Borehole
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Authors
Rob Cartridge
Issue Date
30/01/2015
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en
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Water and Sanitation
Alternative Title
Gwanda EU Water Facility 5000422
Abstract
This project’s major objective is to address the lack of access to safe water, adequate sanitation and health and hygiene education in Gwanda and Mwenezi districts. Specifically it will adapt and promote community led approaches as a model for complimenting other sustainable service delivery models of safe water, adequate sanitation and application of health and hygiene practices in the two districts. The project will further improve the situation of the beneficiaries by establishing a sustainable community led process that will promote the delivery of WatSan facilities and champion health and hygiene behaviour changes through community based planning and management. The two districts have survived through emergency support which, though important and necessary to save lives had sustainability limitations. Practical Action and its partners will mainstream the principles of community participation through community based management (CBM) of water points; community led total sanitation (CLTS) and participatory health and hygiene education (PHHE). By the end of the project, target communities will have at least 80% coverage of both water and sanitation facilities through rehabilitation of 1000 water points and drilling of 20 boreholes and construction of over 5000 latrines, The community will be trained to practice positive hygiene behaviors and will be able to maintain the water points on their own in a sustainable manner. This will ensure adequate supplies of safe water, access to adequate sanitation and practicing good health and hygiene behavior, a situation that will have improved from the current one which is prone to cholera and other water borne diseases outbreaks. The project will strengthen provincial and district WATSAN Subcommittees to effectively incorporate the community priorities in their development plans. Pump mechanics and community latrine builders will have the necessary skills, tools and materials for them to use during and after the action to repair pumps and build latrines respectively. Some of the targeted projects achievements are: •The rehabilitation of a 1, 000 borehole hand pumps •Drilling of 20 boreholes •,Construction of 4,000 Blair Ventilated Improved Pit latrines •Training of 1796 water point committees •Training of 80 pump mechanics •Training of 180 latrine builders •,Construction of 1,000 low cost sanitation technologies •Community led campaign of total sanitation to complement PHHE efforts. This will also be reinforced with an exchange visit to Tanzania for the policy makers to familiarise themselves with the concept.
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