Improve Living Conditions of Rural Populations in Covalima District
- Funding: EuropeAid (European Commission), AFD (Agence Française de Développement)
- Global budget: €1, 793,161
- Duration: 36 months (May 2011 – April 2014)
- Number of beneficiaries: 10,147 people
- Partners: National Directorate of Water and Sanitation Services
NTF (Naroman Timor Foun), Timorese NGO
Since its first survey mission in 2004, Triangle G H has developed several programs on drinking water supply and sanitation in different regions of the country.
This program covers the Oecusse enclave, where the situation is most critical, only 10 to 15% of the population having access to sanitation facilities, and 14.8% to drinking water resources.
For the 13 villages identified and selected as part of this project, with an estimated total population of 10,147 inhabitants, the coverage is 2% for sanitation facilities, and 20% for drinking water resources.
A preparatory phase aiming at updating and verifying social data and selected technical choices will first be carried out, which will result in a participatory definition of the implementation of activities in each village.
The program then will unfold around three core areas:
Improving access to water:
- Set-up and/or strengthening of local water management committees and training of the latter;
- Identification and protection of water resources;
- Sizing and designing of infrastructures, purchase of equipment and rehabilitation / construction of water supply networks;
- Control of water quality and quantity in collaboration with the water and sanitation services.
Improving the sanitary environment with an increased access to basic sanitary infrastructures and the development of the knowledge and good practices related to hygiene:
- Running of Knowledge, Attitude, Practices (KAP) surveys, definition of hygiene messages and hygiene awareness sessions (20 per village and per year);
- Implementation of a Total Sanitation Piloted by the Community (TSPC) approach for the construction of 1,100 family latrines;
- Selection of vulnerable beneficiaries according to predetermined criteria, and construction of sanitary facilities.
Capacity building of the actors in charge of equipment:
- Designing of a matrix of the responsibilities on the maintenance of water infrastructures and definition of a training course together with the water and sanitation services, the communities and the local partner NGO;
- Running of technical training for the water management committees, the local partner and the water and sanitation services;
- Monitoring, support and assessment of measures taken by the actors in charge of the maintenance and repair of the water networks.
