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WASH Self-Supply Sierra Leone Investing in household ownership and market-systems for sustainable...
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1 WASH Self-Supply Sierra Leone Investing in household ownership and market-systems for sustainable water supply and sanitation Lahai Ensah Bunduka National Project Coordinator WASH self-supply, Sierra Leone
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WASH Self-Supply Sierra LeoneInvesting in household ownership and market-systems
for sustainable water supply and sanitation
Lahai Ensah BundukaNational Project CoordinatorWASH self-supply, Sierra Leone
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Contents
Rationale
Principles:Self-Supply, Added Value, Do- it-Yourself
Intervention Approach
Monitoring System:market-based and household centered
Challenges and Lessons Learned
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Rationale
Poor water supply services28.000 public water points mapped in Sierra Leone:40% recorded to provide insufficient water31% impaired and 17% broken
High disease burdenAugust 2012 Sierra Leone hosted one of the most dreadful cholera incidence worldwide- national cumulative figures of 13,135 cases with 226 deaths
Weak capacity and poorly funded councils and MDAS to do effective monitoring and evaluation
Need for user involvement in planning and execution of monitoring approaches
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Water Self-Supply Ladder
Source-Sally Sutton RWSN
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Added-Value-Concept
Manual pumping of water
Kitchen
Latrine
Farm-irrigation
Shower room
Storage tanks
Rain water harvesting
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Do-it-Your-Self = Sustainability
Construction of pumps Construction of RWH gutters
Construction of toilet seats
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Intervention Approach
Service DeliveryUser at the heart of the approach to ensure quality service delivery and sustainability
EmpowermentThe user is introduced to a self -supply scheme through a short training that empowers him/ her to design an individual system which meets his/her preferences using readily available low cost materials
Involvement of Private SectorSupported by a network of area based entrepreneurs (private sector), the user will be enabled to install his/her own system and to conduct necessary repairs largely unassisted after a couple of practices
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Monitoring System
PARTICIPATORY MONITORING 100%
Market-based Monitoring
Innovative Technologies
Strengthen Supply Side
Promotion/ Marketing/ Quality Control
Household-centered Monitoring
Do it Yourself
Added-Value Concept
Household Ownership
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Monitoring Tools
User design and ownership at
household level
Market driven
WASH Cooperative
(service provider)
• Self appraisal check list• Everyday comfort• exchange visits and
experience sharing
• Product display/ promotion • Branding, labels, cost
quotation and effectiveness• Market mechanism
• Quality control guidelines • Water quality testing• Field visit-service
provider/user• Learning/ Meetings
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User and Market Monitoring
Sustainable WASH Service Delivery
Market Driven
User Designed
User Investment
User Managed
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Challenges of user-based monitoring system
High time investment in planning and execution
Low capacity of users to effectively learn system design and adopt tools may slow down the process
Culture of donor dependency in solving WASH problems
Unclear policy, standards and regulations
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Lessons Learnt
Monitoring and evaluation succeeds best where user participation is highest
Monitoring misunderstood as policing-may not help the process
Monitoring information from community/household-based approaches are not generally considered legitimate and therefore lack credence
Right policy frame work is crucial for proper implemetation of household/market based monitoring
