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It Takes A Village: Our Steps to Clean Water Projects That Guarantee Success
- Assess the community’s need for water.
- Design and implement appropriate water projects based on a technical evaluation of the local conditions. We balance the need with what can be managed, maintained, and afforded by the community.
- Engage the community in design and cost-sharing. Each family registers as a member of the water project.
- Train the chairperson, treasurer, secretary, and operator of the Water Management Committee (WMC).
- Involve key stakeholders, especially women, through membership in WMCs. The heavy burden of chores and a male-dominated society have been barriers to women’s empowerment. WMC involvement encourages them to have a say in the management of the resource most important to them – water.
- Train Water Project Members in skills that will help them boost their family incomes, which supports a sustainable water supply.
- Visit the completed project to monitor impact and provide additional training as needed.
- Mentor water management leaders, resolve conflicts, and identify and solve problems.
What Sets Our WASH Projects Apart
While developing these water projects, a part of what we do includes developing the most fundamental resource across every community: people. With new responsibilities, leaders emerge. These leaders are mentored, enrolled in trainings, and supported as they develop skills to solve problems, build consensuses, and resolve conflicts. Though many adult men and women are illiterate, they have innate talents that are enhanced by our management theory. These skills are used to solve other community problems. As leaders teach others what they learned, entire communities are mobilized toward greater development.
Engaged Community Leadership
We provide annual trainings for WMCs at each borehole, but we stay in contact with these leaders throughout the year. After a project is handed over to the community, we support its leaders as they make difficult decisions.
