WATSAN Infrasture in Kpukru and Fayama Community Southern Sierra Leone
Action for Women and Children’s Empowerment (AWCE) is a non-profit making, non-tribal. It was established in 2016 and registered with the Government ministries in Sierra Leone.
Overview of the project
The project objective is to improve the sanitation and hygiene practices to an estimated 1000 poor and vulnerable persons in two communities in Southern Sierra Leone. This would be achieved through a RBF and innovative approaches in sanitation like the Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and the Village Savings and Loans Schemes (VSLAs) which puts more emphasis on the resourcefulness of the communities to make more effective use of funds and stimulates demand and investing in water, sanitation and hygiene services. A key strategy for achieving the objective is to improve the capacity of public, private and civil society actors in the two communities in Southern Sierra Leone to engage in a contracting approach in which payments for performance can foster improved and more cost efficient service delivery and better pro-poor targeting leading to an average 10% annual increase of access to improved sanitation services relative to baseline data over a three year period. This approach will be used in combination with Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS) and private sector development in WASH service provision.
This project aims at complementing other rural water and sanitation projects and to support the Kpakru and fayama community to get good water facility as most of the water sources are contaminated.
Feasibility study, diagnosis
Eighteen Months
The effect of clean drinking water and access to improved sanitation cuts across various sectors and contributes to many development goals. Over 7 million Sierra Leoneans will not use improved sanitation facilities by 2025
1. Poor sanitation in Sierra Leone contributes to about 70% of out-patient attendance.
2. Poor sanitation in Sierra Leone contributes to 25% of under-five mortality.
3. And 22% of mortality in children (MoH, 2019).
4. MDG target of 53%, annual coverage on water sanitation.
5. an average of 6% annual coverage is require.
In Sierra Leone, the water supply and sanitation sectors face diverse complex problems. According to various partners the core problem of the sanitation and hygiene sector is the systemic weakness to achieve sustainable results. The most obvious and direct causes contributing to the limited performance of the WASH sector are: demand for services is insufficiently articulated by end users. Some organizations already focus on behavioral change communication and social marketing, but not always in a comprehensive and result oriented approach.
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organisation
Action for Women and Children’s Empowerment (AWCE) is a non-profit making, non-tribal. It was established in 2016 and registered with the Government ministries in Sierra Leone. Is a community based organization that seeks to advocates and lobby for the rights and empowerment of women, and children and adolescent to support community development and act as change agents for national development. AWCE/SL works in two chiefdoms in Bo District (Jimmi-Bagbo and Baoma Chiefdoms) targeting four communities in these chiefdoms (Kpakru, Bummasewar, Kakama and Samalie) and three chiefdom in Pujehun District (Perri Chiefdom, Barri c/h, and Galiness Chiefdom) targeting six communities in this chiefdom (Foneiko, Blama Massaquoi, Sahi, Kpumbu and Foniema).
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