By Lahai Ensah Bunduka, National Project Coordinator, WASH self-supply, Sierra Leone. Prepared for the Monitoring sustainable WASH service delivery symposium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9-11 April 2013.

1. WASH Self-Supply Sierra Leone
Investing in household ownership and market-systems
for sustainable water supply and sanitation
Lahai Ensah Bunduka
National Project Coordinator
WASH self-supply, Sierra Leone
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2. Contents
 Rationale
 Principles:
Self-Supply, Added Value, Do- it-Yourself
 Intervention Approach
 Monitoring System:
market-based and household centered
 Challenges and Lessons Learned
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3. Rationale
 Poor water supply services
28.000 public water points mapped in Sierra Leone:
40% recorded to provide insufficient water
31% impaired and 17% broken
 High disease burden
August 2012 Sierra Leone hosted one of the most
dreadful cholera incidence worldwide- national
cumulative figures of 13,135 cases with 226 deaths
 Weak capacity and poorly funded councils and
MDAS to do effective monitoring and evaluation
 Need for user involvement in planning and
execution of monitoring approaches
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4. Water Self-Supply Ladder
Source-Sally Sutton RWSN
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5. Added-Value-Concept
Kitchen
Rain water
harvesting Latrine
Manual
pumping
of water
Farm-
Storage irrigation
tanks
Shower
room
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6. Do-it-Your-Self = Sustainability
Construction of pumps Construction of RWH gutters
Construction of toilet seats
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7. Intervention Approach
 Service Delivery
User at the heart of the approach to ensure quality service
delivery and sustainability
 Empowerment
The user is introduced to a self -supply scheme through a
short training that empowers him/ her to design an individual
system which meets his/her preferences using readily
available low cost materials
 Involvement of Private Sector
Supported by a network of area based entrepreneurs (private
sector), the user will be enabled to install his/her own system
and to conduct necessary repairs largely unassisted after a
couple of practices
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8. Monitoring System
PARTICIPATORY MONITORING 100%
Market-based Household-centered
Monitoring Monitoring
Innovative
Do it Yourself
Technologies
Strengthen Supply
Added-Value Concept
Side
Promotion/ Marketing/
Household Ownership
Quality Control
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9. Monitoring Tools
• Self appraisal check list
User design and
• Everyday comfort
ownership at
• exchange visits and
household level experience sharing
• Product display/ promotion
• Branding, labels, cost
Market driven quotation and effectiveness
• Market mechanism
• Quality control guidelines
WASH Cooperative • Water quality testing
• Field visit-service
(service provider) provider/user
• Learning/ Meetings
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10. User and Market Monitoring
Market
Driven
Sustainable
User WASH User
Managed Service Designed
Delivery
User
Investment
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11. Challenges of user-based monitoring system
 High time investment in planning and execution
 Low capacity of users to effectively learn system design and
adopt tools may slow down the process
 Culture of donor dependency in solving WASH problems
 Unclear policy, standards and regulations
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12. Lessons Learnt
 Monitoring and evaluation succeeds best where user participation is
highest
 Monitoring misunderstood as policing-may not help the process
 Monitoring information from community/household-based approaches
are not generally considered legitimate and therefore lack credence
 Right policy frame work is crucial for proper implemetation of
household/market based monitoring
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13. Contact
WASH@welthungerhilfe.de
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