WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SECTOR PROJECT – ADDITIONAL FINANCING FUNDED BY ADB IMPROVEMENT OF WATER SUPPLY AND WASTE WATER SYSTEMS OF RA SETTLEMENTS SOCIAL AND GENDER SURVEY PHASE I SUBPROJECT X Improvement of the water supply systems of Aragatsotn marz settlements: Talin town and Aruch, Partizak, Nor-Amanos, Arevut, Kanch, Hako, Sorik and Karaberd villages Yerevan, July 2014 JINJ LLC HGSN LLC –JINJ LLC Improvement of the water supply systems of RA settlements STATE COMMITTEE OF WATER SYSTEM UNDER THE RA MINISTRY FOR TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE “ARMWATERSEWERAGE” CJSC DETAILED DESIGN WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SECTOR PROJECT – ADDITIONAL FINANCING FUNDED BY ADB SUBPROJECT X - IMPROVEMENT OF THE WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN THE SETTLEMENTS OF ARAGATSOTN REGION Contract L2860 - ICB - 1- 10 Report: Social and gender survey (phase 1) Project director V. Hovasapyan HGSN LLC, Design Chief Engineer A. Khachaturyan PR Specialist H. Aslanyan Yerevan, July, 2014 JINJ LLC Subproject X – Detailed design 2 HGSN LLC –JINJ LLC Improvement of the water supply systems of RA settlements Content 1. Sociological survey ................................................................................................................ 5 1.1 Social-demographic description of the population in the project area .................................... 5 1.2 Selection method and representativeness ........................................................................ 5 1.3 Gender-age combination of the respondents and description of households .................... 6 1.4 Main income sources of the households .......................................................................... 7 1.5 Sanitary conditions in the households .............................................................................. 8 1.6 Assessment of the current state of the water supply ........................................................ 8 1.6.1 Methods of drinking water consumption by the households .................................... 8 1.6.2 Duration of the average daily water supply of the households ................................ 9 1.6.3 Satisfaction with the water supply duration and quality ......................................... 10 1.7 Drinking water-borne diseases ....................................................................................... 13 1.8 Main issues of women related to the water supply ......................................................... 14 1.8.1 Drinking water supply in the households .............................................................. 14 1.8.2 Main purposes of drinking water consumptions .................................................... 16 1.9 Payments for consumed water ....................................................................................... 16 1.9.1 Frequency of payments for consumed water bill ................................................... 16 1.9.2 Consumed water bill amount ................................................................................ 17 1.9.3 Payments for public utilities .................................................................................. 18 1.10 Attitude towards the water metering system of the consumed water volume ................ 19 1.11 Awareness and cooperation with AWS CJSC regarding the activities directed at improvement and support of the services provided to the AWS consumers ................ 20 1.11.1 Awareness of AWS CJSC consumers about the activities of the service improvement and support ......................................................................................... 20 1.11.2 Cooperation with AWS CJSC ............................................................................. 20 1.12 Results of the analyses of social-gender surveys ......................................................... 21 Appendix 1. Social survey questionnaire .................................................................................. 22 Appendix 2. Photos of sociological and gender surveys, discussions ....................................... 24 Subproject X – Detailed design 3 HGSN LLC –JINJ LLC Improvement of the water supply systems of RA settlements List of Tables ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table 1. Demographic data and household survey selection ...................................................... 6 Table 2. Gender-age combination of the respondents ............................................................... 6 Table 3. Means of drinking water consumption .......................................................................... 8 Table 4. Duration of water supply .............................................................................................. 9 Table 5. The water supply hours and duration ......................................................................... 11 Table 6. Water quality ............................................................................................................... 11 Table 7. Assessment of water quality ...................................................................................... 12 Table 8. Water-borne diseases ................................................................................................ 13 Table 9. Drinking water provision according to the communities .............................................. 14 Table 10. Water absence issues ............................................................................................... 15 Table 11. Water availability ....................................................................................................... 15 Table 12. Main purposes of drinking water consumption .......................................................... 16 Table 13. Payment of the water bill .......................................................................................... 16 Table 14. Payments for consumed water .................................................................................. 17 Table 15. The attitude of h/h not having water meters towards the installation of water meters and improvement of services ............................................................................. 19 Table 16. Awareness of AWS CJSC ........................................................................................ 20 Table 17. Cooperation with AWS ............................................................................................. 21 Table 18.Future cooperation with AWS CJSC .......................................................................... 21 List of Graphs Graph 1 ............................................................................................................................ 7 Graph 2 ............................................................................................................................ 7 Graph 3 .......................................................................................................................... 12 Graph 4 .......................................................................................................................... 14 Graph 5 .......................................................................................................................... 17 Graph 6 .......................................................................................................................... 18 Graph 7 .......................................................................................................................... 19 Subproject X – Detailed design 4 HGSN LLC –JINJ LLC Improvement of the water supply systems of RA settlements 1. Sociological survey 1.1 Social-demographic description of the population in the project area The project covers the town of Talin, villages of Aruch, Partizak, Nor-Amanos, Arevut, Kanch, Hako, Sorik and Karaberd in the region of Aragatsotn. The number of permanent population in the subproject area of the Region of Aragatsotn (as of January 1st of 2013) is 11412, from which 5906 are women. The number of households in the project area in the Region of Aragatsotn (hereinafter h/h) is 2648. In this area a tendency of natural increase in population number, particularly in accordance with data received in 2012, the birth number exceeded the number of death cases nu 57. The number of births was 131, and that of deaths was 74. The presented information on demography was received from the urban and rural community authorities. The majority of population in the communities of Arevut, Kanch, Hako and Sorik covered by the subroject are national minorities Kurds and Yezidis. In those communities livestock breeding constitutes the major part of gross agricultural crop. The population is mainly occupied by breeding large and small cattle, and poultry breeding. The issue of repairing the drinking and irrigation waterlines outstands among other main issues of the communities. 1.2 Selection method and representativeness Simple Random Sample (SRS) method of the selection has been applied for the survey, in this way each household has the same probability of being chosen at any stage during the sampling process. Based on this principle, the number of selected and surveyed households in 9 communities among the existing 2648 has been 105. The survey of information in the area of households has been made by a specially prepared questionnaire. The questionnaire is attached to the Appendix 1. The survey has been carried out by face-to-face interview method. Quantitative methods of research