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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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Promoting sustainable operation and maintenance of rural water and sanitation facilities in Zambia
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The report describes the legislative and institutional framework of the sector. The Directorate of Water Resources Management regulates the water drilling in Uganda. The Directorate licenses the drilling contractors and issues permits for drilling and water abstraction, and collects data for the national groundwater database. Every year, between 1,000 and 1,500 boreholes are drilled in Uganda. Currently applied siting as well as drilling contract formats are mostly no-water-no-pay contracts rather than Bills of Quantities contracts, which ultimately leads to lesser quality boreholes. Borehole drilling contracts by District Local Governments, constituting the largest fraction are procured after prequalification, whereas other actors also apply selected bidding or open bidding. The Sector Investment Plan (SIP) has studied various targeted service levels (access to safe water) based on selected combinations of water supply options. Combining the SIP information, current borehole costs and combined GoU / NGO funding capacity, it follows that there will be an increasing funding gap for borehole drilling.
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Study on the feasibility of manual drilling in Chad.
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UNICEF, Practica et EntrepriseWorks/VITA ont développé une mallette pédagogique à l’intention des pays africains souhaitant s’engager dans la professionnalisation du secteur du forage manuel. Cette mallette pédagogique comprend des fiches et manuels techniques, des éléments de plaidoyer, des cartographies des zones appropriées pour le forage manuel, des études de cas, et des manuels de formation et de mise en oeuvre. Cette initiative contribue à renforcer les capacités du secteur privé local de façon à répondre aux besoins en eau potable des zones rurales qui ne cessent de croître.
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This case study examines the impact of professional manual drilling operations on the problem of increasing the rate of delivery of improved water supply in Chad.
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This report documents the One Million Initiative experience on borehole drilling over the years 2008-2010, contrasts current practices with the nine principles of the recently released document by the Rural Water Supply Network, “Code of Practice for Cost Effective Boreholes”, and finally proposes recommended actions.
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Life-cycle costing can help planners estimate not only how much handpumps cost to install, but how much they cost to maintain. This article, published in article published in Waterlines Vol. 25 No. 1 July 2006, shows how it is done, and demonstrates that spending more on regular maintenance often works out cheaper in the long run.
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Highlights
Collaboration of UNICEF in the drilling components of the One Million Initiative in Mozambique, and the WASH Programme in Zambia has been a key factor to reduce costs by more than 30% and to improve cost-effectiveness.
Revised contractual approaches such as clustered and turn-key (siting and drilling) contracts in Mozambique and Zambia have led to reduced costs without forgetting that a healthy and competitive private drilling sector can improve progress towards the achievement of sustainable access to safe water.
Reconsideration of technical specifications such as borehole diameter has helped to improve cost-effectiveness of the drilling programme in Zambia.
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DWAF - NORAD TOOLKIT for WATER SERVICES: Number 7.2
The NORAD-Assisted Programme for the Sustainable Development of Groundwater Sources in South Africa was managed by the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry. The Introductory Guide to Appropriate Solutions for Water and Sanitation is Number 7.2 in the Toolkit for Water Services.
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