Sustainable Water Point Maintenance Meeting Minutes 18.11.10
Gabriele AVSI-Gulu
Thank you very much, for the enthusiasm showed in attending our last meeting.
Please find attached the minutes.
I hope to see you and more partners in our next reunion at the beginning of December.
Best Regards
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Gabriele Erba
Livelihoods Program Assistant
UNH5 - WINGS
AVSI - Gulu
From: Amelia Lyons <wash-gu.ug@acf-international.org>
Date: 2010/11/14
Subject: [Acholi Contact Group], Sustainable Water Point Maintenance Meeting
To: acholi-con...@googlegroups.com, gulu-wat...@googlegroups.com
Dear All,
A few of months ago, partner organizations active in water interventions in
Gulu District (ACF, AVSI, Uganda Red Cross Society, ICRC, Netherlands Red Cross
and The Clear Water Initiative) saw challenges being faced in Acholi Region
regarding water supply and unmaintained boreholes at the community level.
We found that there is an obvious a gap in the system. As part of our working
group, we were determined to identify where this gap occurs, and whether it
involves the local Pump Mechanics, the communities, the Sub-County, or the
District. Questions arose about the allocation of boreholes to Pump
Mechanics, user fees collected by the Water Source Committees, and
accessibility of available Spare Parts at the District level.
In order to address these problems and define the missing link in the supply
chain, we started a series of meetings, open to all interested organization,
during which we deliberated to jointly organize:
1.
A Pump Mechanic
Survey: to understand the real coverage of active pump mechanics and the nature
of problems that are preventing them from delivering effective performance.
2.
A refresher Pump Mechanic
Training: to rejuvenate the know-how of this incredibly useful body for the
water accessibility of the region.
3.
Inclusion of the Water
Source Committees in the above mentioned Pump Mechanic trainings to strengthen
the link between users and mechanics, and above all, to create financial and
management understanding within the committee to achieve a sustainable and
independent maintenance of the boreholes.
4. To create a functioning spare parts network, for those NGOs phasing out or donating their balance of spares from old programs. These parts could be delivered to the district, who in turn would sell them to the requesting Pump Mechanics at subsidized rates not subject to high market fluctuation.
Despite the initial high turnout
of the initiative, the meeting is now experiencing attendance problems. We
would like to emphasize the importance of this initiative in the long-term
sustainability of water programs in Acholi (and throughout Ugandan) and address
the increasing breakdown and non-functionality of boreholes.
This communication is meant to draw your attention to such important and
delicate issues, especially in times when is leading to the phase-out of many
organizations.
For these and many other reasons, all partners involved in this initiative
believe to be fundamental to the implementation of the points mentioned above
in order to empower local Water Source Committees to independently
guarantee their constant accessibility to clean water.
Therefore we warmly invite you to attend our meeting next week, Thursday the
18th of November at 2:00 PM, at the Gulu District Water Office.
Please come and be active part in this important activity, and also to review the developed Pump Mechanic Survey.
Sincerely,
Gabriele
Erba
Livelihood Programs Assistant
AVSI-Gulu
Amelia Lyons
WASH Program Manager
ACF-Gulu
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peter Ogenga
Dear All
In response to the recent action point of WP Maintenance Meeting to UNICEF, please find the attached Ministry of Water and Environment (MoWE) guideline mainly on steps of software activities before jumping into the construction of water points to create a awareness and demand from the users for the sustainable Water Services and taking responsibility by users committee for long term sustainability.
These steps outline how operation and maintenance issues should be planned for integrated in the different stages of implementation of the project, namely during i) planning phase
ii) pre - construction phase iii) Construction Phase and iv) Post construction phase.
Requesting for your kind attention to revisit organizational implementation modalities and see how could we re-strengthen/in line/incorporate those software activities to make our community capable of taking responsibility future operation and maintenance activities without any external support.
(See attached file: A5.1 Software Steps.pdf)
Prakash Lamsal
WASH Specialist; Gulu, UNICEF Uganda
Mobile: +256 (0)717173450; Direct Line: +256 (0)417173450
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Gabriele AVSI-Gulu ---11/19/2010 05:35:46 PM---Dear All, Thank you very much, for the enthusiasm showed in attending our last
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Sustainable Water Point Maintenance Meeting Minutes 18.11.10
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