Progress/Status Report | Final report april 2010 PWX BPR ID 73 Lake George Uganda

FINAL REPORT ID 73

INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

Lake George Uganda

Period:01/09/2007 – 30/09/2009

Name* (Limit 150 letters)
Integrated Water Resource Management Lake George Uganda PWX application ID: 73
Project Summary* (Limit 256 letters)
PROTOS in Uganda was engaged in the implementation of Integrated Water Resource Management in the Lake George Region. In this context the provision of drinking water by installment of specific infrastructure was a major part of the program. The infrastructure mainly consised of shallow wells and protected springs. Due to the complementarities to safe drinking water providence, PROTOS also focused on safety and hygiene training and basic infrastructure. The BPR contribution was mainly used for the realization of drinking water infrastructure in communities and schools.

PROTOS works in Uganda in close cooperation with two local NGO’s, being JESE and FORUD. The cooperation with these organizations provides the project “on the field experience” and an adequate platform for the supporting activities; such as training in hygiene and infrastructure maintenance.
Start DateActual/Estimated 1/9/2007
Completion Date Actual 30/09/2009
Amount Funded Through PWX : 25700 USD
Remaining Amount : 0 USD
Amount Allocated (towards this project from PWX funding) : 25735USD
Total Project CostFull, actual cost of the Project in USD. : 622468 USD
Total No. of People Impacted
See below : 22.379
No. of People Getting Drinking Water Enter Details Number of families, children, women, etc. and source of data
Period 1/9/2008 – 31/9/2009 : approx. 4750 persons (17 shallow wells and 1 protected spring) Details : 792 families, 387 men, 405 women
4 rainwater tanks in schools or 3335 pupils
Total : 3335 pupils + 40 teachers
Period 1/7/2007 – 31/08/2009: 5000 persons ( 9 shallow wells, 2 protected springs)
Total : 13125 persons
Source of data : M&E reports, baseline study, population data and assumptions.

Number of School Children Getting Water Enter Details Number of children and staff, etc. and source of data
3335 pupils + 40 teachers
Source of data : M&E reports partners, baseline study and assumptions
No. of People Getting Sanitation Enter Details Number of families, children, women, etc. and source of data
Ecosan built at school level : 3 (6 stance Ecosans) 1135 pupils + 26 teachers
Household Ecosan built (and households trained) : 51 families or 306 persons
8 public Ecosans built: approx. 800 persons
Total: 2267

Different trainings/awareness/sensitization programs
Training in schools (C2C) : 12 schools or approx 720 pupils
Training and awareness session at household levels : 1688 households or approx. 10128 persons
Training in villages (PHAST, ..) : 42 PHAST trainers formed, 1604 persons trained
Water user committees trained on H&S : 15 WUC or 525 persons
Village hygiene promoters formed : 54 persons
4 demo homes built with 128 persons trained
Total : software for 13159 persons
Source of data : M&E reports partners, baseline study and assumptions

No. of People Getting Other Benefits Enter Details Number of families, children, women, etc. and source of data
Primary Focus :
- Local leaders :
o Training on project planning for 118 local leaders on village, subcounty and county level
o Training on tendering for 37 local leaders
o …
- Training and support of 3 local drama groups on hygiene, sanitation and safe drinking water
- Training of a women group on construction of rainwater harvesting tanks for households and construction of 4 household tanks
- Better hygiene on landing site : construction of two fish slabs for cleaning fresh fish
- Cattle holders : water for cattle : construction of 2 drinking throughs on shallow well outlets
- Training of 25 local pump technicians
- ..
Secondary Focus
- Masons trained in construction of household Ecosan : 8
- Households adopting Ecosan technology : 6 household Ecosans and 1 public at school.
Tertiary Focus
- Representatives of local district authorities , Lagbimo and DWD representatives for IWRM “integrated water resources management “ of Mpanga river in the Lake George basin: 15
Narrative Describe the implementation and initial impacts. Include changes from the application.
PROTOS has in partnership with JESE and FORUD been building 39 water points consisting of shallow wells and, protected springs. The implementation of this infrastructure has been done in a participatory approach with clear roles for the local communities (beneficiaries) and local authorities. Community authorities have been trained in tendering and external contractors were granted the works. The beneficiaries were trained to form representing water user committees in the initial phase of the projects in order to improve ownership.
Next to this main infrastructure component of the program PROTOS has integrated other water technologies in its program, being in a smaller scale and for different purposes (not only for human consumption). Good examples are the fish slabs on fishermen landing sites for allowing clean processing of the fish and building Ecosan latrines on public places like landing sites and market places.
Pilots have been done in building rainwater harvesting tanks at both institutional (school) and household level.
Related to hygiene and sanitation knowledge, a lot of effort has been done to create awareness and to sensitize the people in the intervention, using different methods :
- Supporting and equipping drama groups who are performing on H&S topics in the area
- Training the water user committees
- Perform household visits and build demo homes
- Train hygiene promoters and introduce PHAST sessions (Participatory Hygiene And Sanitation Transformation).
- Start school hygiene groups and health classes using C2C (Child to Child) approach
- …
The Hygiene and sanitation component of the program was also linked with the infrastructure component which is again on both institutional level (e.g. multi stance Ecosan in schools and public latrine on market) and household level (mainly household Ecosan toilets). The Ecosan technology has shown to be well accepted after the different sensitization and training being done and its different benefits are more and more understood (use of urine – composted fecal material as compost). Furthermore it was shown that on the landing sites where ground water tables are very high, this technology is the best fit. Even on the District level it was decided that for these areas it is “the” technology to be promoted (allowed) by all development partners.
Last but not least, PROTOS has played a prominent role in creating the first decentralized “Integrated water Resources Management” pilot project in Uganda. Several representatives of involved local district authorities and representatives of LAGBIMO ( Lake George Basin Integrated Management Organisation) were put together on the table with representatives of DWD Directorate of Water Development (body of central authorities Uganda) to form a Catchment Committee for the river Mpanga, the most important river of Lake George basin. They are working together on 4 issues/threaths for the river. It is the first decentralized IWRM Committee working in Uganda: it is closely followed by central authorities and promoted as the good practice case for other basin authorities starting activities.
Maintenance Costs (Annual, in US$)
Maintenance cost of the water infrastructure most frequently used (the shallow well with hand pump) is considered to be very low. So far, on all shallow wells and their pumping installations no significant breakdowns were observed and only small repairs related to fencing etc were to be done. These repairs are all done with local materials and local labour (water user committee) at no cost.(nothing purchased)
In theory, it can be expected that the lifespan of the pump is about ten years and the concrete structure has no real expiry date. Taking into account the cost of the pump of about 1000 USD the annual value decrease is about 100 USD.
Maintenance cost for other infrastructures :
- Protected spring : mainly related to maintenance of the catchment zone (labour of the water user committee) and replacement of the tap (estimated at 20 USD per year)
- Ecosan at schools : maintenance is shown to be very low and is mainly related to related equipment (hand washing tank (tap) and door for units. Maintenance cost is estimated to be below 100 USD per year
- Household Ecosan : maintenance cost is not relevant (upper structures (housing and door + roofs are built by household itself using local materials (reeds, grass, …)

Sustainability Model Long-term sustainable impact, including ongoing maintenance and revenue.
See maintenance costs. The water user committees are collecting money from users as a water user fee has been agreed. In reality it shows that there are many challenges to collect this fee. A survey shows that the collected fees range from 0 USD/year up to 50 USD per year.
Therefore PROTOS started medio 2009 the formation of water user associations in order to group water users from different water points into one bigger group. From this group the income will be made available for microcredits. The project is established in collaboration with the District Water Office and the first results indicate indeed higher revenues. The long term effect is to be examined.
PROTOS is continuing his program in this intervention area and will further focus on the set up of these structures for sustainability of investments.
Other Issues Describe other issues encountered during the project.
A lot effort has been done to introduce ecological sanitation (Ecosan) in the intervention zone. At first the technology showed different challenges but the experience in the field shows that different households have now seen the advantages and adopted the technology. This is due to a large effort on sensitization and promoting the advantages (e.g. manure production and protection against collapsing soils) as well as a process to find building options to largely reduce the cost (now a low cost Ecosan is rated at approx 70 – 100 USD).
During the course of the project high increase in the price of some materials has been observed (eg fuel, cement, ..): this has had an impact on the realization of infrastructure.
PROTOS has introduced formal tendering procedures where the local leaders, together with the members of the water users committee of the new water point are trained to tender out the work. The objective was to increase ownership of the target groups and to enforce the different roles of the stakeholders in the implementation process. In reality we see that the number of capable construction companies in these remote intervention areas are limited which results into the fact that the same contractors were often selected.
Learnings Share the learnings from the project and the process of implementation.
In general it has been experienced that public water and sanitation infrastructure show many challenges in their usage. These relate to vandalism on rain water tanks in schools (taps broken/stolen), latrines/Ecosan on markets and landing sites. Therefore in a later the 2ned project stage, priority has been given to household intervention. Some public infrastructure is still being provided such as school Ecosan toilets. This infrastructure has shown to be well used/maintained in this protected environment when the school has successfully installed hygiene groups (through C2C processes).
PROTOS april 13th 2010