ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

WSP PROGRESS SO FAR

March 2014

ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

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Outline

I. Project description II. Guna Dole water supply scheme III. WSP initiation IV. WSP implementation process V. WSP achievement VI. Recommendation

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I. Project description

• Project title : Arsi Negele WaSH Program • Location : Region: Regional state Zone: West Arsi; District/Woreda: Arsi Negele • Implemented by: Welthungerhilfe (GAA) in collaboration with its local partner - BBBC • Funding Agency: European Commission(EC) and Oromia Regional Water Bureau

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• Project Budget: EC (75%) € 2,625,000 ORWB (25%) € 875,000 Total (100%) € 3,500,000

 Program period: 5.5 years (January 2008 - June 2013)

 Beneficiaries: 137,000 people in water supply,(25 Kebeles) 135,000 in improved Sanitation (48 Kebeles) 103,000 in improved environment

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Program Goal and objectives

 Goal: contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development in Arsi Negele Woreda, West of Oromia Regional State

 Specific objectives 1: Solid capacity of the communities and the Woreda sector offices created to initiate, plan, implement, monitor, and sustain water and sanitation projects.

 Specific objectives 2: Reaching the MDG of halving the population with out access to safe water supply and sanitation in the target Woreda in an environmental friendly way.

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Program Approaches

 CLA –community demand driven and led approach is adopted to address community capacity building and to assure sustainability of constructed WaSH scheme;

 CLTS – Community-Led Total Sanitation is adopted to promote hygiene and sanitation practices in the Woreda

 Gender Sensitivity ,HIV/AIDS prevention and other cross cutting Issues.

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Program Results

 Construction of five big water schemes  139,608 people got access to safe water supply

 Hygiene and sanitation promotion  36,536 improved TPLs constructed  182,680 people got access to improved sanitation facilities

 13 VIPLs (8 schools, 3 Markets, 2 cooperatives) constructed  48,713 people got access to sanitation facilities @ public institutes

 Piloting of biogas technology  10 biogas constructed in farmers house.

 Many more on capacity building and Environmental development.

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Guna Dole safe water supply scheme: supplying 96,343 people in 18 KAs

The structure include:

 Two spring sources’ capping (Guna - 10l/s and Debele -30l/s)

 4 reservoirs(50,100,200 and 300m3 capacity)

 About 156kms of pipe line  75kms of main pipe line  85kms of secondary and tertiary pipe line

 62 Water Kiosks and 5 cattle troughs

 2 board offices(Main and technical offices)

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Scheme Management issues  17 WaSHCOs (153 members)  One scheme level board(34 General assembly members and 9 executive scheme management board members)  Staffs:- 83 staffs (5 technical,13 guards and 60 Was)  About 400 private customers,3 health stations, 2 langano area lodges, different offices and religious centers.  Has a cumulative amount of more than 2mill.ETB  Audit was conducted by concerned government office and currently the scheme board has promoted to “Rural safe water supply service”

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How WSP approach was initiated in ANWP

 Microbial analysis of drinking water between Guna-Dole water supply scheme and point of use at household level done in Sept 2011.

 The finding revealed that the water at the source was of sound quality. However, 86% of the water samples taken from drinking cup was positive for fecal coliform bacteria.

 As a result of the alarming finding, discussion was held with WHO and WSP was recommended as a tool to address the issue. ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

 WSP is a plan to ensure the safety of drinking water through the use of a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that encompasses all steps in water supply from catchment to consumer.

 To implement WSP, TOT has been given to relevant staffs from WHH supported programs by joint facilitation of WHH and WHO-Ethiopia.

 Finally, ANWP-GD SWSS was selected to be a pilot project to start the approach-WSP

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1.Map the water supply system(eg.make a flow diagram)

5.Review the WSP (Develop 2.Identify the hazards and supportive processes- assess the risks(eg.through eg.training) agreed ranking system)

WSP Cycle

4.Review adequacy of preventive control measure(eg.through 3. Implement the needed validation,operational monitoring, improvement (eg. Following a and end point testing) prioritized schedule) ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

The process and achievements so far in ANWP- GDSWSS  Right after the TOT, the following were conducted: 1st. All the modules and supportive documents were translated in to local language (Oromiffa) . 2nd.Training started from Woreda level sector office heads (WWT) on: 1.Current situation in the scheme 2. How to go through these problems using WSP and its approach. 3rd. Training continued to GD SWSS management board members 4th. With the facilitation of the program staffs, WWT and GD SWSS management board members met and select the GD SWSS WSP team members from different sectors and backgrounds. The team members are as follows: ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

SN Organization Responsibility Role in the team Address 1 WHO Environmental health Secretary supervisor-Dole area AN-WHO 2 GHC Lab technician Member 3 Model HEW Shoba Member 4 ANWMERO ANWMERO Expert V.Ch.P 5 AN-Ed.O Degaga HS Biology teacher Member 6 Goljota HS Chemistry teacher Member 7 AN-ARDO AN ARDO DA-NRM-Shoba Member 8 AN ARDO DA-Plant sciense-Argeda Member 9 GD-SWSS 2 plumbers Member Board

10 GD-SWSS Ch.P Member

Board GD-SWSS

11 GD-SWSS Manager Ch.P Board

12 K level Ch.P K level Ch.P 17 K level ch.p Members Total 28 ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

The team visiting and forwarding the solution on what they observed on the scheme ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

WSP team identifying the possible risks

Un hygienic external Unhygienic and Unhygienic interior Unhygienic way of view of the Jerry can broken Jerry can view of the Jerry closing the Jerry can can ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

The team discussing with the local community on the observed risks ETH-1070 ARSI NEGELE WASH PROGRAME

What has been achieved so far (In two months period)?

 54/62 water kiosks fenced by the community

 All the pipe line trenches back filled

 The observed leakage on the spring box maintained

 Total scheme disinfection implemented

 Significant positive changes observed in and around the WKs

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Challenges faced:  Most of the program staffs were engaged on already planned program activities  Insufficient attention given to WSP piloting

 The WSP team members were very busy as the implementation period was during the rainy season that most of them were engaged in farm activities  Members were not fully committed

 Besides the above reasons, the approach needs more budget than it was anticipated-all the identified risks need additional investment to be addressed  Lack of fund to implement actions

 The approach it self need continuous follow up and monitoring activities to evaluate its progress  Limited time for piloting

 As the approach is new even for the country, it needs a considerable time to adopt to the local context

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Recommendation  Incremental water quality improvements can be achieved in any given water scheme through the implementation of WSP approach  recommended to scale it up.

 It is highly recommended to include most available people in the WSP team to assure continuing commitment.

 Extending the focus of the WSP approach to the “point of use” as major problems are associated with post collection contamination.

 Get sufficient time, committed WSP team and some budget to successfully implement WSP approach.

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