performance Report for FY 2009/10 • The communities know the situations of their environment and the relevance of protecting the river. • Law enforcement in the water and environment sector is leading to degradation of natural resources. It is only through sustainable management of the water resource that sustainable WASH services can be provided. 5.1.2 Undertaking No. 7: Sanitation Finalise the guidelines for the conditional grant on sanitation and continue with enforcement of sanitation ordinances and bye-laws (2009/10), and allocate and disburse funds for the sanitation grant to the Local Governments (2010/11). NGOs are not mandated to enforce ordinances and bye-laws. However they have continued to link with community management structures (such as Water and Sanitation Committees, and Village Health Committees), Sanitation and Hygiene promotion structures (such as Community Health Workers), and the local authorities usually at village (LC 1) and Subcounty (LC III) levels to generate and enforce ordinances and by-laws. A number of campaigns have been conducted to get political leaders to support sanitation. 5.1.3 Undertaking No. 8: Rural water supply A revitalized Community Based Maintenance System (CBMS) leading to an improved functionality rate of water points in 50% of the districts by at least 3 percentage points by improving the management at community level and at the district level through; • Review and update the O&M Framework, & finalize the up-date of the MIS with respect to functionality ( 2009/10) • Implementation of the revised O&M framework ( 2010/11) CSOs have continued to undertake various activities towards increased functionality of rural water sources. The activities include; community mobilisation meetings; formation, training and re-training of Water Source Committees, facilitating development and endorsement by higher authorities of water source bye-laws. The CSOs have also carried out; training and equipping Hand pump Mechanics and; facilitated the formation of Handpump Mechanics’ Associations. However lack of government support, poverty among communities, and access to spare parts, remain huge challenges to functionality of rural water sources. NGOs in the Ugandan Water and Sanitation Sector | 72
6 Challenges and recommendations 6.1 Introduction Performance Report for FY 2009/10 In the course of implementing their programmes and projects, NGOs and CBOs meet a number of challenges. Some are unique to particular organisations (like high staff turn-over forexample) while others cut across the board within the sub-sector or within a particular region. This chapter presents major challenges that, in some cases, need a review of the existing related policy provision. Also presented in the chapter are some key lessons learnt and recommendations. 6.2 Challenges A number of challenges have either been met or observed during the FY 2009/10. 6.2.1 Inadequate household income and the CBMS In Northern Uganda in particular and other areas of country in general, the family income is still very low for the majority of Ugandan families. This raises the challenges for CBMS for rural water sources that demands that communities make contribution to buy spares parts, to replace broken or worn-off parts as well as pay the HPM who conducts repairs. Although there is no empirical data to back up the argument, field reports indicate that lack of ability to pay compromises the effectiveness of the CBMS with the result that functionality of developed water supply sources is still below acceptable levels. The challenge of lack of ability to pay is compounded by the reduction in the drive to offer voluntary work (See Box 6.1 on sustainability issues). For rural piped water systems, a cost tracking study indicated that although the communities may meet the cost of operating the systems, additional cost are necessary to covers replacements and renovation that are necessary after a few years of operation, and that are often beyond the capacity of the community and to cover the costs related to direct support as in follow up visits, community mobilisation, capacity building of committees and water seminars/training of management committees (see Case Study 6.1 Costs tracking of rural water projects) 6.2.2 Supply chain for construction equipment and materials Accessing construction equipment and materials poses a challenge while delivering WASH services especially under the self-supply initiative. In Bugiri for example, communities would wish to construct rainwater tanks but they are hampered by lack of basic construction materials like gutters that can only be accessed from relatively large towns. As is the case in stocking of the spare parts for handpumps, business entrepreneurs are hesitant to stock materials that are likely to stay in stock for a long time. The challenge is creating enough demand for such materials and to interest businesses to stock the relevant materials. An associated challenge is accessing materials to set up demonstrations as a way of generating demand for the technology uptake. 73 | NGOs in the Ugandan Water and Sanitation Sector
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