United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-HABITAT LAKE VICTORIA REGION WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAMME APPRAISAL REPORT BUNDA TOWN November 2008 UN-HABITAT – LVWATSAN Bunda Appraisal Report TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 BUNDA TOWN PROFILE............................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 BUNDA DISTRICT ........................................................................................................................................ 1 1.2 BUNDA TOWN COUNCIL.............................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 BUNDA URBAN WATER SUPPLY ................................................................................................................. 1 1.4 POPULATION ............................................................................................................................................... 2 1.5 VULNERABLE GROUPS................................................................................................................................2 2 RESULTS OF THE URBAN INEQUITY SURVEY IN BUNDA................................................................. 3 2.1 URBAN INEQUITY SURVEY (UIS)................................................................................................................ 3 2.2 PRESENTATION OF THE UIS SURVEY, AVAILABILITY OF RESULTS FOR BUNDA .......................................... 3 2.3 SOME OF THE UIS RESULTS HIGHLIGHTED ................................................................................................. 3 2.4 WHAT IS ADEQUATE WATER SUPPLY COVERAGE?..................................................................................... 5 2.5 WHAT IS ADEQUATE PROVISION OF SANITATION?...................................................................................... 6 3 WATER SUPPLY ............................................................................................................................................. 7 3.1 INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................... 7 3.2 TECHNICAL REVIEW OF THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM ................................................................................ 7 3.2.1 General Overview ................................................................................................................................. 7 3.2.2 Management of BUWSA........................................................................................................................ 7 3.2.3 Main Components of the existing Bunda Water Supply System............................................................ 8 3.3 REHABILITATION OF BUNDA WATER SUPPLY INFRASTRUCTURE .............................................................. 11 3.4 TARIFFS AND METERING........................................................................................................................... 11 3.5 OTHER POTENTIAL RAW WATER SOURCES............................................................................................... 11 3.6 PROBLEMS WITH THE WATER SUPPLY FOR BUNDA ................................................................................... 12 3.7 WATER SUPPLY IN LOW INCOME AREAS .................................................................................................. 12 4 SEWERAGE AND SANITATION ................................................................................................................ 13 4.1 AVAILABLE SANITATION .......................................................................................................................... 13 4.2 SANITATION IN LOW-INCOME AREAS ....................................................................................................... 13 4.3 HEALTH HAZARDS OF POOR SANITATION ................................................................................................. 13 5 SOLID WASTE AND DRAINAGE............................................................................................................... 14 5.1 SOLID WASTE ........................................................................................................................................... 14 5.2 URBAN DRAINAGE.................................................................................................................................... 14 6 URBAN PHYSICAL PLANNING................................................................................................................. 15 6.1 EARLIER ATTEMPTS AT PHYSICAL PLANNING........................................................................................... 15 6.2 NEED FOR PHYSICAL PLANNING ............................................................................................................... 15 6.3 WAY FORWARD ........................................................................................................................................ 15 7 ORPHANS AND OTHER VULNERABLE GROUPS ................................................................................ 16 7.1 THE IMPACT OF THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC IN BUNDA ............................................................................... 16 7.2 CHALLENGES ............................................................................................................................................ 16 7.3 STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS HIV/AIDS....................................................................................................... 16 7.4 HIV/AIDS ORPHANS................................................................................................................................17 7.5 THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON LAND RIGHTS........................................................................................... 17 7.6 EXISTING FACILITIES IN BUNDA FOR ORPHANS ........................................................................................ 17 7.7 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FOLLOW-UP ACTIONS ........................................................................................ 18 8 TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING..................................................................................................19 8.1 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS......................................................................................................................... 19 8.2 FAST-TRACK CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMME...................................................................................... 19 8.3 CAPACITY BUILDING FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITIES ................................................ 20 9 IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY .............................................................................................................. 21 9.1 IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY.................................................................................................................... 21 November 2008 UN-HABITAT – LVWATSAN Bunda Appraisal Report 9.2 MULTI-STAKEHOLDERS FORUM (MSF) OR PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT .......................................................... 21 9.3 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNIT (PIU) AT THE TOWN LEVEL................................................................... 21 9.4 PROJECT MANAGEMENT UNIT (PMU) AT NATIONAL LEVEL..................................................................... 21 9.5 OVERALL APPROACH TO IMPLEMENTATION .............................................................................................. 22 9.6 MSF ESTABLISHED IN BUNDA................................................................................................................... 23 9.7 ISSUES RAISED DURING THE MSF MEETING ............................................................................................. 24 10 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS AND PROBLEMS TO BE ADDRESSED.................................................... 28 10.1 DEVELOP LONG-TERM DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR BUNDA TC .................................................................. 28 10.2 WATER SUPPLY......................................................................................................................................... 28 10.3 SANITATION.............................................................................................................................................. 29 10.4 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT................................................................................................................... 29 10.5 DRAINAGE ................................................................................................................................................ 29 10.6 URBAN PHYSICAL PLANNING.................................................................................................................... 30 10.7 CAPACITY BUILDING................................................................................................................................. 30 10.8 ADVOCACY AND AWARENESS RAISING .................................................................................................... 30 10.9 URBAN CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................ 30 10.10 GENDER MAINSTREAMING AND SUPPORT TO VULNERABLE GROUPS........................................................ 30 11 PROPOSED INTERVENTIONS................................................................................................................... 31 11.1 WATER SUPPLY: ......................................................................................................................................