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SSHD Narrative 1Stinterim 300408 April 30, 2008 First Interim Report October 2007 – March 2008 „Safe Sanitation Health and Dignity“ Ecological sanitation and waste-(water) management in rural areas of Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania To From BSWC Medium FVC Odessa & Garla Ukraine Sanitas Mare Romania Project Overview 3 countries Project Name Safe Sanitation Health and Dignity File nr. EA/2007/04 Convention signed on September 20, 2007 Project duration 3 years: October 2008 – September 2010 Regions of Ukraine : Kiev, Odessa, Sebastopol, Yaremche, Nyzhin, Implementation Ternopil, Nova-Kakhova, Artemisk, Feodosia Bulgaria : Sofia, Pleven and Stara Zagora Counties Romania : Teleorman, Mehedinti counties Population reached Small Rural Communities with very poor living conditions. Total number of beneficiaries: 70. 000 citizens Total Budget Euro 758.300 (300.000 from Fondation Ensemble) Payments made at Euro 50.000 date from F. Ensemble Structure: Implementing organisation: Name organisation Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) Address Utrecht Telephone/ fax + 31 30 23 10 300 / +31 30 23 40 878 E-mail [email protected] Anne Barre, WECF France (Overall Coordinator) Name Contacts: Olga Plekhanova (National Coordinator Ukraine) Bistra Mihailkova (National Coordinator Bulgaria) Olivia Radu (National Coordinator Romania) Local partner organisations: Ukrainian project partners : Ukrainian National Environmental NGO Mama-86 : Central Office Kyiv and 9 regional branches: MAMA-86 Kyiv, MAMA-86-Artemivsk, MAMA-86-Feodosia, MAMA-86-Mykolajv, MAMA-86-Nizhyn, MAMA- 86-Nova-Kahovka, MAMA-86- Sevastopol, MAMA-86-Ternopil and MAMA-86-Yaremche. Black See Women’s Club : Odessa region Bulgarian partner : Earth Forever Foundation (Stara Zagora and Pleven + supported by WECF Coordinator Bistra Mihailova for Pravets municipality) Romanian project partners : Euro Teleorman: Teleorman County Medium & Sanitas: Ialomita County Femei FVC + local authorities More details on Country-specific Project Overviews Executive Summary: The project Safe Sanitation Health and Dignity (SSHD) started “full speed” in Ukraine in October 2007: Start up meetings were organised by the partners and the preparation for the construction of 4 school toilets and 8 household toilets were immediately started, so that constructions are now underway in all regions and should be completed by the fall of 2008. In parallel, capacity building activities: training local builders are being conducted. Local authorities are actively involved in the project at different levels. In Bulgaria and Romania, however, the cancellation of the expected co- funding for the project resulted in important delays, as WECF and partner resources were used for fundraising. Thanks to the success of the fundraising activities, project start up could finally be organised in both countries from March 2008 onwards. A very strong cooperation with municipalities in Bulgaria, where official press conferences with public signing of MoUs helped bring much publicity for the project (local and national coverage) A field trip of our water expert Margriet Samwell, together with WECF coordinator for Romania, Olivia Radu, enabled the effective start of activities with the partners: trainings and workshops are in planning for the month of July, whereby pilot household toilets will be constructed. Preparations are also underway in Romania for building one of the 5 planned school toilets in the fall. All planned activities for the next period are detailed under the individual country reports. Project Overview Ukraine Safe Sanitation, Health and Dignity Project Name File nr. EA/2005/12 Project duration 3 years: October 2008 – September 2010 Population reached Small Rural Communities with very poor living conditions: total number reached: 50 000 citizens Total Budget Euro 250.000 (100.000 from FE) Payments made at date Euro 50.000 From Fondation Ensemble Name organisation Mama86 Kiev Address 4 Yangel Academician Str., apt.126, 11th floor Kyiv 03057, Ukraine Phone/ Fax + 38 044 456 1338; + 38 044 453 4796 (fax) e-mail [email protected] Convention signed on 30 November 2007 Region of implementation 9 regions: city Kyiv and Kyivska oblast, Artemivskyi rayon of Donetska oblast, cite Feodosia of Crimea, Mykolajvska oblast, Nizhynskyi rayon of Chernigivska oblast, Nova-Kahovskyi rayon Khersonska oblast, city Sebastopol, Ternopilska oblast and Yaremchanskyi rayon Ivano- Frankivska oblast Beneficiary population (list 200 pupils + 60 households the villages) Instalments paid to date 10 965,- Euro Name of coordinator Anna Tsvetkova Name organisation Black Sea Women’s Club Odessa 20, Ekateryninskaya str., 65102, Odessa Address Phone/ Fax +380 67 4411736; +380 48 7584123 e-mail [email protected] Convention signed on 16 th of October Region of implementation County Odessa Beneficiary population (list Stepanovka, Sherbanka, Limanskoe the villages) Instalments paid to date 29035,- euro Name of coordinator Svitlana Slesarenok Give details on contributing local authorities The support of local authorities in Ukraine is mostly needed for school toilet construction. In Odessa region, our partner BSWC is working very intensive to lobby for ecosan solutions and involve official authorities into the project. (See also Results Overview for Capacity Building below). More than 20 high level officials, including the Head of executive body (the Razdelnaya district State Administration) and Head of legislative body (the Razdelnaya district Council) of Razdelnaya district are involved in the project implementation. The Village Councils in Stepovoe and Scherbanka (Odessa regions) took important decisions about land allocation for toilets. The authorities of Nyzhyn are also supporting the project. It is not a financial contribution, but mostly administrative support for getting documents and permits needed for legalization of school toilet construction, what is very complicated procedure. In Nova-Kahovka, the school administration is intending to help with some in-kind labour at the building stage. Narrative Report Ukraine 1. Project Objectives for the reporting period Implementation: • Building materials market research at local level • Preparation activities for building of 12 household toilets (signing contracts with local stakeholders, purchasing building materials) • Design of 2 school toilets in Nyzhyn and Nova Kakhovka: organising of visits of the WECF’s ecosan expert to Nizhyn and Nova-Kahovka. Developing of technical documentation by Ukrainian engineers • Start of construction of 2 school toilets in Stepovoe and Shcherbanka (Odessa Region) • Creating the Contacts with all stakeholders and responsible authorities for school toilets Capacity building: • National and several local trainings on ecosan toilet building • Lobbying of Ecosan solutions specially on regional and national level Up-Scaling: • Collecting information for baseline studies Coordination: • Project set up coordination meetings, WECF/MAMA-86 and MAMA-86 Central office/regions • Regional and local start up meetings, inc. project presentation to stakeholders 2. Results achieved compared to objectives Coordination: 3 project setup meetings took place: Two set up meetings were organized by Mama-86 Kyiv: The first startup meeting took place November 7, 2007 in Kyiv. 3 members of WECF and 11 members of MAMA-86 took part in the meeting. The most important topics of the discussion were: recall of project objectives / project detail planning and project management set-up. Start Up Meetings in Kyiv (November, February 2008) The second coordination meeting took place February 7-8, 2008 in Kyiv (11 participants). Resources and options for project management and implementation were discussed by MAMA- 86 staff. The plans on implementation of the pilots were confirmed by 8 regions. The ninth regional coordinator - Ternopil – could not attend both coordination meetings but confirmed participation at the project and planning to build 3 households toilets (the construction will start after October 2008). Contracts were signed between Kyiv central office and MAMA-86 local offices. It was decided that in the first period 6 regions would start preparing for the construction of household dry toilets: in Kyiv, Artemivsk, Nizhyn, Feodosia, Mykolaiiv and Yaremche. Nizhyn and Nova Kahovka will work on construction of school toilets. One set-up meeting was organized by BSWC in Odessa The start up meeting conducted by BSWC took place in the main hall of Razdelnaya district authority on the 22 nd of October and was lead together by the head of Razdelnaya district state administration (main executive body) Felix Segal and leader of BSWC Svitlana Slesarenok • Regional / local setup meetings and project presentation to stakeholders The set up meetings with involvement of local authorities, stakeholders and communities took place in 9 regions in the period from October 2007 till March 2008. In some regions (Yaremche, Artemivsk, Kiyv) follow-up meetings were organized with individual families and householders in the project villages • Presentation of the SSHD Project at International Conferences The SSHD Project was presented by Mama-86 at the Water Conference organized by Ukrainian State Committee on Water Management on 20 th of March 2008 with participation of the representatives of all ministries/departments, responsible of water sector development, river basins bodies, science, NGOs and other stakeholders Capacity building: • National/local training on individual outdoor ecosan toilet building In the first period of SSHD project Mama-86
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