Review By (only shown to PWX members) about 5 years ago

Our rating does not reflect the quality of the project, but rather its fit with PWX. Blue Planet Run tries to address projects that come close to $25/person and work with organizations where direct contact with implementaters on the ground provides experience and helps reduced some of the bureaucratic layers.

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Review By (only shown to PWX members) about 5 years ago

Its an expensive project to be sure, and I think highlights the struggles of taking programme approaches and try to find project funding. Maybe could be financed with a plan on how to get the NGO as a future member of PWX (same at WFP, if we can solve the language issue in Bolivia).

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Review By (only shown to PWX members) about 5 years ago

The project description says all the right things.
If you have the goal of hygiene behavior change of 40% in the target communities by the end of the five-year period, how do you intend to measure its achievement? And why only try for 40% coverage in behavior change? Why not 60 or 80%? Improved water supply (using handpumps has a goal of 100% coverage.

I would suggest that Peer Water establish a standard budget reporting format so that apples can be compared with apples and oranges with oranges. Some of the projects seem to present their cost estimates in somewhat different formats, making in difficult to assess how, for example, the cost of piped water in Project A in Country A compares with the cost of piped water in Project B in Country B. This would help reviewers to more easily assess whether cost estimates appear realistic.

For example, in this budget it is not clear how much budget is allocated for improving water supply, and how much is focused on hygiene and sanitation behavioral change promotion. Typically, of the overall rural water and supply and sanitation project cost, the cost of water supply design and construction is about 75% of the total budget, the cost of improved latrines is about 15%, and improving hygiene and sanitation behavioral change is about 10%. Of course, this differs a bit from site to site and project to project, but it serves as a reasonable Rule of Thumb for comparative purposes.

I note that the community contributions are all in-kind, no cash. What do they do when the time comes to replace parts? Are parts locally available? There appears to be no mention of O&M costs and who would pay them.

Review By (only shown to PWX members) about 5 years ago

The level of government engagement is encouraging for changing the water sector in Ghana