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Self Supply
All documents related to self supply.
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With 40 million or more rural people without access to safe water, Ethiopia is faced with a major challenge to reach the Univer-sal Access Plan targets (98% coverage by 2012) or even the MDG target (52% coverage by 2015). At the same time there have already been mass campaigns to encourage household investment in rainwater harvesting for irrigation and well-digging. As a result, the government is keen to adopt the concepts of low-cost solutions and Self Supply and is exploring the best ways to do so. This field note documents the experiences in Ethiopia.
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This paper documents progress in relation to Self Supply approaches in Mali and identifies some of the issues which may influence strategy or which need resolving.
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Well Rings in Zambia
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Zambia has a very low density rural population, which makes the establishment of sustainable community water supplies a particular challenge. Previous piloting of improvements to traditional water sources showed both a demand for and an impact from low cost up-grading (Sutton 2002). UNICEF, with RWSN technical support, has been encouraging improvements to water supplies in some of the poorest districts of Luapula Province. Remarkably, these have been achieved with zero subsidy. All hardware costs (labour and materials) are covered by householders; the donor input being only in capacity building through training and marketing.
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Findings from assessing and piloting Self Supply acceleration suggest that encouraging household investment can truly offer a viable option for improving water supplies. This field note draws together the lessons from the piloting work in Ethiopia, Mali, Uganda and Zambia and shows how Self Supply and its acceleration can help government and planners to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for access to safe water, and ultimately universal access, especially in areas which are difficult to serve adequately with community supplies.
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Findings from assessing and piloting Self Supply acceleration suggest that encouraging household investment can truly offer a viable option for improving water supplies. This field note draws together the lessons from the piloting work in Ethiopia, Mali, Uganda and Zambia and shows how Self Supply and its acceleration can help government and planners to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets for access to safe water, and ultimately universal access, especially in areas which are difficult to serve adequately with community supplies.
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The Ministry of Water and Environment and numerous Non-Government Organisations in Uganda have several years of experience in the promotion of rainwater harvesting for domestic use as well as the piloting of household-led improvements to hand-dug wells. It is becoming clear that many households are able and willing to invest in making improvements to their own water supplies. RWSN has just published a field note which documents the story of promoting such investments in Uganda from the late 1990s to 2010 and sets key issues as the country develops a Guiding Framework for Accelerating Access to Safe and Reliable Water through Self Supply in Uganda. These issues include the development of clear guidelines, training of the private sector, and links to planning and financial mechanisms
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This document provides the achievements and lessons learned from the Uganda self-supply pilot Project (2006-2008). The pilot project followed a research study undertaken in 2005 that indicated that self-supply initiatives existed in the Uganda rural water sector. Following the study a pilot project was launched in September 2006 and involved engagement of two local NGOs with support from Government. The pilot brought about a cost effective up- grading of 41 water sources serving approximately 600 households. More importantly it enhanced understanding of self-supply in Uganda, and a number of emerging lessons emerged. These provide a better focused definition of self-supply, and of the appropriate ways and means for future scaling-up.
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Hand drilling methods can offer low cost, rapid access to shallow, unconsolidated
aquifers typically found in dambo environments (seasonally waterlogged African
wetlands).
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This field note provides the reader with an introduction to self-supply.
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A Self Supply Pilot Project’ was established in 2006, to determine the scope for externally supporting incremental improvements to these ‘self supply’ sources. It was implemented by two Ugandan NGOs in Eastern Uganda; UMURDA and WEDA, in Bugiri and Amuria Districts, respectively.
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