Concept Paper Title: Type of Project: Location: Quezon WASH Program and Pilot project in Maasin. Creation and strengthening of WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene mechanisms and partnerships between Government and Non-Government stakeholders. Infrastructure implementation by local stakeholders. Municipality of Quezon, Palawan Project Implementers: A Single Drop for Safe Water inc. Institute for the Development of Educational and Ecological Alternatives Project Stakeholders: Barangay Maasin Residents Municipality of Quezon LGU Funding Required: Php 1,500,000 Schedule: 12 months from release of funding Table of Contents 1. Relevance of the action 2. Description of the action and its effectiveness 3. Sustainability of the action 4. Current Situation in Maasin, Quezon 5. Project Implementation Schedule and Budget Prepared by: Kevin Lee Executive Director A Single Drop for Safe Water inc. April 27, 2010
1. Relevance of the action Currently 13 million Filipinos have limited or no access to safe water. This is not due to lack of water, but a lack of operating infrastructure to distribute and treat water. Infrastructure development projects have failed in significant numbers due to: Minimal advocacy to the general public of the importance of safe adequate water for health and poverty reduction, resulting in lack of community ownership and limited political will. Organizational and management issues resulting in operating associations failing. Minimal technical capacity by designers and those that are maintaining and operating the systems. Even though Local Government Units have a duty to provide Water and Sanitation services they typically do not have the resources (financial, technical or organizational) to provide these services. Typically Water and Sanitation projects are funder driven. This is supply driven aid where the community is consulted but don t participate in project design. Once system is installed there is little community ownership resulting in failure within 2 years due to neglect. Note that most residents have existing water sources which compete with the sources developed as systems. When payment or other investment is required for the new system residents revert to the old source as they do not see the return on investment. This program is designed to create demand through advocacy and participatory processes for the design of water/sanitation plans and projects. In addition to this demand creation there is a parallel effort to increase the capacity of local stakeholders to service that demand. Good governance (transparency and accountability) with multi sectoral participation along with partnerships between LGU s, Non- Government Organizations (NGO s) as well as Peoples Organizations (PO s) will allow communities to service Water and Sanitation needs that they identify. Solutions and infrastructure development will be issue based and not based on the capability of suppliers. Note that this is commonly referred to as WAter, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion or WASH. Water and Sanitation is identified as a priority need. Participation and cooperation between government and non government actors is also a priority. The following mechanisms fulfills these objectives LGU a Municipal WASH Task Force (MWTF) which is made up of LGU employees, ie. Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator, Medical Health Officer, Municipal Engineering Officer. This is formed by EO and headed by the Mayor to focus on WASH throughout the municipality Water and Sanitation Associations (WSA) these are peoples organizations that are formed to implement and manage WASH at the barangay level. These are formed based on the functionality of the association depending on the need it is servicing. Membership is from the community as a whole and can be in the form of a service provider (operating a level II or III water system) or a product provider (building and installing household water treatment systems, pump repair, dug well or rainwater harvesting system builders) Non-Government Organizations (NGO s) are vital partners in community development. The role of NGO s is to provide capacity building and support for the MWTF s and WSA s.
A Single Drop for Safe Water (ASDSW) would work with a Quezon based NGO, the Institute for the Development of Educational and Ecological Alternatives (IDEAS), and the Municipal Local Government Unit of Quezon to start a municipal wide WASH program, piloted in Barangay Maasin. A Single Drop for Safe Water inc. would manage the program and is a WASH based capacity building organization based in Palawan that would build the capacity of IDEAS, the Municipal LGU and the community so that the program can be replicated throughout the municipality. IDEAS role in the program is to provide qualified participants in the WASH and organizational trainings, coordination and mobilization of all stakeholders, formal and informal leaders as well as logistical coordination of all program related activities. When the program is completed there will be: An active Municipal WASH Task Force for the municipality of Quezon that is responsible for the coordination of WASH projects and increased capacity to facilitate WASH projects and services. A functional WSA in Barangay Maasin with the technical and organizational capacity to plan implement, and manage WASH services. The NGO, IDEAS will have increased WASH capacity to further support development efforts in Quezon and surrounding municipalities. Water and Sanitation projects completed in Maasin for the supply of WASH services An increase of awareness of the importance of WASH throughout the municipality Prioritization of WASH by the LGU of Quezon.
2. Description of the action and its effectiveness A Single Drop for Safe Water inc. worked with the Local Governance Support Program for ARMM (LGSPA) in 2008 and 2009 pioneering this governance approach to WASH. Worked in 31 municipalities with 7 NGO s. This resulted in building of capacity throughout ARMM and the MWTF s and WSA;s as well as the NGO s have been able to implement WASH projects outside of the program. This process has also been used in Sual, Pangasinan for the development and implementation of water systems and other WASH services in 3 barangays. This process has been successfully used for WASH projects in North Kabuntalan in Maguindanao and the municipality of Buhi in Camarines Sur is currently developing projects following this process. The steps are outlined below: Project Start up Orientation of the Municipal LGU, Barangay LGU and the community on the program approach Executive Order by Chief Executive forming the MWTF and selection of focal point people. Forming interim WSA for Barangay Maasin Scheduling of the trainings and coordinating logistics. WASH Planning Process Training for WASH inventory (WIn) o WIn is a participative inventory tool that includes the community in determining what exists o Current water sources o Current Sanitation and hygiene practices o Undeveloped sources o Disease out breaks o Participants IDEAS MWTF Interim WSA Barangay residents Training on WIn Data analysis, WASH situationer and Municipal WASH Planning o Analyze data from WIn o Construct a WASH Situationer o Create a Vision for WASH and then Goals, Objectives and strategies to get from the current situation to the vision. This would include many small steps and larger projects as required. Review of the Plan and Validation of the process. Engineering and Technical Training for qualified personal from IDEAS, MWTF and WSA. o Water and sanitation system design o Water treatment options o Can then feed this information back into the WASH planning process
Project Design From the planning process, projects will be identified for Water and Sanitation systems of hygiene promotion campaigns. IDEAS, MWTF and WSA trained on project design and proposal writing along with technical advice on proposed projects o Includes Technical Design Budgeting Scheduling Resource Mobilization Community and LGU counterparts Validate the proposal in the community Project Investment and Implementation Projects will be reviewed by all stakeholders and approved based on certain criteria such as: o Interim WSA will be transformed into working WSA for implementation and ongoing operation o Will include organizational and technical training for WSA, MWTF and IDEAS, to ensure that the systems will be sustainable. o Counterpart in the form of labor, materials, cash or other options must be provided by the community and LGU s o Projects must result from the planning and project design process. o This fund can also be used to leverage outside investors. Future Sustainability The MWTF can then replicate this process in the other barangays. Because the capacity development involves MWTF, IDEAS and WSA for Maasin these local resources can be used to develop a municipal WASH plan and projects in the other barangays Linkages will be created with provincial line agencies to promote the replication of this program in other municipalities. This is a step by step process. Each step has an output and the next step cannot proceed. Executive Order forming the MWTF including budget allocation Interim WSA WASH Inventory results and WASH Situationer WASH Plan Project Plan Project Proposal WSA Transformation Infrastructure Implementation As stated above, this process has been piloted in ARMM provinces of Mindanao and this project will build on the lessons learned. As shown above there are indicators all the way through the process. These indicators show commitment on the parts of all the stakeholders as well as their capacity improvements as they proceed through the process.
3. Sustainability of the action By building capacity within the community through the whole process the objective is to create and strengthen local mechanisms so that they can determine their own needs and solutions and have outside agencies invest in their community. Moving from supply driven aid to demand driven aid. There are tangible results WASH Infrastructure MWTF and WSA to keep WASH efforts running. MWTF able to replicate in other barangays and create a consolidated WASH effort. NGO with the ability to replicate the efforts in other municipalities and communities More community awareness of the needs for WASH services and the raising of WASH in the priority of LGU s Database and information center A network of WASH players. Most system and organizational failures are a result of finances. This program helps in two ways. Engineering and technical trainings to ensure that the most effective and efficient systems are designed. Reducing the capital costs involved makes resource mobilization simpler. Cost recovery systems are part of organizational development. Demand creation puts a value on the service supplied, The community pays the WSA for this service. Through transparency and accountability, the WSA can justify costs. They will also have the skills to properly supply the service. With advocacy efforts and the participatory nature of the data gathering process the general public will start to demand greater emphasis on WASH. They will start to understand the effects of WASH on poverty and education, both key issues for communities. Local Chief Executives will respond to this demand and by supporting the MWTF and the MWTF supporting the WSA s, WASH will become a priority issue.
4. Current Situation in Maasin, Quezon 381 Households (2010 residents) It is a mixture of coastal fisherfolk and upland farmers on subsistence incomes. o 8km from Poblacian o Indigenous Peoples, (IP s) represent about 75% of the population Current water sources are: o Dug Wells 245 hh o Shallow well hand pumps 16 hh o Deep well - 70 households o Level II spring development Currently services < 50 households Spring intake box is capturing only small part of spring Implemented first by LGU and then assisted by IDEAS to partially rehabilitate the system No functional organization managing system The LGU has limited WASH focus and capacity to implement WASH projects. There is no focal body on the LGU for WASH. Reported cases of water related issues include: o Skin diseases o Diarrhea outbreaks (2008 data) Morbidity rank 3 rd in ten leading causes of morbidity with 49 cases Mortality rank second with 1 casualty Sanitation: o Sanitary Toilets in 97 hh o Unsanitary Toilers in 258 hh o No toilets 26 hh
5. Project Implementation Schedule and Budget Schedule Project Funding Released Week 1 to 4 o Orientation Process and formation of MWTF and Interim WSA o EO for MWTF o MOA between ASDSW, IDEAS and Municipal LGU Week 4 to 8 o WASH Inventory o WASH Planning o Project Design Week 9 o Engineering Training Week 10 to 11 o Project Validation o Implementation Planning o Commitment of all stakeholders Week 11 to 20 o Completion of Design o Bidding and Purchasing o Technical trainings o Installation o WSA organizational training Week 32 on o Consolidation training (working with all stakeholders to ensure that services are being supplied and working on weaknesses) o Note there is ongoing evaluation and monitoring prior to consolidation and continuing after the consolidation o Working with MWTF on replication of process. Budget - 44php = $1US Honorariums and training fees o IDEAS 150,000 o ASDSW 420,000 Trainer expenses (per diem, materials travel) 150,000 Materials, skilled labor etc for Project Implementation 780,000 TOTAL Investment Required 1,500,000 Counterpart estimate o Hauling of Materials to site 30,000 o Accommodation of Trainers etc 50,000 o Participant food and expenses 40,000 o Local Transportation 10,000 o Labor for installation of Infrastructure (400 mandays) 80,000 o Budget for MWTF (50,000/yr) 50,000 o TOTAL 260,000 o GRAND TOTAL US$ $40,000 o 6 Additional Barangays o $30,000 x 6 $180,000 o Counterpart estimate ($5000x6) 30,000 TOTAL PROGRAM COSTS $250,000