A Case of Pawe And Mandura Woredas, North Eastern Part of Benishangul Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia
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2012-11
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
A recent development of the CMP approach, to implement rural water supply projects has been
piloted in five woredas of the Metekel zone in Benishangul Gumuz regional state located at the
Western part of Ethiopia. The assessment on the efficiency of the approach has been carried out
in two woredas of the Northern part of Metekel Zone, namely, Mandura and Pawe woredas.
First, it was checked if efforts have been put in to place and its applicability before evaluating
accomplished results. In the second part, effectiveness of the approach was evaluated. In this
research, the approach is supposed to effective if implementation is efficient, if the built schemes
are going to sustain and if schemes are providing proper and adequate services. Accordingly, a
rural water supply system is supposed to be sustainable up on achieving determinants of
sustainability. In this research, these aspects are taken as factors that indicate effectiveness,
which is a means to measure advancement of the approach towards meeting objectives.
Major findings of the research were, elements of the approach were practiced as required except
participating communities in technology option selection and post construction support. From the
identified causes, it was recognized that there were no evidences found to articulate
inappropriateness of any elements of the approach for the study areas. Finally, the effectiveness of
the approach, evaluated using averaging the scores attributed to indicators showed above average
value that is, 68.61% and 76.70% for Mandura and Pawe woredas respectively. This is interpreted
as its application has shown promising result, which only requires some adjustment and efforts for
its complete implementation and better output. And it appeared that more effort is needed to secure
spare part availability and improve efficiency of community financing. And in general terms, other
factors to be given due consideration include skill and awareness of community, especially in
Mandura woreda where the socio economic situation is relatively poorer. Recommendations are
made on how to deal with the gaps that has been identified for further accomplishments and stress
on implementation procedures, which need focus for proper operation and maintenance so as to
assure sustainability of schemes.
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Benishangul, Gumuz regional state located