Transcript Some of Mvula Trust experiences in multiple use approaches

Some of Mvula Trust
experiences in multiple use
approaches
24 August 2005
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Presentation Content
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RWH Information Resources Booklet - 1999
Xolo Rainwater Harvesting - KZN
NDA funded projects in EC & KZN
Water, Health & Livelihoods (WHELL)
RWH for Household Food Security
Presentation Portfolio Committee Water
Affairs and Forestry - Water for Domestic and
Productive Use
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RWH Information Resources Booklet
- 1999
• Collaboration between MT & Disaster
Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Project
(UCT) - Author John Gould
• Key areas of RWH:
– Types & components of RWH
– Systems design, implementation &
operation
– List of information sources & resources on
RWH
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Xolo Rainwater Harvesting - KZN
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MT appointed(EU funding) Operation Hunger as IA
Xolo village inUlundi LM within Zululand DM
Project was implemented between 1997 &1999
The project was planned to provide RWH tanks for 200
households. Our records indicate that only 75 may have been
built.
• Mainly 4.5 cub meters ferrocement tanks were built. Catchment
systems were not well developed and households had to
improvise. Also leakages of the tanks were experienced and
considerable effort went into repairing these.
• It would appear from the record that R2408 per tank was
budgeted for, of which R1542 was subsidised (EU funding), and
the household had to contribute R866 (a mixture of cash &
labour equity)
• Mvula has not been in contact with the project community since
about 1999 - project status unknown
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NDA funded projects in EC & KZN
• NDA integrated devt - health & livelihoods
• Two projects implemented between 2003 & 2005
• Mawusheni (Alfred Nzo DM) involved upgrading of
water supply system, institutional sanitation at
schools & livelihoods including communal garden
• Community water supply also provides water for the
communal garden
• WSA pays for O&M and has given unofficial
approval?
• Ngedlengedle ( ) involved upgrading of community
water supply & separate water supply for communal
gardens
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Water, Health & Livelihoods
(WHELL)
• Collaboration between Care-SA, AWARD, Tsogang &
Mvula
• Five year programme funded by Ausaid (2nd year)
• Purpose: Improving CSOs and government capacity to
deliver quality decentralised rural services that
mainstream effective responses to HIV/AIDS and address
gender inequities to enhance livelihoods.
• Two of MT pilot sites will focus on following learning areas:
– Productive use of water/ LED/ livelihoods/Rain Water
Harv’ting
– Appropriate Technology – standpipes, reservoirs,
filters, etc gender sensitive approaches
– Multiple use water systems, multiple source systems
RWH, HLS
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WHELL CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK :
LINKAGES IN WATSAN
TO MAINSTREAM HIV/AIDS & GENDER
Municipal
capacity
Multiple sources
for multiple uses
WATER & SANITATION
Indigent Policy
cognisant of
Linkages with other
Service Providers/Dept’
HIV/AIDS & GENDER
O&M,
Communication,
Responses
Reliability &
Services levels
Research/Knowledge
of community
specific vulnerabilities
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Justicia - Mpumalanga
• BBR LM in Bohlabela DM
• WHELL Learning areas/model development
– Community participation in WSP
arrangements
– Free basic water provision
– Productive use of water (community
gardens)
– Institutional (school) and hh sanitation
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Tshiungani - Limpopo
• Mutale LM in Vhembe DM
• WHELL Learning areas/model development
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Community participation in water services
provider arrangements which will provide lessons
in CBO capacitation in community water supply
provision and management
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Free basic water and sanitation benefiting rural
households including health and hygiene
promotion and HIV/AIDS linkages
 Water for productive use in relation to promoting
household food security
The mainstreaming of gender as a cross cutting
component of the the models to be developed
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RWH for Household Food Security
• Proposal presently being negotiated with DWAF
Directorate Water Resource Finance & Finance
 Policy on Financial Assistance to Resource Poor
Farmers, September 2004
 Based on the National Water Act, 1998
 Central guiding principles: equity and
sustainability
 Financial assistance supplied in terms of Sections
61 and 62 of NWA, 1998.
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RWH for Household Food Security
 Purpose: Facilitate utilisation of initial public funding as a lever
to ensure sustainable development best:
 ensuring community participation;
 stakeholder involvement in every step;
 developing socio-economically viable, practical,
manageable and sustainable schemes;
 promoting, with other role-players, availability of support
services (i.e., capacity building, training, effective
monitoring systems, etc.)
 6 key objectives:
 Grant for rain-water tanks.
 Tanks:
 max. of R5 000 to est. a tank;
 Only 1 tank + pump per household;
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RWH for Household Food Security
• Three sites based on Mt’s ongoing relations
with communities & LMs & DMs
• Manamela village - Limpopo; aganang LM &
Capricorn DM
• Ngwenyeni - Mpumalanga, Nkomazi LM &
Ahlanzeni DM
• Bityi-Matheko village - King Sabata Dalidyebo
LM & OR Tambo DM
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RWH for Household Food Security
• Implementation in phases which included
consultations with all stakeholders
• Village scoping to identify of the poorest hhs
• Frequent community information meetings
• Household surveys & applications including
hh water uses plan
• Initial 50 hh applications per pilot site already
submitted to DWAF
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Presentation Portfolio Committee Water
Affairs and Forestry - Water for Domestic
and Productive Use
• Rural hhs make use of water for a variety of purposes
from multiple sources (domestic; food production/security;
livestock; income generation activities)
• WSAs adopt narrow interpretation to household water
supply in terms of present water services policies and
legislation to provide FBW and as dictated by available
budgets for infrastructure development and O&M - many
do not even provide basic RDP standard services.
(WSAct; Mun Structures Act; SFWS)
• Some WSAs have acknowledged the need for integrated
approaches to hh water provision to include water for
productive uses (DWAF SFWS - Report from Municipal
Consultations)
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Presentation Portfolio Committee
Water Affairs and Forestry
• Traditional water sources are not always conveniently
situated to support food security activities of rural
households.
• Water systems designs are not always supportive of
food security & livelihoods needs - provision of
potable water supply is hugely expensive
• Vulnerable food insecure hhs are not being
empowered to provide for their own basic survival
needs in the present water services policy
environment - need for broader definition of
sustainable hh water supply
• Net result is the govt’s programme of action for
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poverty alleviation is being frustrated
Presentation Portfolio Committee
Water Affairs and Forestry
– National Guidelines for Integrated Management of Agricultural Water Use
(“Fruits of Our Water” Programme) Joint policy involving various
national line departments sponsored by DoA
– Directed at revitalisation of agricultural water use sector
– Two-fold stepped objective:
• improved household food security (“food first”) through own
food production
• mainstreaming historically disadvantaged farmers in the
economy through support to access markets
 Policy on Financial Assistance to Resource Poor
Farmers, September 2004
 Based on the National Water Act, 1998
 Central guiding principles: equity and sustainability
 Financial assistance supplied in terms of Sections 61
and 62 of NWA, 1998.
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Presentation Portfolio Committee
Water Affairs and Forestry
 Purpose: Facilitate utilisation of initial public funding as a
lever to ensure sustainable development best:
 ensuring community participation;
 stakeholder involvement in every step;
 developing socio-economically viable, practical,
manageable and sustainable schemes;
 promoting, with other role-players, availability of
support services (i.e., capacity building, training,
effective monitoring systems, etc.)
 6 key objectives:
 Grant for rain-water tanks.
 Tanks:
 max. of R5 000 to est. a tank;
 Only 1 tank + pump per household
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Presentation Portfolio Committee
Water Affairs and Forestry
Recommendations:
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Need for dialogue between Water Services & Water Resource
Management directorates in DWAF to develop policy synergies for
water for domestic and productive use
Need for dialogue and synergy between DWAF & DoA to develop
coherent roll out strategy for hh RWH
Need for dialogues between DWAF, DoA, dplg & SALGA on application
of MIG funding to strengthen this important initiative to provide
sustainable water for multiple uses to vulnerable hhs
Need to develop appropriate implementation models for programme roll
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Awareness creation for WSA’s and to create linkages with local WSDP
& IDP processes and local LED initiatives
RWH harvesting for sustainable livelihoods is not simply the provision
of a tank, and has to involve mentoring & support in hh food security
strategies
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Other RWH Initiatives
• Klipfontein near Garies in Northern
Cape
• HH RWH implemented by Operation
Hunger 1992-1994
• Square tanks
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Thank You
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