Morogoro, TZ – Water projects for three villages – 30 Nov 2014

The TWARUMBWA project is located in Kilosa district of the Morogoro Region, where TWARUMBWA represents the combined initials of three villages called Twatwatwa, Rudewa and Mbwade.

Successful Completion of first phase in 2013 in implementing two pastoral community water projects in Kilosa with a total budget of TZS 200 million serving over 4,700 people and 42,000 livestock has enabled development of a new agreement with Winrock to support 5 villages (three new villages of Batini,Mbuyuni and Gongoni in Rudewa ward and two pastoral Communities with pipelines extension and new drilling of two boreholes. Multiple Water Service (MUS) is being used as an approach to utilize water for productive use (chicken rearing and gardening) to increase economic status of the community. The intervention is done in collaboration with Heifer International Tanzania and TAHA (Tanzania Horticultural Association). It is 2 years project with the budget of TZS 695 million (US$ 400,000) .

Project implementation arrangement and approaches:

SAWA is implementing the project under the supervision of Community leadership, iWASH (Winrock International) and Kilosa District Council. Demand driven approach is used where community members provide cash and inkind contributions according to their desirability and feasibility. SAWA uses MUS approach, a holistic, participatory approach to provide water that improves livelihoods and health, protects the environment, increases sustainability, and ultimately improves people’s lives.

SAWA is collaborating with Heifer International, TAHA and TANIPE to realize the benefits of MUS approach.

Heifer International: Provides support on livelihood activities and specifically on home gardening and chicken husbandry.

TANIPE: Provides support in facilitation of work specifically in the pastoralist villages (Mbwade and Twatwatwa) to conduct Sanitation and hygiene promotion activities and community capacity building on project management and environmental awareness creation and sensitization (water resource management and effective use of grazing land).

And TAHA: specifically supporting Rudewa on business/commercial gardeners on improved gardening techniques and market search.

Additionally SAWA in collaboration with iWASH (Winrock International) on behavior change promoting activities including Household water treatment and safety (HWTS) and motivation through provision of latrine prize draws and drama on Sanitation and hygiene. In schools through SWASH clubs, children and teachers will be facilitated and trained on behavior change and school WASH management.
Formation of management system for WASH project is being facilitated with full engagement/participation of community members including the representative from different community groups, initial meetings have been conducted, the task force is going on with drafting the constitution . Management committees will also be trained and monitored on the implementation and sustaining their services.

Extension in Twatwatwa and Mbwade

• Twatwatwa village: it was agreed with community, to extend existing system to Mkutani and Meserani areas with total length of about 7 km. Each extension will have a cattle trough and one DP. In Manyara sub-village which is far from the existing scheme is considered separately to have an independent water source that will include drilling of bore hole, installation of pump, tank, cattle trough and one DP Community empowerment in Management, Operation and Maintenance will be given a high priority, including post project supports.

• Mbwade : the activities include drilling of a new borehole at Msituni area ( which is potential area for grazing during dry season) , construction of new cattle trough , DP and rehabilitation of existing storage tank with 60m3. Also, community empowerment in Management, Operation and Maintenance is given a high priority, including post project supports.
• New Intervention in Rudewa Villages

Rudewa villages are Batini, Gongoni and Mbuyuni located about 21km from Kilosa town along Kilosa – Dumila road and about 70km from MorogoroWith a population of 10,000 people facing acute problem of water resulting from a nonfunctional scheme which used to serve the population. The scheme had two storage tanks of capacity 45and 22 m3 and 13water points.
Failure of the scheme was attributed by collapsed borehole (drilled in Batini to serve three villages), management problems and water source ownership conflict between Gongoni and Batini villages.

The community in Mbuyuni is served by 17 shallow wells out of which 2 are not working. The main problem with the handpumps is poor management and lack of spare parts. Gongoni has no alternative source; people have to buy water from vendor’s colleting from shallow wells in Batini at a cost of 500 shillings per 20 liters. The majority of communities (especially from Batini and Gongoni) are using water from the Wami River whose water is not clean/safe and has crocodiles that endanger peoples’ lives as reported the case of Kilosa Secondary student being caught while collecting water from the river.

There are 3 primary schools and two secondary schools (Kilosa Kilimo and Rudewa). Two primary schools are served with hand pumps (Rudewa – has rope pump and Mbuyuni has handpump) and Kilosa secondary school is served by small gravity scheme. Gongoni primary and Rudewa school has no water service.

To address the water problem in Rudewa, the Construction of gravity scheme from river Kizunguzi ( branches from Wami river) located in Msimba hills about 12km observed to be the best option. This scheme will feed into the existing infrastructures including two tanks and distribution networks which need rehabilitation and some extension. This option will help to solve the problem of water conflicts between the villages and avoid uncertainties of borehole drilling, less O&M and potential for expansion to other villages of Rudewa ward.

Sanitation and hygiene:

SAWA is facilitating the community to improve sanitation and hygiene practices through Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach to create demand for improved sanitation to households. Dramas and competitions are being used to encourage behavior change (Hand washing with soap, safe water handling and safe excreta disposal) and access to improved sanitation facilities. Household Water Treatment and Safety (HWTS) is also promoted to enhance good behavior on drinking water handling. A Special campaign called “Construct a toilet and win” was organized, which is promoting construction and improvement of sanitation and hygiene facilities. The campaign is managed by iWASH and involves:

• Identification of animators and Artisans: 6 animator and 2 artisans for Rudewa are engaged
• Awareness creation on key hygiene and sanitation messages (hand washing with soap, water and point hygiene)

Winners will be awarded on the 19th November during world toilet day.

Hygiene promotion in 3 schools Batini, Gongoni and Mbuyuni included:

• Hygiene messages were developed, SWASH clubs and, handwashing facilities (tippy taps, other simple technologies)
• Drama events on latrine improvements/ construction in the community- Rudewa; Gongoni, Mbuyuni and Batini village also was done. : Organized meeting in each village before the drama events to share with community leaders for the change introduced in the community to be effective and sustainable and awareness creation on latrine significance in the community as part of the project in Rudewa villages.
• The Drama events and the village meetings emphasised:
  • Latrine improvement/ construction competition in the community under IWASH.
  • Criteria for improved latrine were taught
  • Qualification of the participants were explained to the community
  • List of the Villages involved in the competition was given to the community to sharpen their efforts to acquire more prize
  •  List of Prizes was explained clearly to the community.

  Hygiene promotion in schools will be done through SWASH clubs; children and teachers will be facilitated and trained on behavior change and school WASH management.

  Livelihood
  Most of the population in Rudewa is poor. However, they at least have some chickens in their households, and some are managing gardens where they grow vegetables for small businesses. Therefore it is felt that the project using MUS approach will be able to contribute to improvement of peoples livelihoods through interventions that will give them proper knowledge and skills to do better. SAWA in collaboration with Heifer International and TAHA facilitate key components of home gardening and chicken husbandry in project areas (200HHs in Rudewa and 200 in Twatwatwa and Mbwade 100 each) and commercial/business gardening for Rudewa with focus to improvement of economic status of people especially women. The Heifer intervention has also built SAWA and TANIPE capacities on implementation of Livelihood activities.

  Environment
  The environment of the project area has been affected by human activities especially cutting of trees for making charcoal, uncontrolled grazing and farming along the rivers. Poor management and lack of support from the leadership has been the main cause for these practices as a result there has been yearly effects during rain seasons. SAWA is collaborating with TANIPE, Wami Basin, Kilosa District council and community entities (COWSOs and WUA) to create and raise community awareness on environmental protection with focus on water sources , cleanliness around water points and grazing land management in pastoral communities.

  Activities performed so far:
  Planning meeting: Review plans and budgets with community at Twatwatwa and Mbwade in collaboration with TANIPE to insure Cost effective implementable revised plans and budgets and minutes of agreed issues with communities were documented.

  Technical assessment: Identification of water needs, health, livelihoods and environment which guide the development of new sources and level of rehabilitation of existing infrastructure was done

  Survey: Hydro geological survey at Manyara and Mbwade to identify the potential area for drilling of boreholes and topographical survey for gravity scheme in Rudewa was done.

  Design of Gravity scheme, Design of gravity scheme and development of Technical drawings and identification of required materials (Bill of Quantities) was done

  Tendering process, Bidding documents for borehole drilling, plumbing and civil materials were developed and the whole process of tender was done.

  Boreholes drilling at Manyara and Mbwade: The two boreholes with 80m depth were drilled successfully; pump test and water test analysis was done. The result revealed that the wells have good yield of 20m3/hr and potable for human consumption.

  Identification of the pipe route for extension of Meserani and Mkutani in Twatwatwa scheme was done and the excavation of trenches is on progress

  Sensitization training on gardening and chicken husbandry at Rudewa: The two gardens were set in Mbuyuni primary school for demonstration purpose. Training on Chickens and gardening of community groups under Heifer is progressing well from which over 400 household will benefit.

  Orientation of TANIPE on provision of hygiene, sanitation and capacity building activities. The training was done to build TANIPE capacity to facilitate Sanitation and hygiene promotion in households and schools in Mbwade and Twatwatwa villages.

  COWSO formation meeting: Formation of management committee was done at Rudewa, were by the community were facilitated and managed to form COWSO which will be effective and transparent on managing finance as well as project operational in a sustainable manner.

  The way forward:
  Procurement of construction materials for Rudewa water scheme on progress
  Implementation of construction works (Rehabilitation of storage tanks, construction of Cattle troughs, water points, pump house and storage tanks and other activities as per contract