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Accelerating Self Supply - Summary of progress in introducing a new approach
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.
Piloting has been successful in four very different contexts. Financial investments in infrastructure by external agencies are shown to be not always necessary and can even undermine later attempts to scale up. It can take five years or more for Self Supply to be fully included in national strategies and to be brought to scale on the ground. In Ethiopia, Self Supply has been incorporated into the Universal Access Plan, which advocates for low-cost technologies as well as household and community investment in rural water supplies. In the other three countries, the Self Supply approach has been accepted into national strategies for health or rural water, but has yet to be fully incorporated into written policy documents
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