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Rural Water Supply and Environmental Programme (RWSEP)

empowering rural people through the

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND

Ato Zemene Tsehay, WRDB Ato Mefin Gebremedhin, BoFED

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MILESTONES OF RWSEP

• RWSEP started in 1994
• Community Development Fund (CDF) modality piloted in 2003
• CDF modality operational in all RWSEP wordedas in 2005
• Fund management was shifted to BoFED 2007
• CDF incorporated in WASH Implementation Framework in 2011
• CDF renamed to Community Managed Projects (CMP) and

nationwide scaling-up started 2011 to 2014 Closure of the Rural Water Supply And Environmental Programme

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THE WAY TO CDF SUCCESS

Starting from Phase I, RWSEP introduced:

• A powerful capacity building emphasizing an empowered role of

community with strong equity concept and empowerment of women

• A multi-sector partnership between water health, education, women’s

affairs and finance sectors,

• Strong message delivery approach

however,

• RWSEP was still a conventional programme, with financial

contribution of the GoF managed by the TA consultant

• RWSEP continued like this through the two first phases, up to 2003

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At the end of Phase II (2002)

• Woredas had the skill and capacity to perform but the environment

for efficiency seemed to be missing

• Communities participated but had a secondary role in managing the

development

• Distribution of resources did not fully consider the varying capacity

among the woredas

• Procurement procedures were cumbersome and slowed down the

construction speed

• Procurement in bulk put the local suppliers at woredas in marginal
• Woreda offices had resources to manage a limited number of

construction sites at the same time

• The superficial role of communities left their capacity under-utilized

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The idea of CDF emerged from the need for:

• Efficient utilization of the Partners’ resources:

 Enabling an environment for optimizing woredas’ capacity  Establishing a genuine role of the communities for sustaining the benefits of investments  Building up the private sector’s role in construction, maintenance and spare part supply  Creation of decentralized, material, goods and services supply chain, including spare parts supply Closure of the Rural Water Supply And Environmental Programme

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Elements of solution through CDF

Communities’ role was upgraded:

• Communities were made responsible for managing the entire construction

including the funds

• Capacity building of communities was extended to contract and financial

management processes of construction Woredas’ role was adjusted to the communities’ new role:

• A woreda-centred decision making structure (CDF Board) was put in place to

coordinate the development in each woreda

• The Boards approve projects and control communities use of funds
• Woreda's role became one of a facilitator instead of an implementor

Fund channelling was changed:

• Investment funds were now further transferred through a micro-finance

institution (ACSI) to WASHCOS at communities

• No changes were made in channelling funds to government partners for

capacity building

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The final steps for institutionalizing the CDF was taken during Phase IV

• TA was integrated in the regional and zone structures:
• Management of GoF fund contribution was shifted to the Regional

Bureau of Finance and Economic Development (BoFED)

• Scaling up in Amhara Region started by new financiers introducing CDF

(GoE and UNICEF)

• Nation-wide scaling up CDF was initiated leading to the inclusion of the

CDF modality into the GoE National WASH Programme Implementation Framework (WIF)

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Stages of the CDF Process Closure of the Rural Water Supply And Environmental Programme

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Features of fund flow in CDF

• WASHCOs, elected by community

members manage the investment funds

• Government uses a micro-

financer institution to channel investment funds to WASHCOs

• Woredas control the fund use of

WASHCOs

• Capacity building finds are

channelled to woredas through BoFED’s line offices

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Financial Progress in Phase IV

GoF financing to RWSEP

 Euro 9.75 million for capacity building and investments (86 %)  Euro 1.57 million for Technical assistance (14 %)  3,240 water points have been constructed serving 770,000 people  Average cost per empowered community Euro 3,490, or Euro 14.70 per community member

GoE financing to RWSEP

 Euro 1.42 million for operational costs related to RWSEP  Euro 485 per empowered community, or Euro 1.8 per community member

Community contribution

 Euro 1.63 million (in kind), in average 23 % of investment costs

GoF contribution to RWSEP has been Euro 30 million

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ACHIEVEMENTS: Overall Objective of RWSEP: The capacity of communities to initiate, manage and implement their priority projects with support from woredas in Amhara Region and other regions in Ethiopia

• As result from the capacity building of RWSEP, communities have a

proven capacity to manage the cycle for constructing and operating a water point

• Alongside, communities have become empowered to manage other

similar development initiatives and their operation and maintenance

• In practicing their capacity, communities’ need for technical support by

woreda offices is diminishing

• CDF is currently a national option for implementing WASH projects for

reaching the targets of the Universal Access Plan

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Number of water points constructed in RWSEP in 1994-2011:

• Totally 6,524 water points

constructed, out of which 4,515 by communities using CDF approach (= built after 2003)

• 92.4 – 100 % of 6,524

water points functional

• Annual construction rate

has increased from 20 WPs in 1998 to 75 in 2009; national average below 30

1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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Average construction costs in RWSEP:

• Total cost of Phases divided

by number of Water Points constructed

• Total cost of one water point

in Phase IV ~4,000 Euro, or 12.5 Euro/person (includes all inputs of GoF, GoE and community)

• Investment costs 70%;

capacity building 30 % of total costs

2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000

Phase I Phase II Phase III Phase IV

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Access coverage in 14 RWSEP woredas:

• Totally 6,524 water

points constructed, out

• f which 4,515 by

communities using CDF approach (= after 2003)

• Coverage in 14 RWSEP

woredas varies between 68.7 and 99.3 %; total 1,32 million people

• 92.4 – 100 % of water

points functional

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Phase I Phase II Phase III Phase IV

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WASH Implementation Modalities in the National Wash Implementation Framework

• Woreda Managed Projects
• Community Managed Projects, former

Community Development Fund (CDF)

• NGO Managed Projects
• Self Supply Projects

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CDF for WATER, SANITATION and HYGIENE:

• Full utilization of human resources
• Empowered communities
• Empowered women
• Healthy children
• Prosperous communities