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Community-Driven Water Resource Management (CDWRM)

Community–Driven Water Resource Management (CDWRM) Experiences from the SADC Region Jonathan Chisaka. Community-Driven Water Resource Management (CDWRM) This approach has been pilot tested in five SADC countries, supported by SADC Regional Water Sector Programme/DANIDA Malawi

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Community-Driven Water Resource Management (CDWRM)

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  1. Community–Driven Water Resource Management (CDWRM)Experiences from the SADC RegionJonathan Chisaka

  2. Community-Driven Water Resource Management (CDWRM) This approach has been pilot tested in five SADC countries, supported by SADC Regional Water Sector Programme/DANIDA • Malawi • Mozambique • Namibia • Swaziland • Zambia

  3. What is CDWRM? • An innovative participatory, demand driven approach to rural water supply and management. • Builds capacities of communities to develop and manage their water resources • Improves access to water for multiple uses

  4. What is CDWRM - ctd? • Improves the livelihoods of the rural poor • Contributes to all eight millennium development goals directly and indirectly

  5. A seven-steps processwith all stakeholders Communities: • high-quality articulation of needs, planning and implementation Intermediate level, esp. local government: • responding to the needs National level: • supporting the response

  6. Initial phaseby support agencies within a project framework (funding, period, area)

  7. Initial phase - ctdby support agencies

  8. Planning phaseby communities, with facilitation

  9. Planning phase - ctdby communities, with facilitation

  10. Planning phase - ctdby communities, with facilitation • Matching prioritized activities and budgets • Specifying actions, roles and responsibilities • Technical feasibility studies • Selection service providers and contracts • It is important that communities know the budget!

  11. Implementation phaseby communities, with facilitation

  12. Access to water from multiple sources for multiple uses

  13. Participatory monitoring and evaluation • This is a continuous process, it presents opportunities to learn from the process • Monitoring infrastructure operation and maintenance • Monitoring livelihoods impacts • Envisioning new improvements in community-driven water resource management

  14. Lessons learnt • Communities are always willing to manage their water resources, they only lack capacity. • Involvement of communities in the planning process in important. • Local leadership’s involvement in the process contributes to effective. management of water resources.

  15. THANK YOU!

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