Add to ORKGOne problem in water programs is the operation and maintenance by communities. DACAAR has pioneered in Afghanistan a system where the community is responsible for their wells but pays a mechanic (selected by the communities and trained by DACAAR). A contract binds each community to the mechanics and he gets paid in kind by each community. The mechanic serves around 100 pump sites. The community pay for the sparesand a spare parts shop is organised. HITeams (Handpump Inspection Team) have been created, each covers 2,000 wells, and they visit all wells twice a year. The HITeam solves problems but does not repair the pumps. The HITeam reports on the wells and the data are entered in to a database and in this manner DACAAR know the percentage o...
Afghanistan has five major river basins which four of them are transboundary and shared with Iran, P...
Although a lot of effort and initiatives have been put in place, the issue of functionality of hand ...
As the equipment builder of the team, I was responsible for building the treadle pump, the sand filt...
Normally DACAAR sets up an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) system while installing new wells, this t...
High mortality and morbidity rates are prevalent in Afghanistan and one of the causes being lack of ...
Kabul water and environmental sanitation services have been affected by war, which ravaged large por...
The issue of hand pumps management and sustainability is of grave concern in many parts of Sudan esp...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Even in 2015, 784 million people are forced to drink contaminated water and over t...
The gravity of the problem of rural water supply and sanitation services low coverage (water supply ...
The study focused on maintenance & management problems of the hand pumps utilized in Sudan for prov...
In the post-emergency context, economic revitalization is a key factor for any response. Therefore, ...
The Afghanistan Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Corporation (AUWSSC) was formed in 2006 (transformat...
In Africa, out of the 350,000 handpumps installed, on average 35% is not working; some 150,000 handp...
Fallowing three decades (before the Bone conference) political unrest and civil war, Afghanistan fac...
Presented during the USCID water management conference held on October 13-16, 2004 in Salt Lake City...
Afghanistan has five major river basins which four of them are transboundary and shared with Iran, P...
Although a lot of effort and initiatives have been put in place, the issue of functionality of hand ...
As the equipment builder of the team, I was responsible for building the treadle pump, the sand filt...
Normally DACAAR sets up an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) system while installing new wells, this t...
High mortality and morbidity rates are prevalent in Afghanistan and one of the causes being lack of ...
Kabul water and environmental sanitation services have been affected by war, which ravaged large por...
The issue of hand pumps management and sustainability is of grave concern in many parts of Sudan esp...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Even in 2015, 784 million people are forced to drink contaminated water and over t...
The gravity of the problem of rural water supply and sanitation services low coverage (water supply ...
The study focused on maintenance & management problems of the hand pumps utilized in Sudan for prov...
In the post-emergency context, economic revitalization is a key factor for any response. Therefore, ...
The Afghanistan Urban Water Supply and Sewerage Corporation (AUWSSC) was formed in 2006 (transformat...
In Africa, out of the 350,000 handpumps installed, on average 35% is not working; some 150,000 handp...
Fallowing three decades (before the Bone conference) political unrest and civil war, Afghanistan fac...
Presented during the USCID water management conference held on October 13-16, 2004 in Salt Lake City...
Afghanistan has five major river basins which four of them are transboundary and shared with Iran, P...
Although a lot of effort and initiatives have been put in place, the issue of functionality of hand ...
As the equipment builder of the team, I was responsible for building the treadle pump, the sand filt...