Thinking through pathways for scaling up mus

1. Thinking through pathways for scaling up mus Honduras

2. Background • RASHON – resource centre group • Government agencies (SANAA, FHIS, ..) • NGOs • CBOs • donors • Programme of collaboration with IRC on decentralised WASH services delivery

3. Background • Some interest in multiple use services • Impact on sustainability • Sceptic on promoting mus • Seminars to introduce the topic • With tecnicos, engineers and field staff of SANAA, FHIS and NGOs • At University • Mapping status of multiple use services • Identifying way forward

4. State of mus • Mainly piped systems with households connections (gravity-fed; some groundwater) • 5-10% served by family wells with rope pumps • Relatively-well organised sector • Particular attention to supporting sustainability

5. State of mus • De facto multiple use, leading to various problems • Unauthorised connections • Over-use • Unequitable distribution within systems • Local conflicts over water resources • Water quality (chlorination) • Accepting the needs for multiple use, but concerns over sustainability • What can be done to facilitate multiple use, in a sustainable manner, in existing systems? • What are implications for the planning and design of new systems?

6. Approach to scaling up • Principles: • Distinguishing between new systems and support to existing systems • Sector approach; strong role of government • Learning approach

7. Approach to scaling up Sistematization of state of the art at community level Awareness and advocacy at national level Defining implications for design of new systems Defining implications for support to sustainability • Community of practice: • Documentation, • Lessons learnt • Sharing Capacity building at decentralised level Piloting