Great work

By Water for People Posted on Mon 11 Dec 2006, over 19 years ago

I think this is a great project, well thought out and submitted by a serious and professional organisation. Many people say they will monitor but I think El Porvenir's work on this is excellent and substantive.

we have a great deal to learn from you all

Thanks

ned

Great work

By El Porvenir Posted on Mon 11 Dec 2006, over 19 years ago

Thanks a lot Ned. We also have a lot of respect for Water for People.

On the monitoring note, I think we can stil do more, and I hope to overhaul our monitoring systems this year. If you or anyone else out there has any insights on effective indicators that are not too burdensome for my promotors in the field to collect, I'd be glad to hear about them...

Thanks,
Rob

Can we change region focus

By Blue Planet Network Posted on Tue 12 Dec 2006, over 19 years ago

Is it possible to do all the projects in one region?

Instead of using the funds in 3 regions, do you have enough identfied villages in one region (personally prefer the driest one) that all the projects could be more consolidated?

Secondly, how can we introduce the family planning workshops into these projects (like what was done last year)?

Can we change region focus

By El Porvenir Posted on Tue 12 Dec 2006, over 19 years ago

Hello Rajesh

In some future year, maybe 2008, we could plan our funding allocation in order to allocate a specific number or total dollar amount of projects in one region. At present we have committed virtually all of our 06-07 projects to specific funders and there are not enough left unfunded to make a concentration in one region. I am sending you by email the tracking sheet we use to allocate projects to grantors so you can see the problem directly for yourself. Could I ask why you would want us to do that? We have regional funding from two other foundations, but they do not just fund water/san projects, they fund community health education, reforestation, staff salaries including portions of central office admin and accounting, office expense, staff transportation, development costs for potential new projects, and capital purchases (e.g. water testing equipment, motorcycles, sump pumps for well cleaning, etc). If Blue Planet would like to shift to that type of funding instead of trying to reach $25 per person for water, we would be more than delighted to assign a region to Blue Planet and submit a buget for our regional work. Our driest region is El Sauce in Leon province. We could start now planning such a proposal to you for 07-08.
We can introduce family planning workshops at any time by coordination with ProFamilia whose staff did those workshops in Blue Planet communities last year.

Carole