Presentation by La WASH Group

1. Learning and Sharing platform : Theme:Community initiatives and impact on WASH service delivery in Ghana: The Community perspectiveImproving WASH service in La through Citizen's Actions Presentation by La WASH Group

2. Actions of Committee Water Rationing Monitoring Pragramme

3. Achievements • Faulty pipes burst reported and repaired in hour in instead of days • Communities not served during rationing periods are now served. • Good relationship with service providers and community WASH committee. • Improve access to water supply to some parts of communities

4. Challenges • High cost of phone unit for committee members to communicate • Network failure in reaching service providers • Toll free line not working • Low level of awareness of monitoring programme to communities • Lack of funds to create awareness of programme and provision of unit to contact persons

5. Way Forward • Formation of water vendors association to promote accountability in service delivery. • Training of community groups on the use of Community Score Card to monitor water service delivery • Establishing of links with schools to monitor water flow for quality education • Awareness creation on monitoring of rationing and fault reported • Meeting with service providers to share findings and ways of improving monitoring • Meeting with water vendors.

6. Hygienic Household Water Storage Programme Objectives • To promote hygienic ways of solving water during water provision • To create awareness on the impact of fungus in water contamination • To reduce water borne diseases in the communities

7. Rationale for Programme • Unhygienic water containers for storing water in household in communities • Lack of information on the health impact of fungus in storage containers • High diarrhoea rate in communities • Presence of foreign materials in water during period of flow

8. Activities • Engagement with water vendors to educate them on water collection • Street campaign on clearing of containers for storage • Person to person contact in proper hygienic ways of water storage

9. Achievements • Gradual buying into idea of educating water collectors by water vendors in the communities • Person to person campaign yielding fruits in some households

10. Challenges • Lack of education on the health effects of the fungus • Lack of funds to create the awareness on the need for hygienic ways of storing water • Lack of training of community promoters on the household water treatment and storage • Lack of mass education equipment for education programme in communities • Limited personnel in campaigning on hygienic water storage

11. Way Forward • Engagement with numerous communities group leaders for opportunity to use their meeting in platform for promoting household treatment and storage of water in the communities • Willingness of water vendors to form associations to be trained and be campaigners • Use of numerous clans meeting in communities ones in a month to solicit points for campaign • Water point to water point campaign on day of water flow to create awareness of hygienic storage

12. Household Water Contamination Monitoring Project Unknown sources of water contamination • High water contamination during periodic water flow • Waste of water during period of due foreign materials • Inability to store water after three days cause unknown

13. Impact of water contamination to community • High cases of diarrhea • High meter bills as against quantity of water used • Poor water quality supply A major source of Water contamination

14. Tracing sources of water contamination in La community.

15. Monitoring pipe burst and wastage of water in La Community

16. Thank you all