Improve Living Conditions of Rural Populations in Covalima District
- Funding: Australian Aid / Besik
- Budget: Approximately K€700 (material included)
- Duration: 10 months (October 2010 to september 2011)
The objective of the project is to improve the living conditions of rural populations in Covalima district by building and/or rehabilitating the potable water network and improving hygiene and sanitation conditions in the area.
Results anticipated:
- Provide access to water for the residents of Covalima, in compliance with international standards in terms of quantity and quality;
- Raise hygiene and sanitation standards;
- Provide target communities with the technical skills to maintain the water network equipment on a daily basis;
- Strengthen the competences of national authorities regards potable water networks management.
Activities
- For the network:
- Discuss and communicate with communities
- Identify needs, technical surveys, networks design
- Draft and publish call for tenders for provision of material
- Perform rehabilitation and/or construction of water networks
- Link piping
- For sanitation:
- Mobilise communities through the CLTS (Community-led total sanitation)
- Supply material for construction of latrines for most vulnerable people
- Technical support and guidance
- Hygiene promotion
- Community training:
- Implement committees in communities
- Identify relay (key) people
- Provide theoretical and practical training
- Supply spare parts
- Strengthen competencies:
- Train the local partner: community mobilisation, technical competencies, project follow-up and evaluation
- Guide and train the DNSAS (the decentralised national water department of the district) in various areas:
- Technical: topographic surveys, water quality test, hydraulic training, infrastructures design, etc.
- Organisational: project cycle, monitoring, storage, etc.
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