Performance Report for FY 2009/10 - UWASNET

Performance Report for FY 2009/10
Even if communities are able to cover operation and maintenance costs, they still
need continuous training, follow up and motivation in order to keep the financial
management sound and transparent. In addition, they need financial support to cover
Capital Maintenance Expenditure (CapManEx).
The cost-tracking exercise shows that even though the communities are able to cover
operation and maintenance costs, they still need continuous support in form of
capacity building (ExpDS) and financial means (CapManEx) in order for the systems
to keep running. On average, each of the three projects needed 32 million UGX
in the financial year 2009-10 for Capital Maintenance Expenditure (CapManEx) and
Expenditure on Direct Support (ExpDS). In the case of Fontes Foundation, the NGO
is taking over most of these costs, with small contributions from the community,
local government and other partners. However, in most rural water systems there
are no support mechanisms to cover these costs. This should be taken into account
when considering if the community management model is the most efficient way of
managing rural water supplies, or if there are more cost-effective alternatives through
government or the private sector. At the same time, the resources spent on mobilising
and training community members also have a number of positive side-effects on
development, health and community organisation. Only when these externalities
are fully considered and included in the cost-benefit analysis, the real effectiveness
of community management can be understood. The complete results of the costtracking
study will be presented at a Symposium in the Hague, the Netherlands, in
November 2010.
Case Study 6.2
Targeting the vulnerable. Source VAD
Background
‘Your Donation brings good life to my family’. Ms Nantulo Deborah of Mulume village,
Kanzize parish in Masuliita Sub county is certainly in good moods as she narrates the
story to one of the VAD project staff. Ms Nantulo aged 87 is one of the elderly women
in Mulume village of Masuliita Subcounty who were supported by VAD with funds from
Aidlink Ireland to acquire a water jar and an improved pit latrine in her home.
Deborah tells her story
“I am such an elderly person who had lost hope of living in a good health environment
and have access to clean safe water at my door step”. She begins, “I stay with nine
grand children; five girls and four boys.
“Out of the nine grand children, five are orphans whose parents died of HIV/AIDS
many years back. I am such a helpless person with a poor un-safe latrine. It is not
my pride at all to have such a poor latrine and to be in a poor sanitation situation but
I have nothing to do because my children died long ago and left me with no help at
all”.
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