A D B F U N D E D W A T E R S U P P L Y A N D S A N I T A T I O N S E C T O R P R O J E C T – A D D I T I O N A L F I N A N C I N G SOCIOLOGICAL AND GENDER SURVEY PHASE I SUBPROJECT I Lernamerdz, Amberd, Aygeshat, Dasht, Doghs, Shahumyan, Shahumyan PF, Mousaler, Norakert, Voskevaz, Voskehat, Oshakan, Aghavnatun, Ptghunk villages, Armavir Region Yerevan, 2013 JINJ LLC HGSN – JINJ Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project – Additional Financing STATE COMMITTEE OF WATER SYSTEM UNDER THE RA MINISTRY FOR TERRITORIAL GOVERNANCE ARMENIAN WATER AND SEWERAGE CJSC DETAILED DESIGN A D B F U N D E D W A T E R S U P P L Y A N D S A N I T A T I O N S E C T O R P R O J E C T – A D D I T I O N A L F I N A N C I N G SUBPROJECT II –IMPROVEMENT OF WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS IN ARMAVIR REGION SETTLEMENTS Contract # L2860-ICB-1-01 SOCIOLOGICAL AND GENDER SURVEY PHASE I Project director V. Hovasapyan HGSN LLC, Design Chief Engineer E. Grigoryan PR Specialist H. Aslanyan Yerevan, 2013 JINJ LLC Subproject I – Detail Design 2 HGSN – JINJ Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project – Additional Financing Content 1. Sociological survey ................................................................................................................. 5 1.1 Social-demographic description of the population in the project area ............................... 5 1.2 Selection and method of the inquiry .................................................................................. 5 1.3 Gender-age combination of the respondents and description of households .................... 5 1.4 Main income sources of households ................................................................................. 6 1.5 Sanitary conditions in households .................................................................................... 7 1.6 Assessment of the water supply current state .................................................................. 7 1.6.1 Methods of drinking water consumption by the households .................................... 7 1.6.2 Duration of the average daily water supply of households ..................................... 8 1.6.3 Satisfaction from the water supply duration and quality ........................................ 10 1.7 Drinking water-borne diseases ....................................................................................... 12 1.8 Main issues of women relating to the water supply ......................................................... 13 1.8.1 Drinking water supply in the households ............................................................... 13 1.8.2 Main purposes of drinking water consumptions .................................................... 14 1.9 Payments for the consumed water ................................................................................. 14 1.9.1 Frequency of payments for the consumed water bill ............................................. 14 1.9.2 Consumed water bill ............................................................................................. 15 1.9.3 Payments for public services ................................................................................ 16 1.10 Attitude towards the water metering system of the consumed water volume ................ 17 1.11 Awareness and cooperation with AWS CJSC regarding the activities directed at improvement and support of the services provided to the AWS consumers ................ 17 1.11.1 Awareness of AWS CJSC consumers about the activities of the service improvement and support ......................................................................................... 17 1.11.2 Cooperation with AWS CJSC ............................................................................. 18 1.12 Results of the analyses of sociological-gender surveys ................................................ 18 Appendix 1. Social survey checklist .......................................................................................... 19 Appendix 2. Photos of sociological and gender surveys, discussions ....................................... 22 Subproject I – Detail Design 3 HGSN – JINJ Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project – Additional Financing Table 1 Gender-age combination .............................................................................................. 5 Table 2. Means of drinking water consumption by households in communities, rates ............... 8 Table 3. Duration of daily average water supply of the households in rates .............................. 9 Table 4. Are you satisfied with water supply? ......................................................................... 10 Table 5. Are you content with water supply quality? ................................................................ 11 Table 6. Satisfaction of the households of the communities with water supply quality ............. 12 Table 7. Have you had any cases of water-borne diseases in your family in recent years? .... 13 Table 8. If required in the households ..................................................................................... 14 Table 9. Main purposes of drinking water consumption........................................................... 14 Table 10. How often do you pay for the water bill? .................................................................. 14 Table 11. Payments for consumed water in summer and winter months ................................. 15 Table 12. For which services do you pay most? ..................................................................... 17 Table 13. Are you informed on the AWSC activities directed at improvement and support of the service provided to the customers? ......................................................................... 17 Table 14. Cooperation with AWS ............................................................................................ 18 Table 15. Would you like to cooperate in future? .................................................................... 18 Graph 1 .................................................................................................................................... 6 Graph 2 .................................................................................................................................... 6 Graph 3 .................................................................................................................................. 15 Graph 4 .................................................................................................................................. 16 Graph 5 .................................................................................................................................. 16 Subproject I – Detail Design 4 HGSN – JINJ Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project – Additional Financing 1. Sociological survey 1.1 Social-demographic description of the population in the project area The project includes Lernamerdz, Amberd, Aygeshat, Dasht, Doghs, Shahumyan, Shahumyan PF, Musaler, Norakert, Aghavnatun, Ptghunk villages of Armavir Marz and Voskevaz, Voskehat, Oshakan villages of Aragatsotn Marz. The number of permanent population in Armavir Marz dated 2012, January 1st is 22202 people, current population number is 20066, from which 10695 are women. The number of households in the project area of Armavir Marz is 4506, from which the existing ones are 4241. In this area a tendency of natural increase in population number is observed, as in accordance with data received in 2012, the birth number exceeded the number of death cases by 78 people. The number of births was 215, and that of deaths was 137. The number of permanent population in Aragatsotn Marz dated 2012, January 1st is 11699, current population number is 11569, from which 5864 are women. The number of households is 3392, from which the existing ones are 3318. In this area a tendency of natural increase in population number is observed, as in accordance with data received in 2012, the birth number exceeded the number of deaths cases 43 people. The number of births was 136, and that of deaths was 93. The presented information on statistic data was received from the leaders of the village communities. 1.2 Selection and method of the inquiry Random selection has been used for the survey, in this way providing equal possibility for each household to be selected. Based on this principle, from the existing 7559 households in 14 communities the selected and surveyed households have been 234. The survey of information in the area of households has been made by a specially prepared checklist. The checklist is attached in Appendix 1. 1.3 Gender-age combination of the respondents and description of households In these households 54.7% percent of the respondents were 41-60, 22.2% percent were 61 and older, 19.2% percent were 26-40, and 3.9% percent were 18-25 years old. 38.0% percent of them were men, 62.0% were women. The number of women exceeds the number of responding men, which can be reasoned by men being occupied at that moment, their absence, dominance of women in that region, etc. It must also be mentioned, that women associate with drinking water issues more for domestic and sanitary–hygienic needs. Gender- age combination is given in the following table 1. Table 1 Gender-age combination Age Gender 18-25 26-40 41-60 60 and more Male 33.3% 33.3% 36.0% 48.1% Female 66.7% 66.7% 64.0% 51.9% Subproject I – Detail Design 5 HGSN – JINJ Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project – Additional Financing The number of members in 234 households selected