H2Odata.city
improving local water infrastructure monitoring and maintenance capacity
H2Odata.city
improving local water infrastructure monitoring and maintenance capacity
a sustainability program to improve local water infrastructure monitoring and maintenance capacity through the training and responsibilization of local maintenance entities
Context
program justification
Context
program justification
According to the IMF, Burkina Faso has one of the lowest per capita supplies of water in the world [1]. To address this problem, various actors in the water sector have installed thousands of water points across the country in the last few decades. Today, however, over 20% of these installed water points have been found to be non-functional [2]. This can be attributed to three crucial factors:
- Water actors have an incomplete picture of drinking water services in Burkinabè cities. This prevents water actors from strategically using water data to inform repair and expansion efforts, meaning that available resources are not being targeted to the areas in greatest need.
Water point monitoring and maintenance roles are often not clearly defined. Water point maintenance entities, namely Water Point Committees (WPCs), have either not been appointed clearly or not at all. WPCs are the sectoral standard maintenance entity for assurance of water point longevity and sustainability.
There is no Standard Operating Procedure in place for response to a water point breakdown. Even when monitoring and maintenance roles have been defined, there isn't a strategy for repairing the water pont when it breaks.
As a result of these shortcomings, when water points fall into disrepair, they typically remain non-functional for upwards of 4 weeks [3]. During this time, the population is forced to turn to alternate, often unsafe water points for their water needs. The use of these alternate water points leads to the spread of water-borne diseases like diarrhea, and the reallocation of time by women and children previously dedicated to education or income-generating activities. As such, improper monitoring and maintenance of water infrastructure and services is not just a question water, but also of health, economy, education, women, and youth.
Program
H2Odata.city
Program
H2Odata.city
H2Odata.city is a sustainability program to improve local water infrastructure monitoring and maintenance capacity through the training and responsibilization of local maintenance entities. It is implemented in three principal phases:
Phase 1: Drinking water service data acquisition
Activities:
- Collect water point data for all public water points using open source survey tool Kobo Toolbox. Water point data collected include: GPS coordinates, type of water point, functionality status, status of WPC, and type of use, among others.
- Coordinate with project partners to acquire existing water infrastructure data for comparison.
Phase 2: Water infrastructure maintenance entity creation and/or fortification
Activities:
- Using data collected in Phase 1, determine water points requiring a) full WPC establishment, b) partial WPC fortification, or c) no action at all based on an evaluation rubric.
- For water points determined to need full WPC establishment, implicate and organize users of the water point into a WPC structure following USAID WA-WASH's protocol for WPC establishment [4] via a 3-day workshop.
- For water points determined to need partial WPC fortification, arrange a 3-day workshop for the existent WPC to mirror structures and practices employed in USAID WA-WASH's protocol for WPC establishment [4].
Phase 3: Water infrastructure repair standard operating procedure creation and/or fortification
Activities:
- Using data collected from Phase 1, determine water points requiring a) full SOP establishment, b) partial SOP fortification, or c) no action at all based on an evaluation rubric.
- For water points determined to need full SOP establishment, arrange a 2-day workshop for the WPC to introduce Initiative: Eau's SMS-based water point failure reporting system. For water points which require full or partial WPC establishment/fortification, SOP establishment will be included in the workshops of Phase 2.
- For water points determined to need partial SOP establishment, arrange a 2-day workshop for the WPC to introduce Initiative: Eau's SMS-based water point failure reporting system.
Objectives
program goals
Objectives
program goals
understand the state of drinking water services in a city at the level of infrastructure functionality, water quality, and service reliability
fortify and when necessary establish water point maintenance committees
fortify and when necessary establish standard operating procedures for water point repair
Implementations
active instances of H2Odata.city
Implementations
active instances of H2Odata.city
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References
References
[1] International Monetary Fund. (2015). Issues in Managing Water Challenges and Policy Instruments: Regional Perspectives and Case Studies. Accessed 03 January 2018, from https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1511tn.pdf.
[2] Rural Water Supply Network. (2016). What's working, Where, and for How Long: A 2016 Water Point Update. Accessed 03 January 2018, http://www.rural-water-supply.net/_ressources/documents/default/1-787-2-1502962732.pdf.
[3] Initiative: Eau. (2015). WASHMobile Program Brief. Internal document (available on request).
[4] United States Agency for International Development. (2016). USAID West Africa Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene Program (USAID WA-WASH) - USAID WA-WASH FINAL REPORT. Retrieved 03 January 2018, from http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00KWMW.pdf.