COMMUNITY-LED ACCELERATED WASH (COWASH) PROJECT 2007 EFY ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT OF SNNPR. Prepared by: SNNPR RSU

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1 COMMUNITY-LED ACCELERATED WASH (COWASH) PROJECT 2007 EFY ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT OF SNNPR Prepared by: SNNPR RSU AUGUST, 2015

2 Table of Contents 1 Introduction Capacity building Physical capacity building Human capacity building Trainings Workshops and Review Meetings WaSH Facilities Construction & Rehabilitation Financial utilization Investment, some capacity & operational funds from GoE Allocated and Transferred Investment, Capacity Building and Operational Funds GoF Capacity Building Fund Major challenges faced and measures taken during in 2007 EFY i P a g e

3 1 INTRODUCTION Improving accessibility of water supply, sanitation and hygiene for every citizen of Ethiopia has been a top agenda in the country over the last decade and there have been committed efforts towards achieving the GTP 1 or universal access plan targets.. Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) is divided into 14 administrative zones, 22 town administrations, and 4 special Woredas (special districts). The number of woredas of the region accounts for 134. Under the Regional Water Resource Bureau, Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) Program has been implemented in different parts of the region. The need for potable water supply, sanitation and hygiene services is also increasing throughout the region. The Water Resource Bureau has been working closely with various stakeholders and partners to implement several WaSH activities in 70 woredas (districts) and 14 large and medium towns through financial support from various sources (Ethiopian Government, World Bank, DFID, African Development Bank and UNICEF) in the previous WASH program. Recently, the One WaSH National Program was planned to implement WaSH activities in 68 Woredas of the region (including 4 special Woredas) and 20 small towns. This shows that, despite the various implementation bottlenecks, the region has been trying hard to achieve the objective of improving access to sustainable water supply, sanitation and hygiene services for rural and urban population through improved capacity of the stakeholders in the WaSH sectors. Community-Led Accelerated WaSH (COWASH) project started in the region through financial support of the Finland Government (for capacity building & some operational costs), Regional, Zonal and Woreda governments (for investment, physical capacity building in some woredas and zones and some operational costs) and the community contribution (at least 15% by cash, 1 P a g e

4 material and/or labour). The project began its implementation in 2004 EFY in Arbaminch Zuria and Chencha Woredas in Gamogofa zone as pilot Woredas. In June 2015, these woredas are having projected total rural population of 205,204 and 131,497 respectively. In 2005 EFY, the project encompassed Hadiya Zone and 2 more woredas (Misha and Duna) in this zone. Last fiscal year (2006 EFY), the project expanded to 2 other zones (Sidama and Dawuro) and 4 woredas in these zones-arbegoan and Gorche Woredas in Sidama Zone and Tocha and Esara in Dawuro zone. In sum, to-date, COWASH has been supporting the improvement of access to WASH services in 4 zones and 8 woredas out of 14 zones and 134 woredas in the region. Among the project woredas, Misha has the least rural water supply access coverage (17.4%). On the other hand, Arbaminch Zuriya Woreda has the highest rural water supply access coverage (71%) at the end of 2007 EFY. The selection of Zones, Woredas and Kebeles for the project, among others, is undertaken mainly by considering level of the problem in terms of water supply and sanitation accesses as well as feasibility of low cost technology based water facilities in the area. The Woredas start the project with 5 Kebeles and continue by adding other new 5 Kebeles every fiscal year. Hence, there is a total number of 105 Kebeles supported by COWASH until the end of 2007 EFY and the number of CMP kebeles are expected to reach 145 in 2008 EFY. 2 P a g e

5 Table 1: Secondary Data on Water Supply Access Coverage, Sanitation Coverage and Institutional WaSH of Project Woredas Woreda Total no. of Rural Populatio n at the end of Sene (June) 2007 E.C Rural Water Supply Access Coverag e end of 2007 EFY Rural Water Supply Usage/Act ual coverage at end of 2007EFY Total number of schools at end of 2007EF Y Total Number of schools with Improved Water Supply at end of 2007EFY Total number of Helath Institutio ns at end of 2007 EFY Total number of Helath Institutions with Improved Water Supply at end of 2007 EFY Total number of schools with Improved /VIP/ latrine at end of 2007EFY Total number of Helath Institutions with Improved /VIP/ latrine at end of 2007EFY Proportio n of Rural Househol ds using Improved Sanitation Facilities end of 2007 EFY Proportion of Rural Households with Access to Sanitation Facilieties (Improved or unimproved) end of 2007 EFY Total Number of ODF Rural Kebeles end of 2007 EFY Total Number of ODF CMP Kebeles end of 2007 EFY Unit No. % % No. No. No. No. No. No. % % No. No. % A/Minch Zuria 205, (11 in 2006 EFY) Nonfunction ality Rate of Rural Water Supply Scheme s end of 2007 EFY 5 12 Chencha 131, (9 in 21 Misha 150, (25 in 41 (7 in (100 in 29 ( Duna 139, (8 EFY) in 2006EFY) EFY) 95 in Arbegona 2006 EFY) 19(8 in 1 (34 in 1(32 in * EFY) 2006 EFY) 2006 EFY) Gorche 132, Tocha 132, (33 in Isara 73, (13. 4(22 in in 2006 EFY) 3 P a g e

6 Table 1: continued Woreda Total no. of COWASH/CMP WPs Constructed for COMMUNITIES in the Woreda until end of No. of People Having Access to the Community WPs within 1.5km No. of People Using the Community WPs (Actual No. of Beneficiary Populaiton) Total no. of COWASH/CMP WPs Constructed for Schools in the Woreda until end of 2007 EFY Total no. of COWASH/CMP WPs Constructed for Health Faciliteis in the Woreda until end of Total no. of COWASH/CMP Ltrines Constructed for Schools in the Woreda until end of 2007 EFY Total no. of COWASH/CMP Latrines Constructed for Health Facilities in the Woreda until end of 2007 EFY A/Minch Unit No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Zuria Chencha Misha Duna Arbegona Gorche 24 6,750 11, Tocha Isara Total , , * In Arbegona Woreda, the total no. of schools with improved latrine at the end of 2006 EFY & total no. of health institutions with improved latrine at the end of 2006 EFY were wrongly reported to be 60 and 32 respectively. At the end of this fiscal year properly calculated to be 1 & 1 respectively. 4 P a g e

7 2 CAPACITY BUILDING 2.1 PHYSICAL CAPACITY BUILDING Since 2004 EFY, the COWASH project has built the physical (material procurement) and human (trainings, workshops, meetings, etc) capacities of the project woredas and zones in the region. In this respect, as part of physical capacity building efforts of the project, out of the ten desktop computers planned to be procured in 2007 EFY, four of them were rolled over from the preceding fiscal year. Accordingly, three desktop computers were procured by Tocha (1) and Esara(2) Woredas, which costed about Birr 37,430. In addition, 3 desktop computers were procured by Dawuro Zone water, Energy and mine (1) and Finance and Economic Development Departments (1) as well as Duna water, energy and mine office(1) in the fiscal year. Besides, 5 more computers were procured by Esara (4) and Arbaminch zuriya (1), which brought the total computers procured to 11 in 2007 EFY. Hence, the procurement of 110 % of the planned desktop computers was achieved in the reporting period. The number procured computers exceeds the planned computers as one more desktop computer was procured by Arbaminch zuriya by shifting the budget planned for LCD projector to this procurement. A total of Birr 96, was expended for this accomplishment. On top of this, 8 lap tops were also planned to be procured in this fiscal year by Esara (1), Gorche(1), Arbegona(1), Misha(1) and Duna (1) Woredas' water, mines and energy offices as well as RSU (1) and BoFED (2). Four laptops were also procured by Duna (2) Esara (1) and Gorche(1) Woredas, and four of them were procured by RSU (1), Dawuro Zone water, Energy and mine (1) and Finance and Economic Development Departments (1), Duna (1) in 2007 EFY. One laptop was also bought by Misha woreda in the fourth quarter of 2007 EFY. A total of 137, Birr was spent to procure these office materials. In sum, 112 % (as 1 unplanned laptop was procured by Duna) of the planned laptops were procured in the reporting period. Out of 14 printers planned to be procured in 2007 EFY, 16(114%) printers were procured in the reporting period. The printers were procured by Tocha (6), Esara(5), Dawuro zone water, energy and mine (1), Arbaminch Zuriya WWO (1), and Finance and Economic Development Departments (1) as well as Gorche (1) and Arbegona(1) woredas. The total cost of the printers amounted to Birr 94, In addition, 7 motorbikes planned to be procured in 2007 EFY. These motorbikes are for Tocha, Esara, Arbegona and Goriche Woredas, 2 for each, except Arbegona which planned to procure only one. Accordingly, eight (114%) motorbikes were procured for Arbegona (1), 5 P a g e

8 Tocha (1), Gorche (1), Tocha (3) and Essara (2) Woredas' water, mines and energy offices in the reporting period with a total cost of 379, Birr. In this respect, Tocha Woreda procured two more small motorbikes using the leftover budget for the procurement of the unplanned motorbikes. Five 5 photocopy machines, 3 of them rolled over from 2006 EFY, were planned to be procured by Tocha (1), Esara (1), Gorche (1) and Arbegona (1) Woredas and Dawuro zone (1). Accordingly, 5 (100%) photocopy machines were procured by all Woredas with a total cost of Birr 141, Also, 12 digital cameras were planned to be procured in the reporting period, 9 of them were rolled over from 2006 EFY plans of Misha, Duna, Gorche, Esara and Tocha Woredas, Dawuro, and Hadiya zones, RSU, BoFED and the other three were planned to be procured by Arbegona Woreda, Sidama zone and BoE. Eight (66.7%) digital cameras were procured by Duna, Gorche and Esara, Misha and Tocha Woreda water, energy and mine office, one for each, with a total cost of Birr 47, during the same period. Five artisan's tools were planned to be procured by Tocha(1), Duna (1), Esara (1), Gorche(1) and Arbegona(1) Woredas this fiscal year. Accordingly, Tocha, Gorche and Arbegoa Woredas procured 3 (60%) of the artisan tools, one for each, with a total cost of Birr 85, In addition, all woredas except Tocha, Arbegona and Gorche re-planned to procure 5 water quality test kits (as they were rolled over from 2006 EFY) in 2007 EFY. These kits were not procured by any of the project woredas during the previous fiscal years due to inadequacy of the planned budget for the kits and inability of the woredas to get a supplier for single kit as each woreda tried to advertise bids individually. To this end, as per the action plan devised to boost project performance in the region after the RWSC meeting held on December 2, 2014, these 5 kits were decided to be procured in bulk by Water Resource Bureau. Accordingly, agreement has been signed between the Water Resource Bureau and the supplier of the kits, which are expected to be delivered in the coming months. Four large diameter molds rolled over from 2006 EFY were re-planned to be procured in this fiscal year for Esara and Tocha Woredas, 2 for each. However, only Tocha woreda water, energy and mine office accomplished the procurement of 2(50%) large diameter molds in the reporting period with a total cost of Birr. Esara woreda has found large diameter molds irrelevant as the Woreda is giving emphasis on spring development and hence, canceled procuring these molds. Rather the woreda is on the process of shifting the budget to more appropriate material procurement after WWT approval. Likewise, 32 small diameter molds rolled over from 2006 EFY plans of Esara (10), Tocha (10), Chencha (6) and Arbaminch Zuriya (6) Woredas were re-planned to be procured in 6 P a g e

9 2007 EFY. However, only 16 (50%) of them were accomplished with a total cost of Birr 156,100 by Arbaminch zuriya, Chencha and Tocha Woredas. The procurement of one Double Cabin Toyota Pickup car for the RSU was rolled over from 2006 EFY plan and re-planned to be procured in 2007 EFY. However, its procurement was not accomplished during the reporting period due to a lengthy procurement process involved. In order to speed up the ongoing car procurement, as per the action plan devised following the decision of the RWSC meeting held on December 2,2014, it has been included into the first possible bulk car procurement of the region. To this end, an agreement has been signed between the Water Resource Bureau and the supplier of the car. Finally, the procurements of all of the equipments such as colour printer (1), external hard disk (1), and office furniture (2) flash disks (3) were also accomplished for RSU in the reporting period with a total cost of 29, Birr. In sum, types of materials and equipments (around 171 in quantity) were planned to be procured in 2007 EFY and 133 of them were already procured, which is 78.4% of achievement (Table 1). A total of Birr 4,721, was expended for building the physical capacity of the WASH sectors at regional, zonal and woreda levels. 7 P a g e

10 Table 1: Summary of Materials Planned and Procured in 2007EFY S/NMaterial or Equipment Unit Quantity Planned 4th Quarte Annual r 4th Quarte r Annu al 1 Desktop C omputer No ,212 2 Laptop C omputer No ,537 3 Printer No Photocopy Machine No LC D Projector No ,686 6 Scanner No. 0 2 o Digital C amera No ,270 8 File cabinet No ,947 9 Motorbike No ,579 Dawuro zone WO &FO; Tocha WWO & WEO ; Esara WWO & Duna WWO RSU;Tocha, Gorche & Duna WWOs; Dawuro Zone WO;Arbegona WWO Dawuro Zone water dep't and ZFO;Tocha WWO,WEO &WFEDO,EsaraWWO Tocha, Gorche & Esara WWOs;Dawuro zone WO; Arbegona WWO Dawuro zone WO; Duna WWO M isha, Duna, Gorche &Esara WWO; Tocha WWO;Dawuro zone WO;Arbegona WWO RSU, Arbegona WWO;Gcrche WWO;Tocha WWO; Esara WWO Arbegona WWO;Tocha, Gorche & Esara WWOs 10 Large diameter mol No ,800 Tocha WWO Q3 11 Small diameter mol No ,080 Chencha WWO & Tocha WWO 12 C hain block No ,900 Chencha WWO Q2 13 Artisan tools Set Water quality test kits No Stabilizers No ,665 16,245 Gorche WWO;Arbegona WWO;Tocha Wwo Chencha, A/Zuriya,M isha, Duna & Esara WWO Tocha WWO,WFO,WHO,WEO;Daw uro Zone Water and Finance 16 Fax machine No ,638 M isha WWO 17 GPS 18 Spring dev't tools Quantity Procured No No Total Cost (in Birr) 20,720 44,000 Beeficiary Office/s WWO;Chencha nd M isha WWO Chencha & Gorche Tocha WWO 18 External haed disk No ,782 RSU 19 C DMA No RSU 20 Office furniture No ,900 RSU 21 Double Cabin Toyot No ,470,000 Procured 22 C olour Printer No ,250 RSU 23 Flash Disk No RSU Total 4,721,666 Remark Dawuro Zone WO &FO; Duna procured one desktop in third quarter Arbegona WWO;Tocha procured in the third Gorche WWO;Arbegona WWO;Dawuro procured the machine in third quarter procured in the third quarter Dawuro, Arbegona &Tocha procured in the third quarter RSU, Arbegona &Esara procured in the third quarter Arbegona WWO proc Tocha procured in the Gorche WWO;Arbegona WWO procured in Procured i Dawuro Zone Water and Finance department procured in the third quarter Gorche WWO procured in the The procurement of 1 external hard disk, has been cancelled 8 P a g e

11 2.2 HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING The accomplishments in trainings, workshops and meetings of the project are presented and illustrated as follows Trainings The project has been working hard to build the human capacity of the region, zones and woredas. In view of that, a number of trainings were planned in 2007 EFY. To begin with, it was planned to give CMP management training for 135 ZWT, WWT and Woreda CMP appraisal team members on CMP management in the second quarter of 2007 EFY. CMP promotion, application, appraisal and M&E training for CMP appraisal team members (52 trainees), WASHCO (48 trainees) TOT in CMP management were also planned to be held in the second quarter of 2007 EFY. However, these trainings were not conducted the reporting period. This was due to the fact that priority was given to construction activities and these refresher trainings will be planned to be conducted in the first quarter of the upcoming fiscal year. Likewise, ToT training on GLOWS/WSP for Woreda technical staffs were planned to be conducted in 2007 EFY. Even though, initially this training was intended and approved to be provided for all project woredas, latter it was decided to make it in one selected woreda. The training could not be implemented due to some preparatory activities expected from the project federal office. Duna woreda is now selected for the piloting of WSP in the region and the training will be included in the 2008 EFY annual plan of the region. Moreover, COWASH financial management training was also planned to be given for 52 zonal and woreda finance offices' technical staffs. This training was accomplished by BoFED financial experts for 45 (10 females) Woreda and zonal COWASH financial focal persons and woreda microfinance representatives, which accounts 86.5% achievement of the plan. On the other hand, TOT training on operation and maintenance for 26 zonal and woreda technical staffs was planned to be given in 2007 EFY. This training was conducted in collaboration with COWASH FTAT for 28 (1 female) zonal and woreda technical staffs for three days during the reporting period with a total cost of Birr, 64, In addition, WaSHCO CMP management training was planned to be conducted in 2007 EFY to 2,692 members of WASHCOs. To this end, the project woredas trained 1522 (749 females) members of WASHCOs in the same period, which is 56.5% achievement. The total cost spent for this training adds up to Birr 745, Likewise, KWT CMP promotion and appraisal training was planned to be given for 429 KWT members until end of 2007 EFY. This training was conducted by all of the project woredas for 444(161 females) KWT (103%) members and other Kebele level agents in the same period with a total cost of Birr 376, The woredas included more agents such as kebele level 9 P a g e

12 saving agents and women affairs agents who would support the promotion activities that made the accomplishment to exceed the plan. Moreover, WASHCO training in scheme management for 1,460 WASHCO members was planned to be conducted in 2007 EFY. Accordingly, the training was given to 948 (436 females) WASHCO members by Gorche, Duna, Misha, Chencha, Arbaminch Zuriya and Esara woredas with a total cost of Birr 502, WASHCOs training in O & M for old water points was planned for 800 WASHCO members. Four hindered fifteen (182 females)washco members in Chencha, Duna, Esara and Arbaminch zuriya Woredas have received this training with a total expense of Birr 267, The project Woredas also planned to provide training on CLTSH for 785 Kebele trainees, who are Kebele level experts, in 2007 EFY. This training was given to 784 trainees (345 female) by Arbaminch Zuriya, Chencha, Duna and Gorche Woredas during the same period with a total cost of 452, Birr, which is 99.8% achievement of the plan. WASHCO CMP implementation management refresher training was planned to be given for 1,095 WASHCO members in 2007 EFY. This training was given to 510 (220 females) by Duna, Chencha and Esara Woredas with an outlay of Birr 80, Chencha Woreda planned to provide water quality testing training for 266 WASHCO members. Consequently, the woreda experts trained 103 (50 females) WASHCO members (50%) for four days with a total cost of about Birr 84, Likewise, KWT gender awareness & mainstreaming training was planned to be provided for 605 KWT members in 2007 EFY. However, the training was given to 683 (365 females) KWT members (112%) by the project woredas, with a total cost of Birr 227, Finally, training for new pump attendants and caretakers was planned to be given for 858 trainees in 2007 EFY. This training was given to 299 (120 females) pump attendants and caretakers (34.8 %) with a total cost of about Birr 176, by Chencha, Duna, Arbaminch Zuriya and Gorche woredas in the reporting period. In all, out of 19 types of trainings planned to be conducted in 2007 EFY at regional, zonal and woreda levels, about 15 of them (78.9 %) were accomplished in the same period. To this end, about Birr 3,601, was expended to materialize the human capacity building at all levels in the region (Table 2). 10 P a g e

13 Table 2: Trainings planned and achieved in 2007 EFY S/ N Type of Training CMP Management Training for ZWT, WWT & appraisal 1 team CMP Promotion, Application, Appraisal & M&E Training 2 for CMP appraisal team Responsible body/trainer No. of Trainees Planned Annual 4th Quarter 4th Quarter Number Trained M F T M F T COWASH FTAT & RSU COWASH FTAT & RSU Annual No. of Days Trained Estimated cost of training (in Birr) 3 WaSHCO ToT in CMP Management COWASH FTAT & RSU O & M ToT trainig for zonal &Woreda technical staffs COWASH FTAT & RSU ,208 4 ToT Training in Water Safety Planning/GLOWS RSU Financial management & Utilization training for Zonal & Woreda technical staff. BoFED ,467 8 CLTSH ToT Training (for Woreda & Zone staff) BoH WASHCO Training in Scheme Management WWO 1, to 4 502,824 The Dun 7 Pump attendants & care takers Refreshment Training WWO ,500 cond 9 CLTSH Training for Kebele Level Experts W HO ,069 cond chen 10 KWT CM P Promotion & Appraisal Training WWO to 4 376,095 Cen A/Zu by E 11 WASHCO CMP Management Training WWO 2, to 5 745,413 Dun 12 WASHCO CMP Management refreshment Training WWO 1, to5 80, WASHCOs training in O & M for old WPS-referesher WWO , New artisans Training WWO to45 397, Refreshment training for old artisans WWO , by C 16 Pump Attendants & Caretakers Training WWO to 5 176,340 The Wo r 17 Kebele strategic plan in 5 kebeles per Woreda WWO ,000 Chen 18 WASHCOs GLOWS/WSP Training WWO KWT gender awareness & mainstreaming Training WWAO ,440 cond Q2), 20 Training of WASHCOs in Water Quality WWO ,964 Chen Total 10,417 2,236 1,831 1,459 3,290 3,358 2,6 82 6,040 3,6 01, P a g e

14 2.2.2 Workshops and Review Meetings Workshops and meetings are considered as one capacity building mechanism of the project. Cognizant of this fact, COWASH spends quite a lot of budget for such kinds of capacity building activities in the woredas and regional level. Annual review of 2006 EFY performance and 2007 EFY planning Workshop was planned to be undertaken with the participation of 117 people drawn from woreda, zone and regional sector offices.. In this respect, so as to identify structural challenges of project implementation that resulted for low project performance in the region and thereby to address them in the 2007 EFY planning, the RSU has reviewed, evaluated and planned the 2006 EFY performances and 2007 EFY plan respectively with each ZWT and WWT of intervention zones and woredas. Hence, the review was conducted late in the reporting period together with the 2008 EFY core plan with the participation of 92(78.6%) (7 females). This was done with the view to ensuring experiential learning among project woredas and zones as well as to aware the need for timely preparation for 2008 EFY planning. Some Birr 203, was spent for this review and planning workshop. Regarding workshops and review meetings at zonal and woreda levels, only few project woredas organized them until the end of the reporting period. Accordingly, annual review of 2006 EFY performances and Planning Workshop for 2007EFY plan were conducted by Esara and Tocha Woredas for one to three days with a total cost of Birr 87, The total participants were 286 (133 females). In addition, whole system in the Room (WSR) workshop was conducted by Duna, Tocha, Esara and Chencha Woredas' health offices with 302 participants (100 females) for 2 to 5 days in 2007 EFY. The cost of the workshop amounted to about Birr 208, P a g e

15 Table 3: Workshops & Review meetings planned and achieved in 2007 EFY S/ N Type of Workshop/Meeting Organizer No. of Participants Planned This Quarter Annual Number Attended 4th Quarter Annual M F T M F T No. of Workshop Days Total Cost of Workhop/Mee ting (in Birr) Remark 1 Three years' COWASH Review meeting and discussion on 2008 EFY Core plan RSU , Annual Review and Planning Workshop WWO to4 87, Esara in first qarter; Tocha in Q3, 3 Awareness Raising Workshop to Private Sector on the Availability of Market Opportunities , Esara conducted in the third qarter; 4 COWASH Zonal Quarterly Review Meeting with Woredas Whole System in the Room (WSR) Workshop WWO to 5 208, Duna in first quarter; Tocha&Esara in Q3; Chencha in 4th Q 6 Woreda Cabinet Briefing meeting WWO , Chencha and Tocha in Q4 Total , P a g e

16 3 WASH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION & REHABILITATION In 2007 EFY, a total of water points were planned to be constructed in the project woredas of SNNPR. There has been encouraging progress in terms of improving construction performances by all COWASH project woredas. From these planned water points, a total of 340 water points (327 for community, 2 for health institutions and 11 for schools) were completed in the reporting period. Among the completed water points 331 and 9 of them are on spot springs and hand dug wells respectively. The worda distribution shows that, out of the 340 water points completed, 55 were constructed in Duna, 67 in Misha, 50 in Chencha and 53 in Arbaminch Zuria, 24 in Gorche, 40 in Tocha, 12 in Arbegona and 39 in Essara Woredas. This shows that, out of the 449 Water points planed to be constructed in 2007 EFY, 75.7% of them was achieved in the reporting period. As a result of this achievement, more than 125,759 rural people, 2,462 students and teachers are benefiting from these constructed water points. This brings the cumulative water points constructed in the region with the support of COWASH to 520 of which 496, 19 and 5 of them are community, school and health water points, respectively. A total of 182,210 rural people, 9,571 students and teachers and 874 health staff and some clients of the health facilities are benefiting from the communal, school and health facilities' water points constructed with the support of COWASH. As can be understood from the above information, institutional WASH has been poorly performing over the project implementation period. Particularly, it is the least for the health institutions though these institutions in the region are devoid of improved water supply. Needless to say, this further undermines the functionality of the physically existing latrine buildings. Hence, this poor performance of the institutional water supply has compounded adverse effects, among others, on hygiene and sanitation aspects. In addition, various field level evaluations conducted by the RSU staffs during the fiscal year has also revealed that CMP is recognized as an effective approach that maximizes participation and creates ownership at the community level. In this respect, to the extent possible WASHCOs have been capacitated to manage the whole process of project implementation. Moreover, the gender dimension has been also addressed by all project woredas via training and quota system. Data of the WPs constructed in the woredas reveal that 63.0% of the WASHCOs have 3 women members and 85.1% of the WASHCOs have 2 or more women members. All of the COWASH/CMP WPs constructed until the end of the reporting period in the woredas are 1 33 WPs are new additions from A/Zuriya (16) and Chencha (17) as theses woredas have revised their plans by incorporating those WPs rolled over from 2006 EFY to 2007 EFY annual plan 14 P a g e

17 functional. As far as rehabilitation of WPs is concerned, 37 water points to be rehabilitated were rolled over from 2006 EFY and re-planned to be implemented by all project woredas except Arbegona and Gorche woredas in this fiscal year. However, only 24 (64.9%) of them have been accomplished by Chencha (6), Misha (6), Tocha (2) and Esara (10) in 2007 EFY. COWASH is also focusing on sanitation and hygiene. Fourteen school latrines were planned to be constructed by Chencha (2), Arabaminch Zuriya(2), Misha (2), Duna(2), Tocha (2), Esara (2), Arbegona (1) and Gorche (1) Woredas in 2007 EFY. However, only 2(14.3%) of them were constructed by Chencha and Duna Woredas in the reporting period. This brings the total number of school latrines constructed with the support of COWASH to four over the course of four years project implementation period. This low performance of construction of latrines compared to WPS, is partly explained by weak inter-sectoral integration in general and lack of ownership of the project by education offices to facilitate its timely implementations. 15 P a g e

18 Table 4: Summary of water supply schemes planned, applied & approved in 2007 EFY A. Community Water Points HDW with RP <50% >50% Total HDW SPD SW DW SPD-RPS 0 0 Subtotal B. Institutional Water Points B.1 School Water Points HDW with RP HDW SPD SW DW RWH Subtotal B.2 Health Institutions Water Points HDW with RP HDW SPD SW DW Type of Water Point(WP) RWH No. of Planned WPs to be constructed in 2007EFY No. of WPs Applications made No. of WPs Applications Desk Appraised No. of WPs Application Field Appraised No. of WPs Applications Approved by WWT No. of WPs Not Started Construction No. of WPs under construction Subtotal Total No. of WPs Abandoned (could not be constructed) unplanned but constrcted unplanned but constructed 16 P a g e

19 Table 5: Summary of water supply schemes planned and constructed in 2007 EFY. Type of Water Point(WP) No. of WPs Planned to be 4th Constructed Annual Q uarter No. of WPs Construction 4th Completed Annual Q uarter Actual No of People Using the Completed WPs No. of People Having Access to the CO MPLETED WPs with in 1.5km radius of the WPs A. Community Water Points HDW with RP HDW ,901 1,742 SPD ,823 65,267 SW DW SPD RPS , Subtotal ,759 67,913 B. Institutional Water Points B.1 School Water Points HDW with RP HDW , SPD SW DW RWH Subtotal , B.2 Health Institutions Water Points HDW with RP HDW SPD 2-0 SW DW RWH Subtotal Total , Remark unplanned but constructed 17 P a g e

20 Table 6: Summary of Water Suply Schemes Constructed by COWASH until end of the Reporting Period (2004 EFY_2007 EFY) Year of Construction HDW with RP HDW SPD SW DW RWH RPS HDW from SP Total with RP HDW SPD SW DW RWH RPS from SP Total HDW with RP HDW SPD SW DW RWH RPS from SP Total A EFY A.1 Community WPs A.2 School WPs A.3 Health Facilities WPs Subtotal B. 2005EFY B.1 Community WPs ,615 22, ,020 16, B.2 School WPs , B.3 Health Facilities WPs Subtotal C. 2006EFY C.1 Community WPs ,946 24, ,056 20, C.2 School WPs ,585 1, C.3 Health Facilities WPs Subtotal , D. 2007EFY D.1 Community WPs , , , , D.2 School WPs , D.3 Health Facilities WPs Subtotal , E. 2004_2007 EFY E.1 Community WPs , , , , , , ,029 E.2 School WPs ,715 2, , E.3 Health Facilities W Total , , ### 192, , , ,029 Total Number of COWASH/CMP Water Points Non-Functional in the COWASH Woredas = 0 18 P a g e

21 Table 7: WASHCO and Water Quality Related Data (For COWASH/CMP Water Points Only) S/ n 1 Indicator/Type of Data Required Total number of (community + institutional) WASHCOs of WPs constructed with the support of COWASH (1a + 1b +1c) EFY Until end of 2005 EFY Until end of 2006 EFY Until end of 2007 EFY a Total Number of WASHCOs of community WPs constructed with the support of COWASH b Total Number of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) of school WPs constructed with the support of COWASH c Total Number of Health Committees of health institutions WPs constructed with the support of COWASH a Total number of COWASH CMP Schemes (community + institutional) with trained pump attendants & caretakers(2a + 2b +2c) Total number of Community COWASH CMP Water Supply Schemes with trained pump attendants or caretakers b Total number of School COWASH CMP Water Supply Schemes with trained pump attendants or caretakers c 3 Total number of Health Institutions COWASH CMP Water Supply Schemes with trained pump attendants or caretakers Total number of WASHCOs (of community WPs constructed with the support of COWASH) with at least 50% women members Total number of water quality tests made on COWASH Community CMP water supply schemes (post construction period) Total number of chlorinations made on COWASH Community CMP water supply schemes (post construction period) P a g e

22 Table 8: Summary of water supply schemes planned and rehabilitated in 2007 EFY Annual A. Community Water Points HDW with RP 4th Quarter 4th Quarter Annual HDW ,904 3,950 SPD ,908 2,390 SW DW SPD-RPS - Subtotal ,812 6,340 B. Institutional Water Points B.1 School Water Points HDW with RP HDW SPD SW DW RWH Subtotal B.2 Health Institutions Water Points HDW with RP - HDW SPD Type of Water Point(WP) Number of WPs planned to be Rehabilitated Number of WPs rehabilitation Completed SW - DW - RWH - Actual No of People Using the Completed WPs No of People having access to the Completed WPs within 1.5KM radius of the WPs Subtotal Total ,812 6,340 Remark (including Rolled over) Chenche rehabilitated six 20 P a g e

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24 Table 9: Summary of Water Suply Schemes Rehabilitated by COWASH until end of the Reporting Period (2004 EFY_2007 EFY) A EFY A.1 Community WPs 0 0 A.2 School WPs 0 0 A.3 Health Facilities WPs 0 0 B. 2005EFY Subtotal B.1 Community WPs B.2 School WPs 0 0 B.3 Health Facilities WPs 0 0 Subtotal C.2006 EFY C.1 Community WPs , , C.2 School WPs 0 - C.3 Health Facilities WPs 0 - Subtotal D.2007 EFY D.1 Community WPs , , D.2 School WPs 0 - D.3 Health Facilities WPs 0 - Subtotal , , E. 2004EFY_2007 EFY) E.1 Community WPs ,397 7, ,635-8,214 3, E.2 School WPs E.3 Health Facilities WP Grand total ,397 7, ,635-8,214 3, P a g e

25 Table 10: Institutional Latrines Construction in 2007 EFY Institution No. of Latrines Planned to be Constructed 4th Quarter Annual No. of Latrines Construction Completed 4th Quarter Estimated No. of People Benefiting from the Completed Latrine Annual Male Female Total A. School , ,845 Remark Constructed by Chencha and Duna B. Health Institution Total (A+B) , ,845 Table 11: Summary of Institutional Latrines Planned, Applications submitted and Approved in 2007 EFY Institution No. of Planned Latrines No. of Latrines Applications made No. of Latrines Applications Desk Appraised No. of Latrines Application Field Appraised No. of Latrines Applications Approved by WWT No. of Latrines under construction <50% >50% Total A. Schools B. Health Institutions Total (A+B) Table 12: Summary of Institutional Latrines Constructed by COWASH until end of the Reporting Period (2004EFY 207 EFY) Male Female Total A EFY A.1 School Latrines A.2 Health Facilities Latrines B. 2005EFY Subtotal B.1 School Latrines B.2 Health Facilities Latrines C.2006 EFY Subtotal C.1 School Latrines C.2 Health Facilities Latrines D EFY Subtotal ,636 D.1 School Latrines ,645 D.2 Health Facilities Latrines Subtotal ,645 E. 2004EFY_ 2007 EFY Constructed D.1 School Latrines 4 1,683 1,598 3,281 D.2 Health Facilities Latrines Grand total 4 1,683 1,598 3, P a g e

26 4 FINANCIAL UTILIZATION COWASH Project is jointly financed by regional government of SNNPR (GoE) and Government of Finland (GoF) and is implemented by WASH sector offices of Water Resource Bureau (BoW), woreda sector offices of SNNPR with collaboration of sector Bureaus (Health Bureau, BoH, Education Bureau, BoE and Finance and Economic Development Bureau, BoFED). The three major cost categories of the project fund are Investment, Capacity building (physical and human) and Operational cost. While the whole investment costs and some physical capacity and operational costs of the project are covered by the regional government, capacity building and some operational costs are covered by the Finnish government contribution. 4.1 INVESTMENT, SOME CAPACITY & OPERATIONAL FUNDS FROM GOE The funds from regional, zones and woredas of SNNP region is for the activities: i) construction of water schemes (communal and institutional) and institutional latrines; ii) rehabilitation of water supply schemes; and iii) physical capacity buildings (for new zones and new woredas). Moreover, some fund is allocated from the regional government to cover operational costs such as communication, supervision of water schemes, fuel and maintenance of vehicles, motorbikes and office equipments, etc Allocated and Transferred Investment, Capacity Building and Operational Funds In 2007 EFY, the regional government has allocated Birr 30,133,464 for investment, some physical capacity building and operational costs. The breakdown of investment, physical capacity building and operational costs for the project woredas and regional sector bureaus and amount transferred and utilized are indicated in the following tables. In this respect, GoE operational budget was not allocated for regional level BoE and BoH due to budget shortage. Sidama zone has not used any allocated budget as its bank account was opened at the end of fourth quarter of 2007 EFY. On the other hand, about 84% of GoE investment fund transferred to project Woredas was utilized in 2007 EFY. As can be seen in the Table 14 below, Chencha reported the highest utilization rate as against the annual plan (99.0%) and Arbegona reported the least utilization rate (28.0%). Arbegona has shown the lowest financial utilization performance as it has started implementing the construction activities in the third quarter of 2007 EFY. Regarding to GoE physical capacity building budget utilization, the annual expenditures of 24 P a g e

27 Tocha woreda and Dawuro zone were greater than their annual plan as they have used a budget left over from the previous fiscal year. As can be seen in table 13 below, the financial utilization rate in the fourth quarter of the reporting period was much higher than the one planned for the same quarter. For instance, the human capacity building fund utilization rate for the fourth quarter of 2007 EFY was % of the planned one for the same quarter as woredas conducted majority of the trainings planned for the reporting period in this quarter. In the same vein, regarding the GoE investment budget utilization rate (632.2%), most of the payments for the artisans were paid in the fourth quarter of the reporting period even for those constructions completed earlier, which made the utilization rate for this quarter greater than its plan. The overall finical in terms of budget utilization rate to date has been 81.2% of both GoE and GoF budget transferred. In this respect, the delay in the approval of the 2007 EFY annual plans has delayed the timely transfer of the funds and utilizations which has in turn negatively affected its performance. Moreover, majority of the refresher trainings, planned for the reporting period, at all levels were not conducted. Priority has been given to construction activities and this has contributed for low budget utilization performances. The GoF fund of the fourth quarter of 2007 EFY was transferred by the end of the fiscal year and has not been utilized yet, which has contributed for low financial performance. 25 P a g e

28 Table 13: COWASH Funds Utilization Performance in 2007 EFY Category INVESTM ENT COST PHYSICA L CAPACIT Y BUILDING HUM AN CAPACIT Y BUILDING COST OPERATI ONAL COST Planned for Utilized 4th Planned(Annual) Cumulative Planned Cumulative Utilized 4th Quarter Quarter Utilization(%) (14 +17) (15+18 ) GoF GoE Total (1+2 ) GoF GoE GoF+GoE GoF GoE GoF+GoE GoF + GoE GoF + GoE Cumulative ( 9 / 6 ) *10 0 4th Quarter (11/ 10 ) * 10 0 Planned for 4th Quarter Utilized 4th Quarter Planned for 4th Quarter - 27,192,766 27,192,766-27,192,766 27,192,766 ###### 13,943,468 1,040,521 7,959, # DIV/0! 1,040,521 7,959, ,866,150 1,744,855 5,611,005 3,866,150 1,744,885 5,611,035 3,661,565 1,386,206 5,047, , # DIV/0! - 264,951 # DIV/0! - 471,589 # DIV/0! 11,217,561-11,217,561 11,217,561-11,217,561 5,439,380 5,439, ,269 2,964, ,269 2,964, # DIV/0! 2,140,296 1,195,843 3,336,139 2,140,296 1,195,843 3,336,139 1,709, ,433 2,131, , , , , , , Utilized 4th Quarter Utilization (%) ( 15/ 14 ) * GoF GoF 10 0 GoE GoE Utilization (%) ( 18 / 17) *1 00 TOTAL 17,224,007 30,133,464 47,357,471 17,224,007 30,133,494 47,357,501 10,810,087 15,752,107 26,562,194 2,675,078 12,401, ,307,433 3,755, ,367,645 8,645, Total in Euro (1 Euro = 22 Birr) 782,909 1,369,703 2,152, ,909 1,369,704 2,152, , ,005 1,207, , , , , , , P a g e

29 Table 14: GoE Investment Fund Transfer and Utilization in 2007 EFY Project Woreda Planned for 2007 EFY 2007 EFY Transfer Utilization Rate of utliztatiion as per transfer Rate of utilization as per plan A/minch Zuria Chencha Duna Misha Gorche Arbegona Tocha 3,909,779 1,936,688 2,331, ,223,596 1,597,112 2,209, ,209,939 3,059,482 2,801, ,022,728 2,656,224 2,350, ,336,840 1,115, , , , , ,456,297 2,644,002 1,467, Esara 5,119,463 2,401,900 1,513, Commission (3%) 0 485, , Total (in birr) 27,192,767 16,658,095 13,943, Total (in euro) (1Euro =22 1,236, , , P a g e

30 Table 14.1: GoE Physical Capacity Building Fund allocated (for new woredas & new Zones) Transfer and Utilization in 2007 EFY Project Woreda & Zones Planned for 2007 EFY 2007 EFY Transfer Utilized in 2007 EFY Rate of utilization (6/3)*100 Gorche 148,710 47,750 89, Arbegona 150, , , Tocha 519,750 36, , Esara 745, , , Sidama Zone 66, Dawuro Zone 114,000 31, , Total (in birr) 1,744, ,425 1,417, Total (in euro) (1Euro =22 Birr) 79, , , P a g e

31 Table 16: GoE Operational fund utilized in 2007EFY Region, Zones & Woredas Regional Bureaus: Annual plan for 2007 EFY Transfer in 2007EFY Utilization Rate of utilization (4/2)*100 WRB BoH BoE BoFED RSU Gamogofa Zone Hadiya Zone Sidama Zone Dawuro Zone A/minch Zuriya woreda C hencha woreda Duna woreda Misha woreda Gorche woreda Arbegona woreda Tocha woreda Esara woreda Total in Birr Total in euro (1Euro=22 Birr) 53,000 24,000 53, ,600 31,067 16, , ,156 9, , , , , ,457 58,637 22, ,435 42,728 26, ,015 35,474 31, ,136 38,936 33, ,714 55,171 16, ,935 36,244 10, ,778 27, ,758 39,989 39, ,091 38,097 44, ,195, , , ,357 30,848 19, P a g e

32 4.2 GOF CAPACITY BUILDING FUND Table 17: GoF Capacity building fund utilization in 2007EFY S/N 1 Implementers 2007 EFY Annual Plan 2007 EFY Transfer 2007 EFY Utilization Rate of utilization as per 1.1 Water Bureau 1,073,826 1,073, , Health Bureau 218, , Education Bureau 17, BoFED 177,650 61, , RSU 3,784, ,600 3,096, ,271,762 ####### ######### Gamogofa 104,775 75,303 37, Hadiya 140,469 51,611 51, Sidama 71, dawuro 62,283 35,366 35, Regional Sector Offices Subtotal Zones Subtotal Woredas 378, , , Arbaminch Zuria 1,889,748 1,000,162 1,140, C hencha 1,798, ,954 1,213, Duna 1,725, ,383 1,513, Misha 1,672, ,272 1,294, Gorche 925, , , Arbegona 626, , , Tocha 1,325, , , Esara 1,407, , , Subtotal Total in birr Total in Euro (1 Euro =24birr) 11,371,714 6,471,715 6,977, ,022,007 8,705,557 ######### , , , P a g e

33 Table 18: Total fund received and utilized to date in SNNP region, by fund source. Budge t Source Received from Source to date Transferred to Beneficiarie s to date Utilized by Beneficiaries to date Balance from Received to date Usage from Receive d (%) Transferre d (%) GoF 25,743, ,782, ,235, ,960, GoE 35,116, ,924, ,822, ,191, Total 60,859, ,706, ,058, ,152, Total exchange rate gains from EFY Birr 2,106, Total amount of unutilized exchange rate gains from EFY = Birr 1,441, Total amount of funds leftover from 2007 EFY (GoF & GoE) = 1,960, GoF & GoE Birr 2,191, Annex 5.3: Fund Transfer Request, CMP Audit and WASHCO Fund Utilization to Date S/N Indicator/Type of Data Required Unit 2004 EFY Number of Fund Transfer Requests submitted to Embassy of Finland Number of BoFED CMP Audit Reports Produced and submitted to Embassy of Finland Amount of Innvestment Funds Transferred to WASHCOs (in Birr) Amount of Investment Funds Settled by WASHCOs (in Birr) Until end of 2005 EFY Until end of 2006 EFY No No Birr 692,653 5,622,716 8,578,781 Birr 692,653 4,597,423 8,294,971 Until end of 2007 EFY 25,436,876 22,238, Note: - Cumulative figures will be filled under the Until end of 2005 EFY, Until end of 2006 EFY & Until end of 2007 EFY columns of the table. Example in S/n 3, amount of funds transferred/released to WASHCO in 2004 EFY are added to 2005 EFY transfers and 2004 EFY and 2005 EFY transfers are added to those transferred in 2006 EFY. - This table should be filled at the regional level by RSU Financial Specialist, based on WASHCO Investment Fund Settlement and BoFED reports. 31 P a g e

34 5. Frequency of meetings of RWSC, ZWT and WWT on COWASH issues 5.1 WWT Meetings on COWASH Issues S/N Name of Project Woreda No. of times the WWT met & discussed on COWASH issues in the Fiscal Year How many of the WWT meetings held on COWASH issues have signed Minutes of Meetings? 1 Chencha Arbaminch Zuriya Misha Duna Esara Tocha Gorche Arbegona ZWT Meetings on COWASH S/N Name of Project Zone No. of times the ZWT met & discussed on COWASH issues in the Fiscal Year How many of the ZWT meetings held on COWASH issues have signed Minutes of Meetings? 1 Gamogofa Hadiya Dawro Sidama Regional WaSH Steering Committee (RWSC) Meetings on COWASH S/N Name of Region No. of times the RWC met & discussed on COWASH issues in the Fiscal Year How many of the RWSC meetings held on COWASH issues have signed Minutes of Meetings? 1 SNNPR Activities accomplished by RSU in 2007 EFY: Assisted the project woredas and zones in preparing reports 32 P a g e